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I would love to read a story about aliens finding the records and trying to decode them. Personally, I find the image encoding impossible to understand.
by dandare 9y ago
I would love to read a story about aliens finding the records and trying to decode them. Personally, I find the image encoding impossible to understand.
- jvm_ 9y agoThere was a reddit post today showing the picture of the naked humans and the quasar map to earth... the caption was - maybe the reason aliens haven't contacted us is that we sent unsolicited nudes and directions to our house.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoA related, but slightly different take: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/monkey https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/monkey
- JKCalhoun 9y agoGoogled, but couldn't find the cartoon that showed an alien family (looking every bit like Ward Cleaver's family) looking at the Pioneer plaque while one of the alien children says, "They look like us except they don't wear any clothes." Maybe an old Scientific American or issue of OMNI magazine....
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- seanmcdirmid 9y agoIsn’t that what the whole first Star Trek movie was about? It created a miscommunication, to say the least.
- DonHopkins 9y agoThere was also a great original series episode with a similar plot, in which Spock performs a Vulcan mind meld with a machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(Star_Trek:_The...