or to make the worst impression ig
Any media in any format, sequels not included.
A recording of 4’33".
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
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)”
zip bomb
all aliens use tar.gz archives sorry
I guess Paper in itself is a pretty neat invention.
Drinking from cups
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Drinking out of cups? With the seahorse, seashell party?
Not me. No way! Not my chair, not my problem.
That’s what I say.
The music video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
On a gold disc.
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 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.
My fart in a jar
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
Darmok, S5E2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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.
Anything from Carl Segan.
Maybe Avatar: the last Airbender (animated series, obviously). Wholesome (overall), and maybe they’ll think we all have powers.