My body in a lawn chair, with my right thumb extended out for hitchhiking, my left hand holding an American flag, and a sign in my lap saying "California or bust!"
Not a single act, but a series of actions. The rovers power down during Martian nights, right? So, during these periods, you could rearrange the rocks nearby. At first, NASA might not even pick up on the changes, but eventually, someone's bound to notice.
Imagine the buzz it would create! The scientists studying the photographs sent back by the rovers would be left scratching their heads. They'd probably first suspect some unknown natural phenomena, or even the rovers themselves, until the changes became too orchestrated to explain away. It would be a cosmic puzzle, a Martian mystery that would have them combing through data for answers.
No extraordinary or unnatural objects, just ordinary Martian rocks moved around. Instead of presenting them with an object that screams 'alien intervention,' you'd be nudging them into a mystery, all with the Martian surface's naturally occurring elements.
That would definitely fuck with NASA, i can already see Youtube Videos being made about this and their being theories and stuff. This would also be very interesting, how would the Governments react to this? How will UFO Conspiracy Theorists respond to this?
A sealed hab dome, containing a fish breeding tank that outputs a portion every so often into another tank, and a flock of penguins. There are also penguin shaped space suits mounted next to the air locks
Ooh. A small broken octagonal habitat shape with the fossilized remains of dolphin bones and dolphin shaped mechanized suits. As well as some kind of buried damaged “launch pad” that could fit a decent sized ship.
Wait… that would be less confusing and more exciting as a earths history kind of thing.
Assuming size is not an object, a pyramid; doesn't matter if it's Myan, Aztec, or Egyptian, heck make it a mix, and have it buried in a mound of dirt or in a mountain with just parts of it sticking out.
Or if we aren't going supernatural teleportation of items, I'd think something like the person who said moving rocks around, maybe lay rocks out in shapes like roads or the foundations of houses.
Why stop at spacesuit? Put lunar landing module and American flag in configuration like they were on the moon. Suggesting that moon landing was indeed a fake, and they did everything on Mars.
Something that's flying around here as well, and often. Maybe they wouldn't even realize that it doesn't belong there at first. Like a condom wrapper or a dog turd.
A pen lid with the long bit broken off, a shopping trolly token, 1 threadbare sock, a novelty rubber (eraser), and one of those black twisty wires that are used to tie up new USB cables, all sealed in a sandwich bag with 'aubergine curry' written on it in janky handwriting.
Why all this random rubbish? Because it'll absolutely screw with their brains!
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I'd get some clay, make some nonsense sculptures, then just dot them around. There'd be whole reports written on what a triangle with a dot on it could possibly mean.
Why not the Great Wall of china? Like not the exact Great Wall of China but a duplicate of it that is one to one scale. It would be clearly visible when people are looking at Mars with relatively strong telescopes so we would know it was there long before we were there
a rocket perfectly designed for the martian environment, so that the rocket doesnt destroy itself on launch like the starship prototype for one example, and for humans to return home from mars.
101 Comments
cyberian_khatru@kbin.social · 72 pts · 3y
I would draw the iconic S on the ground.
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Saturdaycat@kbin.social · 14 pts · 3y
Sometimes people just come up with brilliance, this is that moment
Kaizo107@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Man, I was gonna saw draw Dickbutt but this is better
pasci_lei@kbin.social · 25 pts · 3y
The flag of North Korea.
CallMeTHELazer@kbin.social · 24 pts · 3y
Something simple, like a bolt from one of the rovers. But make sure it's from one that has never been in that half of the planet.
Adama@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
A standard automotive bolt. Maybe something that was ubiquitous in the 1950’s but isn’t used today in place of something cheaper and more reliable
spriteblood@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
A newspaper from the day of the moon landing
deeoh@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
Better yet, my missing 10mm socket.
Jentu@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
It's always the 10mm
Link9454@kbin.social · 15 pts · 3y
An orb with a print for a three fingered hand.
simplemac@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Quaid... start the reactor...
LegendofDragoon@kbin.social · 11 pts · 3y
A copy of ET for the Atari 2600
thatdukeluke@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y
A waffle house
atocci@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y
A half-eaten tuna sandwich. By the time they manage to retrieve it for examination, it would definitely be all soggy.
BossDj@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
NSFW
CopernicusQwark@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Great for catching tigers though.
0xtero@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y
Elon Musk
Griffith@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
We could only be so lucky.
palordrolap@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I was thinking a slab of granite with "ELON MUSK; 28-JUN-1971 - 31-MAR-2022" carved into it.
