Hypothetical continuation!
Okay, so, assuming you've beaten the aliens, you now have quite a bit of new technology and biology to analyze. What will you do now? Will you lead humanity to the stars? Will you take control over Earth permanently? Will you try to discover how psionics work? What will you do?
All of the above!
Who died and made us king?
You did, if you oppose my glorious and enlightened rule. The tragedy of our times, but necessary if we want to create the world of the future that
I we want to have.
Hypothetically, say that you're shitposting on Bay 12 in a thread started by Neonivek about a hypothetical situation, and as you read through the posts you eventually come across a scenario posted by DPRK Threadlord and sexy beast MetalSlimeHunt, where he gets all weird about the thread's purpose and acts self-aggrandizing like he always does.
How do you respond?
Mostly ignore him in favor of expounding on how I intend to pervert the most recent hypothetical to conquer the Solar System, pausing to speak self-referentially in response to the above.
I use the advanced knowledge gained from the aliens to annihilate the entire Korean peninsula, most of Indonesia, Hawaii and all the other Pacific Islands, a large portion of China, Japan, half of Australia (the shit half with nothing in it), a significant chunk of Africa, and then MSH's house in wherever he lives, just for good measure. I then lead the remaining human population into space to conquer everything in the universe. >.>
Wait wait wait, hold up a second there. People live in Australia?
Why? Why would anyone do that? Who thought that was a good idea? What led someone to thinking that was wise?
New hypothetical: you've discovered a godless, forsaken continent to the south with strange and hostile wildlife. Can you imagine any reason to colonize this barren landmass that isn't an extended form of mass-suicide? And if so, how?