You're given the chance to send one singular piece of media to aliens. what do you pick to make the best impression?
You're given the chance to send one singular piece of media to aliens. what do you pick to make the best impression?
or to make the worst impression ig
Any media in any format, sequels not included.
Imagine being the first human to Rick Roll another species.
58 1 ReplyMy neighbor’s dog rolls his eyes at you
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my good answer is the wikipedia page for human
by evil answer is the wikipedia page for the dark forest hypothesis
29 0 ReplyMore evil answer: The page on Junko Furuta. Them aliens packing up and leaving after reading that fucked up shit.
7 0 ReplyPerfect
2 0 ReplyRofl the perfect stfu
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We've kinda done this already:
The Golden Record from the Voyager missions.
My personal pick, however, is the SCP database.
28 4 ReplySCP
The Sane Clone Posse?
10 1 ReplyWell the other posse might give a bad impression
4 0 ReplyWhoop whoop, let's keep this on an even keel!
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That is a collection of pieces of media though, op asked about a single piece.
2 0 ReplySend more Chuck Berry.
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Backdoor Sluts Vol. 7
"Mlorp, how do these beings even manage to procreate? This one is using the incorrect orifice, and this one removed his genital proboscis moments before copulation was complete!"
"Let's leave them alone, Floop. They will extinct themselves shortly."
19 1 ReplyI would send them a song letting them know I'd never gonna give them up.
15 0 Reply"aw what a nine gesture, we shall relay this to the galactic federation on all channels"
7 0 ReplyThe way you say that makes me wonder what their fediverse must be like.
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And that you'd never let them down.
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The music video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
15 0 ReplyOn a gold disc.
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I send Independence Day and to tell them it is a documentary. Now they know not to fuck with us.
15 1 ReplyRather they know not to fuck with us while running Mac OS 7.5
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That one fucked up hentai comic... I wanna give them mental distress as a leg up in the war between them and us.
10 0 ReplyThat one fucked up hentai?
Oh you sweet summer child...
17 0 ReplyAnd yet, I know the one they meant...
3 0 ReplyYes, that one. I know there are others, but you know exactly which is the one I'm referring to.
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Buddy, you're gonna have to clarify. It's a broad field.
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A badly trained LLM.
Let them ask whatever they want of it without any way of verifying if what it says is correct.9 0 Replykind of a Rorschach situation
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Any episode of Ancient Aliens.
8 0 ReplyStar Trek: The Next Generation
7 0 ReplyDarmok, S5E2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
7 0 ReplyI think one of those nice Attenborough documentaries. Wasn't there one that showcased the Earth? Seems like a nice gesture to put that forward.
6 0 ReplyI wanna send them a copy of FF8!
If you're familiar with it, you'll get what kind of impression it might give.
6 0 Reply“You mean to tell me this species’ moon is just full of monsters, and it ejaculates them onto the planet in regular intervals? And they don’t really do anything about it?”
4 0 ReplyYep! Wait until you can see what my sword does.
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A recording of 4'33".
5 0 Replyzip bomb
5 0 Replyall aliens use tar.gz archives sorry
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Smarter people have already figured this out. I'd send them a copy of the golden record we put on Voyager. It contains the kinds of things that could convey "this is where we are, this is what we look like, we've figured out about this much of this universe so far, and we make stuff that isn't utilitarian (art)"
6 2 ReplyA 3.5 inch diskette full of some random stuff.
I still got lots of them somewhere in some box, so I won't miss it.
I don't miss the Aliens either ;-)
4 0 ReplyThe Anarchist Cookbook.
because it would be funny
5 1 ReplyIED and molotov touting naked aliens is a new mental image for me.
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Idiocracy packaged as an accurate history of the most powerful species on the planet.
4 0 ReplyAnything from Carl Segan.
4 1 Reply4 1 ReplyI’m sharing this with everyone! This is great.
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I'm sending them heavy metal. (Da movie) I don't think it would be the best or worst impression, but it would be so worth it to see how aliens react to that shit.
3 0 ReplyThe Tropic Thunder DVD commentary
3 0 Replyi wonder how aliens would take sarcasm:
life in plastic, it's fantastic~
bonus wholesome:
4 1 ReplyDrinking from cups
4 1 Reply?
5 0 ReplyDrinking out of cups? With the seahorse, seashell party?
2 0 ReplyNot me. No way! Not my chair, not my problem.
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My fart in a jar
4 1 ReplyMarvin is that you?
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Maybe Avatar: the last Airbender (animated series, obviously). Wholesome (overall), and maybe they'll think we all have powers.
3 0 ReplyBuckaroo Banzai.
2 0 ReplyI guess Paper in itself is a pretty neat invention.
2 0 ReplyAll of dragon ball z. Everyone should watch dragon ball z.
2 0 ReplyA star map pointing them to the other side of the galaxy.
2 0 ReplyNope, detailled 3D starmap with our solar system clearly standing out.
If you're gonna curse a planet then do ours at least.
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The Twilight Series books and DVD sets.
2 0 ReplyA collection of Nanowar of Steel official videos, with a bonus Gloryhammer - Gloryhammer so they know we're srs bznz
2 0 Reply2 0 ReplyA Serbian Film
2 0 ReplyFirst episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
2 0 ReplyMonty Python-Holy Hand Grenade
2 0 ReplyNGL, what first came to mind was the Tripods. That probably fits under "worst impression".
1 0 ReplyHelp, by The Beatles.
1 0 ReplyThe series ‘Connections’ by James Burke https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf02uWXhaGRng_YzH-Ser_VEV4lGSLX_1
1 0 ReplyWAP by Cardi B. I wanna see their faces.
4 3 ReplyI too would welcome extermination of the human species by aliens.
5 0 ReplyBecause of a mating display? That’s cold.
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I scrolled this far only to realize no one said “hawk tuah”
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