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)

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[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 19 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 20 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Or just Wurstclient so he can play cracked

[-] Valeena@lemmings.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Gnorv@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 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.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

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

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah that's true.

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