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For me i would just place like random paintings, like NASA would be very confused on why Mars would have paintings lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would draw the iconic S on the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Sometimes people just come up with brilliance, this is that moment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Man, I was gonna saw draw Dickbutt but this is better

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

The flag of North Korea.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Something simple, like a bolt from one of the rovers. But make sure it's from one that has never been in that half of the planet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A standard automotive bolt. Maybe something that was ubiquitous in the 1950’s but isn’t used today in place of something cheaper and more reliable

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better yet, my missing 10mm socket.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An orb with a print for a three fingered hand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Quaid... start the reactor...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

A copy of ET for the Atari 2600

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A half-eaten tuna sandwich. By the time they manage to retrieve it for examination, it would definitely be all soggy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

A waffle house

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My body in a lawn chair, with my right thumb extended out for hitchhiking, my left hand holding an American flag, and a sign in my lap saying "California or bust!"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not a single act, but a series of actions. The rovers power down during Martian nights, right? So, during these periods, you could rearrange the rocks nearby. At first, NASA might not even pick up on the changes, but eventually, someone's bound to notice.

Imagine the buzz it would create! The scientists studying the photographs sent back by the rovers would be left scratching their heads. They'd probably first suspect some unknown natural phenomena, or even the rovers themselves, until the changes became too orchestrated to explain away. It would be a cosmic puzzle, a Martian mystery that would have them combing through data for answers.

No extraordinary or unnatural objects, just ordinary Martian rocks moved around. Instead of presenting them with an object that screams 'alien intervention,' you'd be nudging them into a mystery, all with the Martian surface's naturally occurring elements.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

A "Welcome to Venus" sign. Just imagine their faces, they'd be so confused...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A stainless steel commemorative plaque that says "Site of humanity's first successful time travel experiment - March 13th 2153"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

@YolkBrushWork402 - Or possibly Donald Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A simple message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT MARS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A giant head of Lenin. It’s a red planet after all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My 1952 soviet bulgaria coin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

A single horseshoe crab, naturally deceased.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An altered skeleton, half buried. Give it a larger than normal skull or extra long arms or toes or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That would for sure fuck with NASA scientists

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd put an exact replica of the NASA HQ on Mars.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Assuming size is not an object, a pyramid; doesn't matter if it's Myan, Aztec, or Egyptian, heck make it a mix, and have it buried in a mound of dirt or in a mountain with just parts of it sticking out.

Or if we aren't going supernatural teleportation of items, I'd think something like the person who said moving rocks around, maybe lay rocks out in shapes like roads or the foundations of houses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

"HELP" or "SOS" in rocks would be pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A sealed hab dome, containing a fish breeding tank that outputs a portion every so often into another tank, and a flock of penguins. There are also penguin shaped space suits mounted next to the air locks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ooh. A small broken octagonal habitat shape with the fossilized remains of dolphin bones and dolphin shaped mechanized suits. As well as some kind of buried damaged “launch pad” that could fit a decent sized ship.

Wait… that would be less confusing and more exciting as a earths history kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

A primitive water bucket, made of Moon minerals.

NASA: "We Found Evidence that Moon had Water, and Life!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That missing sub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd put an empty spacesuit from the Apollo era.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Make it a Soviet space suit from the Apollo era. That would cause every politician in the US to shit bricks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Why stop at spacesuit? Put lunar landing module and American flag in configuration like they were on the moon. Suggesting that moon landing was indeed a fake, and they did everything on Mars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

purely to confuse NASA scientists

Ah then it is simple: we place an ESA spacecraft there.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

A "Kilroy was here" graffiti.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

A German flag colored towel

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A pen lid with the long bit broken off, a shopping trolly token, 1 threadbare sock, a novelty rubber (eraser), and one of those black twisty wires that are used to tie up new USB cables, all sealed in a sandwich bag with 'aubergine curry' written on it in janky handwriting.

Why all this random rubbish? Because it'll absolutely screw with their brains!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A post with the Liberian flag attached to it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something that's flying around here as well, and often. Maybe they wouldn't even realize that it doesn't belong there at first. Like a condom wrapper or a dog turd.

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