On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 10:44:48 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 14:30:48 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:41:14 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:

What spoilt it for them was the "Let Them Eat Cake" inscribed in huge, solid
gold lettering above the entrance.

So they *did* panic.

Panic? Was that a question? Relevance? FTL aliens would, by definition, be far too advanced and technically sophisticated to fear anything we [shrieking apes] could possibly manage.

It was a reference: the large friendly letters were saying the wrong thing.

John Savard