If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send? (lemm.ee)

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[-] Zellith@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

asl?

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine sign language would be much less information dense than text, as it would have to be pictures. And they may not even understand the sign language.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think they meant "age/sex/location?" which was a common first question when getting to know someone online when instant messengers as a concept were novel

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

18 f cali

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