Back on ART, during one of our strategy sessions for Plan A: Get the Hell Out of Here, Thiago had pulled some research about how so many of the known alien contamination sites were underground, were uncovered via construction or mining or exploratory digging. The idea was that maybe the contaminants were hazardous material the aliens had been disposing of, and they hadn’t expected any body to come poking into the ground in those places. So that was even less intentionality and even more bad luck. I don’t know why that’s objectively better than ancient aliens out to get us. (How would that work? "We’re dead, but we’re taking you hapless fuckers who might wander by thousands of years later with us, ha!" Yeah, I don’t think so, either.) But it is better, weirdly enough. Shit happens, basically.