What an interesting comic. I hope I’m not ruining the joke by talking about it, but to paraphrase Marge Simpson, I just think it’s neat.
So first, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some museum out there that actually has a display like this today.
An alien looking at this display might think that it’s interesting how the same creature dressed differently and used different tools at different times. But a human would look at this, see the cell phones as a joke, and think how different we are today from the other displays.
But realistically, the alien’s perspective is more correct. Humans haven’t changed all that much. In the grand scheme of things, our technology and culture has changed a great deal, but the humans living in that culture and using that technology would fit right in if they were born in the time of the spear wielding display. There are some changes, but we’re pretty much the same creatures.
Not ruining the joke, I appreciate reading dissections like this! Makes me wonder if we would still be able to interbreed with Neanderthals or other hominids if they were still alive. There’s definitely people around that would be up for getting freaky with them.
That depends on how often they came back to collect samples…
Butt samples?
One might call it a menagerie.
