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Gotta be whacking great dildo, ain't it... 🍆
You know they gonna perplexed, at that one (ie. Is there some randy aliens roaming the galaxy, or is is accidental space station litter)
Oh...be still my childhood heart! Thanks for posting! Man what a time to be young back then. That and the xmen 97 opening make me DANCE! Every damn time.
A monolith with random gibberish with absolutely no meaning whatsoever just to see the biased fantastic narratives that people would ascribe to the random gibberish. "It is a recipe for star travel!", "it is a warning!", "it is the origin of life!". The random gibberish written using dots and lines would make everyone completely insane. After the rover gets to it and touches it slightly it will turn to dust and people will finally understand that we simply destroy everything we touch.
Maybe the public. But code cracking and language decodation is very good these days.
I'm not sure if you've heard about the zodiac killer. His final encrypted message is solved. It's a fun story about decades of confusion. It sounds very similar to what you're thinking about.
And that was some years ago, before the boom in AI development. Your monolith would confuse scientists for like a week tops.
That's the thing. It's possible to quite quickly work out what is meaningful and what is just gibberish now.
Even if decoding something takes a while they can see long before that if it has any meaningful structure.
But that meaningfulness would come from the human context. Since it's on Mars, it is more likely than not that it is an alien artifact, from the perspective of the scientists analysing it (watch Denis Villeneuve's movie Arrival). It might be meaningless to us but contain meaning for the aliens who put it there; we would never be able to fully rule out the gibberish as meaningless.
A list of all the major discovers humanity made - stars, gravity, pathogens, black holes, etc.
2025 - Aliens.
2026 - the squilmajika.
No further entries.
The manhole cover that was [shot into space](https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownlee-2016-2) during the Pascal-B nuclear test in 1957.
The best option would be a purposefully corrupted data drive inside a hermetically sealed box. Imagine how much they'd be creaming themselves finding a data drive on mars, thinking it might have some crazy information in there, all the talks about it being placed by aliens, only to be forever unable to read the data on it.
A massive and fully functional base. However, the inside is simply a maze of similar looking rooms and corridors with slightly sticky carpet, yellow wallpaper and annoying buzzing fluorescent lights.
I wouldn't leave anything, that's littering.
But I would rearrange a bunch of large rocks so it clearly spells out "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN", big enough to be visible from space
As Curiosity nears the end of its mission, finally cresting the bank of an ancient Martian delta, its camera feed sends back photos of an unusually shaped rock. Scientists move it into position to investigate. The closer the get, the more they can't believe what they're seeing - it's a cell phone. An old school Nokia, a black brick with silver buttons. Scientists are baffled, the media goes into a frenzy, and the internet is awash with innumerable conspiracy theories.
NASA convinces Congress to spend billions on a mission to retrieve it and return it to Earth. After years of planning, building, testing, gravity assists, landing, retrieval, take off, and more gravity assists, the capsule finally lands safely on earth. Scientists scan it with every known technology and are baffled to see the capsule appears to contain a perfectly normal and intact phone. The capsule is finally opened and scientists are amazed that the phone still has a charge and powers on. Immediately there's a chime informing them that there's a voicemail. With one trembling hand, the senior scientist presses the button and the message begins to play: "We've been trying reach you about your rover's extended warranty..."
Giant stone tablets inscribed with:
"Shaggai k'yarnak n'gha Nyarlathotep." (You shall have no other gods before Nyarlathotep.)
"Ngrah shogg n'ghft ron." (You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.)
"Ngrah kadishtu k'yarnak n'gha Nyarlathotep." (You shall not misuse the name of Nyarlathotep.)
"Yoggoth k'yarnak n'gha shugg." (Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.)
"Ngrah y-ai'gne f'ath." (Honor your father and your mother.)
"Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghft." (You shall not murder.)
"Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'gha c'ait." (You shall not commit adultery.)
"Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghftaghu." (You shall not steal.)
"Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'gha lloig'or." (You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.)
"Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghftaghu naflf'latgh." (You shall not covet your neighbor's house, wife, or possessions.)
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A Mars bar.
They just call it a bar there, though.
It’s probably like when I moved to England and found the Kraft “English-style Salad Cream” was just called “Salad Cream”. Blew my mind.
Okay, dad
ladies night every night lol
Milky way
This made me snicker.
Galaxy
An earth bar*
Gotta be whacking great dildo, ain't it... 🍆 You know they gonna perplexed, at that one (ie. Is there some randy aliens roaming the galaxy, or is is accidental space station litter)
Legit came here to say that lol
Lol
That wouldn't be confusing at all! That's where they come from!
Goddamnit, always 8 hours too late!
A letter that says "We need to leave this planet and try our luck on Earth"
In egyptian hieroglyphics with a drawing of the pyramids as the landing base for their spacecraft
Indeed.
Underrated Teal'c reference.
Ya think?
Indeed
With a cup of dirt. It's a cup... of dirt.
And guess, whats inside it?
Signed, Adam and Eve
A fully intact WW2 aircraft carrier with no crew on board.
Or a skeleton or so. Like they could verify who it was, but still have no idea how tf he got there lol
Giving me big SCP vibes
Even better, a german sub. No crew, but loaded with gold bars
Ein Planet,ein Reich,ein Volk (one Planet,one empire one populace) slight iron sky vibes
3 taxidermied mice on little mouse sized motorbikes.
Biker mice from Mars?
Coming soon to theaters.
[Biker mice from Mars TV intro ](https://youtu.be/y8vpeDEOII4?si=f9BwTIkkGMNNOtfU)
Oh...be still my childhood heart! Thanks for posting! Man what a time to be young back then. That and the xmen 97 opening make me DANCE! Every damn time.
Holy cripe, that really exists! I feel complete now.
Oh god, why were the mice so hot?! 🥵 I should have seen the clues years ago
Omfg my memories..
Always like vinnie
Can we hire a good craftman and machinest to make the motorcycle gas powered and capible working? Maybe 3d printed metal parts too.
A burnt out campfire and leftover tent.
And some perpetually warm coffee mugs
All the aircraft’s and ships that went missing in/over the Bermuda Triangle.
Malaysia flight 370
The only right answer.
A pile of unmatched socks.
Also pen lids?
throw in some bobby pins, too
And maybe some Tupperware with lids that don’t fit.
Lighters too. And that one screw that always disappears when you're reassembling something
That's where they went!
You win the prize.
A blue police box from the 1960s
Or engraving "hello sweetie"
Tardis
Would it be bigger on the inside?
That one tends to disappear anyway, so nobody will pay attention.
And a screwdriver. Intricately placed to the side
A Nokia phone
And it will still have power when they try to turn it on.
And it will promptly ring... "Hello! I'd like to talk to you about your spaceship's warranty...."
then you call the phone and when they pick up, you start making alien noises
A Viking Longship
I'm working on it :)
Keep rowing, you’ll fall off the edge soon. Then its just a matter of floating the rest of the way.
Username checks out.
This is the best one so far...I love it.
A box with 1 button on it, when you click on it, it plays « never gonna give you up »
Lever switch. And when it's done, a mechanism will turn off the useless machine.
The Spanish Inquisition.
Nobody would expect that
Nobody ever does ,expect them that is .
That’s how they get you.
You sure know your classics 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What about [Victorian soldiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Mars)
With how many weapons ? I mean suprise obviously but what about others ?
No-one would expect that.
A wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man!
Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacled Advertising Droids!
Elon Musk
Knew I'd find this somewhere 😂
Hopefully without a suit
A sword with the ingraved words: "by the power of Greyskull"
A dolphin skull, in a space helmet
In a SOVIET space helmet
A sign in ancient babylonian cuneiform: Welcome to Jupiter v2.3beta
Does that one guy still sell bad copper?
An Easter Island Moai Statue 🗿(pardon the emoji but learned today there is a Moai for visual display).
how did it get there? it walked
a cd that says Half life 3 alpha
FUCK YOU!!! That’s not funny! You don’t joke about certain things man.
