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At that rate, just make sure it's part of the human genome :)

noizejoy 5y ago
Or maybe a bit more likely to survive longer: cockroach genome or tardigrade genome :-)
jodrellblank 5y ago
Short story where SETI programmers turn new message hunting code on archived files and it detects a message in the human genome rather than in radio signals from the cosmos: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html ( https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story-alien-message-encoded-in-dna https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story... )
- xelxebar 5y ago
  By the author of autoCAD no less! Thanks for sharing this. You have enriched my day.
- takinola 5y ago
  I really wish someone would make a good sci-fi movie around stories like this. No space lasers or wormholes, just high concept stories
  - sam0x17 5y ago
    Never, even in video games they always have to throw a fantasy element in :/
  - 7thaccount 5y ago
    You might like the "man from earth". It isn't exactly what you've described here, but it's a great movie. The entire thing takes place as a conversation amongst a group of friends where they extrapolate out on somebody's seemingly crazy assertion.
  - jodrellblank 5y ago
    This feels like it might fit a series like The X-Files or The Outer Limits more than a full movie; there isn't much more to it than the twist; aside from that it's a story about some people. If you don't mind them being shorts, there are some good sci-fi stories on the Dust and Omeleto channels on YouTube. e.g. this "One Minute Time Machine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY - has just two people, a bench, and a Time MacGuffin. Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwKExagzdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwKExagzdQ - "The Tunnel Ahead", 15 minute short set in an overpopulated world. I do feel that many include space because it's fun and can be CGI modelled, or time travel because it makes for a cheap sci-fi plot, and if you rule those out you get things like The OceanMaker ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCGK4nneeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCGK4nneeU ) which I didn't like so much because nothing really happens. Whether there are more concepty ones with more nuanced plot, they probably didn't catch my eye to watch.
- c-oreills 5y ago
  Comic with a similar twist: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/ http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
barkingcat 5y ago
what if humans go extinct in the next 300 years?
pronlover723 5y ago
like in ST:TNG where it turns out there's a piece of code in the DNA of all the humanoid species that together form a message from the civilization that seeded them
- 7thaccount 5y ago
  Great episode. A two-parter I think.

Or maybe a bit more likely to survive longer: cockroach genome or tardigrade genome :-)

Short story where SETI programmers turn new message hunting code on archived files and it detects a message in the human genome rather than in radio signals from the cosmos: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html ( https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story-alien-message-encoded-in-dna https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story... )

xelxebar 5y ago
By the author of autoCAD no less! Thanks for sharing this. You have enriched my day.
takinola 5y ago
I really wish someone would make a good sci-fi movie around stories like this. No space lasers or wormholes, just high concept stories
- sam0x17 5y ago
  Never, even in video games they always have to throw a fantasy element in :/
- 7thaccount 5y ago
  You might like the "man from earth". It isn't exactly what you've described here, but it's a great movie. The entire thing takes place as a conversation amongst a group of friends where they extrapolate out on somebody's seemingly crazy assertion.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  This feels like it might fit a series like The X-Files or The Outer Limits more than a full movie; there isn't much more to it than the twist; aside from that it's a story about some people. If you don't mind them being shorts, there are some good sci-fi stories on the Dust and Omeleto channels on YouTube. e.g. this "One Minute Time Machine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY - has just two people, a bench, and a Time MacGuffin. Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwKExagzdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwKExagzdQ - "The Tunnel Ahead", 15 minute short set in an overpopulated world. I do feel that many include space because it's fun and can be CGI modelled, or time travel because it makes for a cheap sci-fi plot, and if you rule those out you get things like The OceanMaker ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCGK4nneeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCGK4nneeU ) which I didn't like so much because nothing really happens. Whether there are more concepty ones with more nuanced plot, they probably didn't catch my eye to watch.
c-oreills 5y ago
Comic with a similar twist: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/ http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/

barkingcat 5y ago

what if humans go extinct in the next 300 years?

pronlover723 5y ago

like in ST:TNG where it turns out there's a piece of code in the DNA of all the humanoid species that together form a message from the civilization that seeded them

7thaccount 5y ago
Great episode. A two-parter I think.