Messages For The Future

Title : "Message to the future" *uploaded 5 years ago* Me : oh that's for me

Aliens holding the plaque up side down be like: Damn these guys are ugly

Born to late to be ground cowboy. Born to early to be a space cowboy. This is neither Rootin' nor Tootin'

Honestly though. If an alien civilization is advanced enough to grab a space probe out of the sky then it surely should be advanced enough to decipher some of this

Aliens: takes 25,000 years to respond Crush: Pathetic

After watching this, I realize that embarrassing thing I did in middle school doesn’t really matter.

That "Hello, we existed...!" line really got me somehow. Like, yeah... that's what it'd be, isn't it? "Hello... we existed! Didn't really work out, but - better luck to you guys! You can do it!" What a message to effectively leave behind...

Imagine a plagiarism bot finding your essay copied from the library of Babel

“Hello! We were here. We existed” what a chilling line.

Vsauce inspired so many kids back then, including me, into taking a science career. Truly, Thank you for putting your stuff in youtube and teaching us all.

The problem with the library of Babel is that since it contains EVERY combination of 3200 characters, the odds of finding a whole page of proper text that actually makes sense is incomprehensibly low. If we sent this library to aliens, they would probably just start trying to translate a random page that consists only of random letters and punctuation marks that don’t actually mean anything.

when you realize the whole script for the bee movie is there

Everybody gangsta till Michael says “Or is it”

This is my favorite Youtube video of all time. I have watched it so many times and I still have the urge to watch it from time to time.

Anyone else randomly remember this after YEARS? Honestly it still holds up as one of the best videos ever put on YouTube.

Message successfully receive by the aliens Aliens: its fake.

Humans: "We Existed!" Aliens: "Clickbait."

the library of babel is so unnerving. I’m a writer, and I’m able to find entire paragraphs of my own writing that has already existed untouched for years.

Every time I think about all the messages and gifts we've sent out into the Universe, I get emotional. I just imagine them traveling for lightyears and lightyears, and maybe one day arriving into the curious arms of an alien civilization who, just like us, always wondered if they were alone. And then I imagine them, excitedly, exhaustedly, trying to decipher what we've written. Decoding the instructions on the record case. Putting the record on, and hearing us. Maybe not knowing exactly what they are about to experience. But then the first sounds come through and it thrills them. Our voices, and our music and our greetings. Despite the language barrier, I can't imagine how beautiful it would be to hear such a thing after dreaming of it for so long. It is a little bittersweet, though. After translating all the information on the items, they sit back, full of wonder and excitement, and yet full of sorrow. Because they know exactly how far away these beings are from them now. They are listening to a time capsule. The thought of this has always made me cry.

Aliens arriving in 8 million years: ”Hey sorry I’m late I just got your message my phone has been acting up lately I think it’s because of the new iOS upda-“ Earth is a barren wasteland Aliens: ”Well shit.”