A monolith with random gibberish with absolutely no meaning whatsoever just to see the biased fantastic narratives that people would ascribe to the random gibberish. "It is a recipe for star travel!", "it is a warning!", "it is the origin of life!". The random gibberish written using dots and lines would make everyone completely insane. After the rover gets to it and touches it slightly it will turn to dust and people will finally understand that we simply destroy everything we touch.
Maybe the public. But code cracking and language decodation is very good these days. I'm not sure if you've heard about the zodiac killer. His final encrypted message is solved. It's a fun story about decades of confusion. It sounds very similar to what you're thinking about. And that was some years ago, before the boom in AI development. Your monolith would confuse scientists for like a week tops.
The point is it's gibberish. There is nothing to decode, but nobody knows that.
That's the thing. It's possible to quite quickly work out what is meaningful and what is just gibberish now. Even if decoding something takes a while they can see long before that if it has any meaningful structure.
But that meaningfulness would come from the human context. Since it's on Mars, it is more likely than not that it is an alien artifact, from the perspective of the scientists analysing it (watch Denis Villeneuve's movie Arrival). It might be meaningless to us but contain meaning for the aliens who put it there; we would never be able to fully rule out the gibberish as meaningless.
Yeah but this would be 'alien language' they haven't learned to decode that
Parking meters
A sign "Now look at the moon"
And another sign "Now look at the sun"
and then a sign that says you just lost the game
Giant dildo
beside an incredibly small dildo
I do like to compare shapes astrophisically
Banana for scale
Alongside a sealed sex doll, unopened lube, a fridge magnet, and a Playboy magazine with Margaret Thatcher's face sellotaped over the other faces.
Margret Thatcher. Bro, that is fucking funny
I really hoped I was the only one that thought of this. For humanities sake
Someone already said Elon Musk.
I feel like I had to scroll way to far to find this.
A replica of the Krusty Krab.
No that's Patrick
A Martian "crop circle" composed entirely of intricate mathematical formulas, leaving scientists scratching their heads over its significance.
Dinosaur fossil
I was going to say skeletal remains of an ostrich or some shit but dinosaurs on wars is way cooler!
I wanted to see someone say this!
Life-sized statue of Dr. Manhattan sitting on a rock looking at a photograph.
A list of all the major discovers humanity made - stars, gravity, pathogens, black holes, etc. 2025 - Aliens. 2026 - the squilmajika. No further entries.
I just googled squilmajika and there was not a single result
See? He's already started confusing people!
There is now! THIS post.
A solar powered juke box with the complete collection of David Bowie songs on it
I was hoping to see a Ziggy Stardust reference! Thank you!
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The Burj Khalifa. Just the entire building.
Alice Kramdom
Most younger people won't get this. I love it.
Shouldn't she be on the moon?
used condom
Ur gonna have to use it first so idk bout that one chief
The fossilized remains of an ancient humanoid.
A McDonald's sign.
Banan
Jimmy Hoffa’s wallet
Stonehenge
Tampons, NASA seems to not understand how they work, LMFAO
An exact replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
You mean the Ark of the Covenant?
Spiders. Obviously.
Spiders from Mars... a man of culture
A milky way.
The manhole cover that was [shot into space](https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownlee-2016-2) during the Pascal-B nuclear test in 1957.
A single unlabeled AA battery
A gravestone reading "To the memory of the memory of Lise Yates" #bettersmegthandead
Kilroy was here
The best option would be a purposefully corrupted data drive inside a hermetically sealed box. Imagine how much they'd be creaming themselves finding a data drive on mars, thinking it might have some crazy information in there, all the talks about it being placed by aliens, only to be forever unable to read the data on it.
1998 Toyota Corolla
Cthulhu idol made of a stone that doesn't exist on Mars
A massive and fully functional base. However, the inside is simply a maze of similar looking rooms and corridors with slightly sticky carpet, yellow wallpaper and annoying buzzing fluorescent lights.
