10 Ways 2017 Movies Definitely Made Us Dumber

And you thought that only the best, brightest and most competent minds are sent off to outer space! But if the characters in Daniel Espinosa’s Life and Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant are anything to go by, then space travel is for the stupid too.

Since they were full of people who should really know better doing one idiotic thing after another, presumably the reason the crew members in Life and Covenant were shipped off from Earth was to get rid of them so they couldn’t pollute the planet’s gene pool with their stupidity.

Take the characters in Life. Prodding, poking and reviving an unidentified alien organism via electric shock? Probably not the best idea. Trying to kill said alien organism with a flame-thrower in the claustrophobic confines of the International Space Station? Also not recommended.

The crew of the Covenant are even worse going off course and investigating unknown planets on a whim, removing their protective helmets on said mystery planet and prodding alien eggs and actively inhaling the spores they release. There couldn’t possibly be any devastating consequences with that kind of negligent behaviour, could there?

A word to the wise: do not take the lead of the characters in Life and Alien: Covenant. If you happen to come across an alien lifeform – even a seemingly nice one like ET – do not prod it or poke it. Just leave it well alone unless you want to die a horrid death at the hands of a Xenomorph or Calvin-like killer blob.