[ WP ] You sit down at a bar in outer space and you overhear an alien telling his friend why the rest of the cosmos ignored humans for so long .

I sat on the stool and ordered a space-beer, trying to ignore the stairs of the other patrons. Most humans were used to it; the subtle, or not-so-subtle, racism that permeated space-culture. But I was a flatlander; I was born on earth and used to being treated with dignity. 
 
 We were the only race in 70 millenia to develop warp travel on our own; most races were givin it by the Coalition as soon as a sample specimen could pass a basic intelligence test. But there was something different about us; something that caused every race in space to agree to keep us in the dark as long as possible. There were even rumors of some species infiltrating our governments and hindering our space program to buy a few extra years. 
 
 I would n't put it past them, but I doubt any would be willing to try it; they'd have to stand our company for far longer than they would like to tolerate. In fact, only reason I was allowed in the bar was due to the ultrablastor 90k strapped to my leg, and my UCOW license to kill. Despite this, I heard one alien mutter a snide remark to her drinking companion. 
 
 `` OMG, look at her butt. Human butts are so totally guh-ros.'' 
 
 I sighed. Buttism is the Great Evil of Space.
