Five Lies about Humanity We Should Be Beaming to the Aliens

Matt Cowan
Nov 4 · 4 min read
Photo by Quentin Kemmel on Unsplash

If you crunch the numbers, encountering extraterrestrial life seems inevitable. And if you watch movies, the chances of those fuckers invading, impregnating and eating us — hopefully in that order — are even higher. So, instead of printing what the word ‘love’ is in 18 dead languages onto golden LPs, here’s what we should be beaming out into space. And, yes, all of them are lies.

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Thanks to Luz Maupin, Bob Payne, Sean Creighton, Ben Kissam, and Christina Anaya Mortensen

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