Exceptional stupidity requires foresight, planning, and careful preparation to be properly effective. Fuzzy aliens inspired little xenophobia. Outward manifestations of friendliness were exhibited by numerous terran carnivores - prior to making the kill. Millions of miles from home is no place to go snowblind.
Comic books are dangerous to the American way of life.
A child raised on comics can't help but grow up with a questing mind, an expanded imagination, a sense of wonder, a desire to know what make things tick. No wonder our gilded conservatives are afraid of them. Every kind of drug is available on the street market. Someday someone's going to eliminate the chemical middleman. An SF story is the coming together of seemingly diverse elements.