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.
My neighbor’s dog rolls his eyes at you
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.
Perfect
Rofl the perfect stfu
We've kinda done this already:
The Golden Record from the Voyager missions.
My personal pick, however, is the SCP database.
SCP
The Sane Clone Posse?
Well the other posse might give a bad impression
Whoop whoop, let's keep this on an even keel!
That is a collection of pieces of media though, op asked about a single piece.
Send more Chuck Berry.
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 would send them a song letting them know I'd never gonna give them up.
"aw what a nine gesture, we shall relay this to the galactic federation on all channels"
The way you say that makes me wonder what their fediverse must be like.
And that you'd never let them down.
The music video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
On a gold disc.
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.
A badly trained LLM.
Let them ask whatever they want of it without any way of verifying if what it says is correct.
kind of a Rorschach situation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Any episode of Ancient Aliens.
Darmok, S5E2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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.
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.
zip bomb
all aliens use tar.gz archives sorry
A recording of 4'33".
The Anarchist Cookbook.
because it would be funny
IED and molotov touting naked aliens is a new mental image for me.
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)"
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.
I’m sharing this with everyone! This is great.
Anything from Carl Segan.
Maybe Avatar: the last Airbender (animated series, obviously). Wholesome (overall), and maybe they'll think we all have powers.
The Tropic Thunder DVD commentary
i wonder how aliens would take sarcasm:
life in plastic, it's fantastic~
bonus wholesome:
My fart in a jar
Marvin is that you?
A star map pointing them to the other side of the galaxy.
Nope, detailled 3D starmap with our solar system clearly standing out.
If you're gonna curse a planet then do ours at least.
I guess Paper in itself is a pretty neat invention.
The Twilight Series books and DVD sets.
A collection of Nanowar of Steel official videos, with a bonus Gloryhammer - Gloryhammer so they know we're srs bznz
Buckaroo Banzai.
A Serbian Film
All of dragon ball z. Everyone should watch dragon ball z.
Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade
First episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
NGL, what first came to mind was the Tripods. That probably fits under "worst impression".
The series ‘Connections’ by James Burke https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf02uWXhaGRng_YzH-Ser_VEV4lGSLX_1
Help, by The Beatles.
WAP by Cardi B. I wanna see their faces.
I too would welcome extermination of the human species by aliens.
Because of a mating display? That’s cold.
I scrolled this far only to realize no one said “hawk tuah”