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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)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can agree with that, but I wanted to save the alien from having a Microsoft account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You’ve got a point. On second thought, maybe a different game would be better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Or just Wurstclient so he can play cracked

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

Nah, they're going to give the alien an Alienware !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do you assume the alien has access to the internet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It won't breach the 4GB rule, but even the closest star to Sol would have at minimum latency of 4 years.

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

Yeah that's true.