The Downside of a Supernova

A little over a week ago, we saw a supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy. That's pretty cool! But…

This is the part that worries me. Lousy Canuck writes this (emphasis mine):

This discovery was sheer serendipity — Berkeley just happened to be observing the Pinwheel Galaxy in the Big Dipper when a star now dubbed PTF 11kly went bang. Over the first three nights it’s already become twenty times brighter. Since this is the closest supernova we’ve ever been able to observe with modern-ish equipment, this unprecedented event has essentially put all hands on deck for observation. The Hubble’s being pointed at it now, and pretty much every earth-bound telescope too.

All our telescopes? Seriously???

You know they've been waiting for this. Waiting, patiently, for years, until something happens, something that makes us point all our telescopes in the same direction… away from them.

Yes, you heard me. Them. The fucking aliens. Nobody's looking for them right now. They're going to invade, and we won't even see them coming.

{I thought this would be a good idea for a short story, but writing a blog post is easier. Besides, I think someone's already written a story about aliens invading.}