4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
If you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
Help. That’s it, that’s all I’d say
Probably just send them the encyclopedia brittanica
the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
Nah, it’s 22 GB for just the current English version, text-only Wikipedia. Adding the media English current version only would be 140 GB (plus the 22 GB for the text). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
So you could do text-only Wikipedia and probably compress it. Maybe drop a few thousand of the articles that don’t matter or are stubs. Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.
Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.
Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn’t the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?
A few years ago (~2010) I had the entire German Wikipedia on my 8gb iPod touch. It was only about 4gb in size without media.
So you send them text that they can’t read?
I don’t think you appreciate how much text you can fit into 4GB. The first entire gigabyte could be dedicated to various means of translation and explaining our language system, and you’d still have a 500 million words left after that.
You can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
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I would first find some big names from the demo scene and say “I am not worthy, let these folks do it” and anyone who disagreed would have their frontal lobes severed or something.
This, in its original form, was 4kb.
So, none of us are worthy. Unless one of you is on Lemmy.
Edit: this one is 1kb lmao. None of us are worthy.
Can you tell me a little more about these? What is the “demo scene,” how were they made, and why were they made?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
It’s as rad as it could possibly be.
Wouldn’t be surprised at all if anyone from that scene lurks on lemmy.
A link with a cracked Minecraft client and an ip to join to a small server to chill with that alien.
Technically you can probably send a bunch of links, like Wikipedia etc. He “just” needs to access to it, which may or may not breach the 4GB rule.
Damn, what a cheapskate. A chance to play Minecraft with a friendly space alien and you can’t even pay for a legit copy. Probably going to give that alien a computer virus and doom us all. Don’t put this guy in charge.
Can agree with that, but I wanted to save the alien from having a Microsoft account.
You’ve got a point. On second thought, maybe a different game would be better.
Or just Wurstclient so he can play cracked
Nah, they’re going to give the alien an Alienware !
Why do you assume the alien has access to the internet?
No reason at all. Of course probably the aliens won’t have access to the interwebz, but playing Minecraft with an alien sounded funny in my head.
It won’t breach the 4GB rule, but even the closest star to Sol would have at minimum latency of 4 years.
Yeah that’s true.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.
I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
(I’m on mobile otherwise I’d add a picture)
It’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method
So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered (emphasis on 'considered') ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an species of great apes. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.I would probably include an apology for using FAT32 and insist that we’ve made better filesystems since then.
rickroll at 8k for however many seconds that is
Rick rolled until the heat death of the universe
The warning “This species destroys anything it encounters, turn around, save yourselves, warn the universe”. With as many before and after images of destroyed habitats and extinct creatures that would fit in the rest of the 4GB space.
Hell I’d love that pitch for a tv series
I am sure a TV series would get destroyed.
In_the_end.exe from limewire
I’d send a small note saying “Please take me away from here.”
“Stay away” with various methods given to understand the meaning of the words (images, signs, numbers, sounds, etc)
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