If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 53 points – 12 months ago

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So you send them text that they can't read?

I don't think you appreciate how much text you can fit into 4GB. The first entire gigabyte could be dedicated to various means of translation and explaining our language system, and you'd still have a 500 million words left after that.

You can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.

So they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?

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