You're given the chance to send one singular piece of media to aliens. what do you pick to make the best impression?

(⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 67 points –

or to make the worst impression ig

Any media in any format, sequels not included.

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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

More evil answer: The page on Junko Furuta. Them aliens packing up and leaving after reading that fucked up shit.

We've kinda done this already:

The Golden Record from the Voyager missions.

My personal pick, however, is the SCP database.

That is a collection of pieces of media though, op asked about a single piece.

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."

I send Independence Day and to tell them it is a documentary. Now they know not to fuck with us.

Rather they know not to fuck with us while running Mac OS 7.5

That one fucked up hentai comic... I wanna give them mental distress as a leg up in the war between them and us.

That one fucked up hentai?

Oh you sweet summer child...

I wanna send them a copy of FF8!

If you're familiar with it, you'll get what kind of impression it might give.

“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?”

Yep! Wait until you can see what my sword does.

A recording of 4'33".

I think one of those nice Attenborough documentaries. Wasn't there one that showcased the Earth? Seems like a nice gesture to put that forward.

A 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 ;-)

Idiocracy packaged as an accurate history of the most powerful species on the planet.

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)"

Maybe Avatar: the last Airbender (animated series, obviously). Wholesome (overall), and maybe they'll think we all have powers.

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.

The Twilight Series books and DVD sets.

I guess Paper in itself is a pretty neat invention.

A collection of Nanowar of Steel official videos, with a bonus Gloryhammer - Gloryhammer so they know we're srs bznz