Given
the events of the last several months, especially in the past two or
three weeks, I would say that as a human race we are are both selfish
and helpful to others, brave and terrified (often at the same time),
foolish and wise, fatalistic and optimistic.
If
I was to send any objects on a starship going to another solar
system, I would try to include items that might be recognizable to
other species who are not like us, difficult as that might be. I
suppose if the starship was like the ones on Star Trek, there would
be a mechanism that would translate any information into the
languages used in that other solar system. If that was so, I would
want those beings to see us as as a multi-faceted people, with a
variety of approaches and interactions between each other. The
objects we send could be described and visualized through the
information that accompanies them so that, for instance, a cup would
be shown as an implement for drinking water, or at least some type of
fluid.
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