Come one, come all to J.R's World of wonders, and prepare yourselves for the greatest marvels the galaxy has ever seen. Feast your eyes and gorge your minds on the amazing, the mysterious, and the macabre. For just one cycle, and only cycle only, we bring you the wonders of the human world. Experience humans like you have never experienced them before.

"That should be interesting." Captain Vir remarked to Krill shouldering his way through a wave of excitable aliens squeezing their way towards the ticket booth.

Above them, the booming voice projected rather impressively from a shabbily dressed man wearing a rather tatty ringmaster uniform that could well have been over a thousand years old

One of the crew members snorted, "Really, how could can it be. Everyone knows the circus is usually just a rip-off."

"That's the point of a circus." The captain remarked, "Should be interesting regardless."

Krill scuttled through the crowd after the captain and his second as they made their way up to the window and payed the fine. They drew more than a few awed looks from the crowd as they passed. Being a rather distant trade planet, the humans had yet to really show a presence in these parts, and aside from the ringleader, they appeared to be the only humans present.

Stepping through a dimly lit canvas passageway, the three slowly made their way into the large exhibition room surprised to find, a rather well put together exhibit stretching out in all directions covered from end to end in awestruck species marveling at the human wonders presented to them.

Straight ahead a stage had been erected under the lights. Bits of shattered glass littered the stage in front of a well-dressed woman seated primly on a stool. Above her a rather enthusiastic man gestured and articulated wildly

"The human vocal system is an unpatrolled marvel able to produce sounds between 85 hertz and 3 kilohertz with their hearing between 20 to 20,000 hertz. The human vocal tract uses a system of vibrating vocal folds and controlled air compression to produce sound. The human ability to recognize pitch is additionally unparalleled, with some humans having been known to possess absolute pitch, or the ability to recognize and reproduce any tone within the human vocal range." With an exaggerated flourish, the man produced a crystal glass from behind his back, "The resonant frequency of this crystal goblet is easily within the human vocal range. Now, Watch closely, and Angela here will shatter the glass using only her voice."

Around the room the crowd muttered in skepticism and wonder.

"Anyone here sensitive to the same pitch within the human vocal system is advised to cover their ears now." Around the room, the crowd shifted.

With one hand, the woman slowly lifted the glass flicking it with one long fingernail to fill the room with a ringing crystal note. Before the note faded she began to sing. It was a single tone that slowly rose in pitch to meet the tone of the fading note growing louder and louder until her voice blended with the dying note.

And then the glass shattered painting the air momentarily with a vibrant spray of rainbow light as beams of radiance refracted through the glass.

A collective gasp of awe rose up from the crowd as the woman rose to give a bow basking in the sound of adoration.

Krill turned to look at captain Vir who was nodding impressed.

The second seemed pleased as well.

"Watch yourselves," The human on stage finished, "Our scientific contacts tell me that humans could potentially use their voices to stun when provoked, so tread lightly."

Off to the side Captain Vir laughed, "They make us sound so intense, don't they."

"That's probably because humans are." Krill pointed out miffed when the humans only laughed and continued walking. He never understood why the humans didn't seem to understand just how insane and dangerous they were.

The next exhibit passed to their right demonstrating the strength of the human jaw as a pair of skulls sat studiously on pedestals to the sides.

"The human jaw can produce a bit force between 1100 and 1300 newtons. While arguably puny, consider the construction of the human skull relatively flimsy and weak compared to their closest relatives, however, scale the skulls to the same size, and the human bite force is up to 40% more effective than their closest primate relatives." The man grinned maliciously. In one hand he brandished a carrot at the crowd, "Biting through this carrot requires the same force it would take to bite off a human finger, and, might I add, some of your limbs."

Krill shifted uncomfortable as the man gave him a pointed look, before biting deliberately down on the carrot. The snap was audible over the whispering of the crowd. Krill squeaked in horror hiding behind the Captain who was roaring with laughter as the rest of the group reacted in various measures of abject horror.

Krill couldn't believe what he was seeing. He knew humans were unusual but this, this only proved what he had known.

"Did you know that the human periphery is better at perceiving motion than their fovea?" The man asked from the stage. He said all of this nonchalantly even as he tossed foam balls into the crowd. At least three customers had been blindsided by the balls before anyone knew what had happened. The fourth ball rocketed towards Captain Vir's head, and just as the object was about to strike, he jerked awkwardly to the side dodging the projectile by millimeters. His second caught it in a single hand launching it back to the man on stage, who plucked the ball from the air with nonchalance, "Blind sight is a condition where a human cannot perceive objects, but can still dodge moving projectiles despite being blind." He grinned at the two humans, "As you can see also, human ocular cues make 3D perception unparalleled designed for catching prey and accurately judging distance."

"If you want to catch a human off guard, go from behind, never the periphery"

Krill was under the impression it was best just not to mess with a human at all, but if some idiot wanted to try it, who was he to stop them.

The next hour was a mixture of marvels and wonders Krill could never have imagined.

He saw a human fold herself into a box, folding in ways that no creature should ever have been folded. The thought was painful and grotesque.

"That human has bones, right?" Krill wondered as the last of the human's limbs disappeared.

Captain vir laughed, "Yep every last one."

He would very much have preferred it, if the humans hadn't uncovered the box to reveal its glass sides, and the human folded up inside. The crowd groaned in horror as she wiggled her fingers at them from inside the box.

Captain Vir winced, "My spine hurts just looking at that."

The next man that came out demonstrated his strength by lifting two smaller humans over his head one balancing on either hand.

"The same system that allows a human to walk on two legs also allows them to balance on one foo. A human is never perfectly still, they shift towards the ground while their vestibular and motor systems work together to keep their balance. A human does not need to think about balance when walking, and barely at all when balancing."

Behind them a troop of ballet dancers rolled onto stage drawing awes of amazement as they glided, drifted and leaped around the room as if they were tied to ribbons of dancing light.

"Looks pretty, doesn't it. These ballet dancers have trained for years to dance and balance on the tips of their toes. This beautiful dance will exert a force at 10 to 12 times their body weight on the small bones of the feet. Supposing a dancer is only 100 pounds, that is at least 1000 pounds of pressure. This may be beautiful, but many of these girls will permanently damage their feet preforming this dance."

Beside Krill, one of the dancing girls flashed him a dazzling smile. He shrunk back in fear. Any creature who could smile in that amount of pain needed to be avoided.

She danced away on the tips of her toes still smiling all the way.

Hurriedly, Krill pulled the other humans across the room away from the terrifying creature.

He made it, only to be confronted with another alarming sight, "Human stomach acid can have a ph level between 1-3 ,with the ability to dissolve metal. Were a drop of stomach acid to fall on a piece of wood, it would easily eat right through. Yet, the human body contains the acid and uses it to digest food replacing the lining of the stomach completely to keep from allowing the stomach to be eaten away all together."

Krill shivered at the thought looking over at captain Vir standing unconcernedly staring at the exhibit as if he didn't understand that his body was a pool of fire and acid just raring to eat him away if given the chance.

"This makes me hungry." The man muttered absently walking past to the next exhibit. His stomach rumbled ominously in response. Krill watched him nervously expecting to see as the human was eaten away from the inside by his own digestive juices.

Of course none of that happened

Walking out of the exhibit that day krill found himself burdened with even more terrible knowledge than before.

Humans can bite your limbs off.

Humans can hurt you using only their voices.

Humans can bend themselves in half.

Humans could potentially eat metal.

And ballerinas are horrifying creatures fed by pain and nightmares.