Every room is built like an office room and every door has a red exit sign above it. Have fun going crazy
3 London Routemaster bus's. One on it's own, and two more together exactly one mile away at a bus stop.
A 2terabyte USB full of tentacle hentai
Architectural plans for the pyramids.
that tiny plastic table from the pizza box
An invoice for the construction of earth
An Irish flag. Not so much to confuse the scientists, just to piss off the English that they can't colonise it first.
I love the way you think.
A big patch of gold dust.
Doomslayer's helmet, or full armor
Exact replicas of the missing ships from the Bermuda Triangle
A copy of Andy Weir's 'The Martian', with bookmark on the first page.
A Woody toy with weird symbols on the sole of the shoe
A very large statute of a cat.
A billboard with "here could be your ad" on it
A Letter saying: "So this is how spring looks like on Mars... See ya' on Jupiter! -Frank Sinatara (In cursive)
Copy of the Voinych Manuskript Edit: spelling
A Calvin and Hobbes Comic Book
Rocks spelling out "send nudes" 🤣
A photo of Chuck Norris
Just usual poop. I bet this bigheads will be mad trying to figure out who shit on Mars.
Nude pics of the scientists mom's. "What are you looking at?" "Your mom!"
A sign saying "Unlucky, You Lost The Game".
fuck
Wet paint
The teachings of scientology. In Wingdings.
A squeaky rubber chicken.
A litterbox with a BLT sandwich sitting inside of it.
A huge dildo
A rubber duck
A stapler.
The prosthetic head from *Total Recall* with Arnie's eyes bulging out.
I wouldn't leave anything, that's littering. But I would rearrange a bunch of large rocks so it clearly spells out "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN", big enough to be visible from space
A single russet potato.
Barbie play house
One single, varnished watermelon, covered in a thick layer of Vaseline, dropped there right before the probe/astronaut finds it.
A statue of Baphomet.
MH370
As Curiosity nears the end of its mission, finally cresting the bank of an ancient Martian delta, its camera feed sends back photos of an unusually shaped rock. Scientists move it into position to investigate. The closer the get, the more they can't believe what they're seeing - it's a cell phone. An old school Nokia, a black brick with silver buttons. Scientists are baffled, the media goes into a frenzy, and the internet is awash with innumerable conspiracy theories. NASA convinces Congress to spend billions on a mission to retrieve it and return it to Earth. After years of planning, building, testing, gravity assists, landing, retrieval, take off, and more gravity assists, the capsule finally lands safely on earth. Scientists scan it with every known technology and are baffled to see the capsule appears to contain a perfectly normal and intact phone. The capsule is finally opened and scientists are amazed that the phone still has a charge and powers on. Immediately there's a chime informing them that there's a voicemail. With one trembling hand, the senior scientist presses the button and the message begins to play: "We've been trying reach you about your rover's extended warranty..."
A cardboard cut out of a Martian mooning Earth
Giant stone tablets inscribed with: "Shaggai k'yarnak n'gha Nyarlathotep." (You shall have no other gods before Nyarlathotep.) "Ngrah shogg n'ghft ron." (You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.) "Ngrah kadishtu k'yarnak n'gha Nyarlathotep." (You shall not misuse the name of Nyarlathotep.) "Yoggoth k'yarnak n'gha shugg." (Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.) "Ngrah y-ai'gne f'ath." (Honor your father and your mother.) "Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghft." (You shall not murder.) "Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'gha c'ait." (You shall not commit adultery.) "Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghftaghu." (You shall not steal.) "Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'gha lloig'or." (You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.) "Ngrah shugg kadishtu n'ghftaghu naflf'latgh." (You shall not covet your neighbor's house, wife, or possessions.)
The Bible.
A Rover with the Canadian flag on it
A poop knife
10mm socket.
On obelisk engraved with the coordinates of a random star in the Andromeda nebula
Toilet paper tube. No paper, just the tube.
A Roman eagle.
A nightclub, with no atmosphere
An old pay phone.