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The aliens aboard oumuamua saw JavaScript and kept going.

You need to install like 60 npm packages just to enter LEO, can’t even imagine how painful it is to configure a landing.

Muhahaha... Thanks JavaScript, you ruined extraterrestrial encounter.

Or maybe it saved us from annihilation :)

Aliens brought us Lisp years ago; and they are pissed that we still don’t use it :)

They knew we were already doomed, so they didn't bother. On the other hand, maybe some benevolent aliens will see it as the distress signal it is...

Because it wants to annihilate us :)

No it's the CAPTCHAs that are the problem.

The could always use a robotic arm