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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A "Voyager" type spacecraft with a Golden Record but with contents depicting a civilization of Cats in Mars, and the Space Craft + Golden Record are made from materials from Mars. Put this in orbit around Mars, and have it emit a signal on loop with an Arecibo Message depicting the Cat Civilization.

The scientific community would just collapse and we'd be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.

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-Sincerely, totally not a cat

[โ€“] seaQueue 13 points 1 week ago

The scientific community would just collapse and we'd be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.

You're a couple thousand years late on this one

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A teapot in orbit around the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars.

[โ€“] Tagger 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or a vase of petunias and a blue whale skeleton?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually, I think they were referring to Russell's Teapot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but now I regret not going for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

As you should.

:P

[โ€“] Tagger 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

No problem. Philosophy can be fun! ^_^

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A dinosaur skeleton in a spacesuit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The truth is out there

[โ€“] slazer2au 20 points 1 week ago

That manhole cover from Operation Plumbbob.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Russell's Teapot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A radio station streaming "Baby Shark" on all frequencies

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Possibly the most appreciated song on earth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A giant ship that can transform into a giant robot maid, complete with a vacuum to suck planets' air.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It went from suck to blow!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gonna steal an idea from Karl Pilkington and leave a dishwasher somewhere on Mars for one of the rovers to find.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe even an older model.
Bonus points if it was a popular model in a science fiction show.

My take of that would be the station from the little martian from Looney Tunes in the full 3D cartoon style.
Sort of like a cell shaded structure in a realistic lighted environment.

[โ€“] jordanlund 9 points 1 week ago

"YOU ARE HERE" map.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Everything is already in space. Also, whale songs

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arts and Humanities research.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A paper floating in space that reads 'Probing the 'Other': Conceptions of Zipzorpian-Terran Relations in Early Explorer Narratives'

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A lone white lawn chair on the surface of Mars

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Call it The Amooba.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Life. Soemthing like massive jellyfish living in the middle of space. Nothing around them, no atmosphere, no oxygen, no water, no light. Just massive jellyfish-like creatures "swimming" through the vacuum of space.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'd suggest 35,000 low-earth-orbit satellites but Elon is already working on that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sprinkle some water on the moon

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A single protein molecule.

Something subtle enough to spark debate and controversy but not overplaying it like putting an entire living thing from Earth would be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Dark matter, duh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

NASA: Oh you guys are back early!

Astronaut: Moon's haunted.

NASA: What?

Astronaut: grabs gun and gets back on ship Moon's haunted

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TMA-2 / Zagadka / Big Brother (the Jovian monolith).