TooTallSol@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y
My body in a lawn chair, with my right thumb extended out for hitchhiking, my left hand holding an American flag, and a sign in my lap saying "California or bust!"
567PrimeMover@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Shouldnt've taken that left at Albuquerque
ansik@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
Not a single act, but a series of actions. The rovers power down during Martian nights, right? So, during these periods, you could rearrange the rocks nearby. At first, NASA might not even pick up on the changes, but eventually, someone's bound to notice.
Imagine the buzz it would create! The scientists studying the photographs sent back by the rovers would be left scratching their heads. They'd probably first suspect some unknown natural phenomena, or even the rovers themselves, until the changes became too orchestrated to explain away. It would be a cosmic puzzle, a Martian mystery that would have them combing through data for answers.
No extraordinary or unnatural objects, just ordinary Martian rocks moved around. Instead of presenting them with an object that screams 'alien intervention,' you'd be nudging them into a mystery, all with the Martian surface's naturally occurring elements.
edm00se@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
The rocks change in a pattern, I swear it's a single character substitution cipher! Wait a minute... "drink more Ovaltine" what the crap?
YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
That would definitely fuck with NASA, i can already see Youtube Videos being made about this and their being theories and stuff. This would also be very interesting, how would the Governments react to this? How will UFO Conspiracy Theorists respond to this?
Varwin@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Continue to escalate the situation until it reaches a fever pitch, then stop cold for a week
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
A "Welcome to Venus" sign. Just imagine their faces, they'd be so confused...
chaogomu@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
A stainless steel commemorative plaque that says "Site of humanity's first successful time travel experiment - March 13th 2153"
syrinx20xx@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
@YolkBrushWork402 - A giant florescent dildo.
syrinx20xx@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
@YolkBrushWork402 - Or possibly Donald Trump.
SalivatingDeadGuy@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Came here to say dildo. Im on board. One giant dick for man kind.
Beardedsausag3@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find the only right answer.
h3x@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
A giant head of Lenin. It’s a red planet after all.
owiller@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
A simple message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT MARS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."
hexadecimal@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
A single horseshoe crab, naturally deceased.
szczur@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
My 1952 soviet bulgaria coin
SuburbanHaikuist@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
An altered skeleton, half buried. Give it a larger than normal skull or extra long arms or toes or something like that.
YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
That would for sure fuck with NASA scientists
MrTrono@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
A dinosaur skeleton
desqrypt@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Human skeleton would work, too.
FreeBooteR69@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
I'd put an exact replica of the NASA HQ on Mars.
Mirror_I_rorrIMG@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Haha, I was going to say an exact replica of the Curiosity rover.
ShartyWaffles@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Dildo
ReCursing@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
A sealed hab dome, containing a fish breeding tank that outputs a portion every so often into another tank, and a flock of penguins. There are also penguin shaped space suits mounted next to the air locks
Adama@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Ooh. A small broken octagonal habitat shape with the fossilized remains of dolphin bones and dolphin shaped mechanized suits. As well as some kind of buried damaged “launch pad” that could fit a decent sized ship.
Wait… that would be less confusing and more exciting as a earths history kind of thing.
JelloBrains@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Assuming size is not an object, a pyramid; doesn't matter if it's Myan, Aztec, or Egyptian, heck make it a mix, and have it buried in a mound of dirt or in a mountain with just parts of it sticking out.
Or if we aren't going supernatural teleportation of items, I'd think something like the person who said moving rocks around, maybe lay rocks out in shapes like roads or the foundations of houses.
mystiick@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
"HELP" or "SOS" in rocks would be pretty funny
ShellSurf@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
I'd put an empty spacesuit from the Apollo era.
Anarch157a@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y
Make it a Soviet space suit from the Apollo era. That would cause every politician in the US to shit bricks.
MxM111@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Why stop at spacesuit? Put lunar landing module and American flag in configuration like they were on the moon. Suggesting that moon landing was indeed a fake, and they did everything on Mars.
ArchiesDad@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
That missing sub.
morekraut@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
A German flag colored towel
Jormar@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
@YolkBrushWork402 A human skeleton.
oforgetaboutit@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Even worse: a complete neanderthal skeleton
Clairvoidance@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
a black monolith
chainsawrobot@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Ah then it is simple: we place an ESA spacecraft there.
Hawne@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
A "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
negi@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
A primitive water bucket, made of Moon minerals.
NASA: "We Found Evidence that Moon had Water, and Life!"
nerdria@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Mars bar
JustHach@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
A throne with a skeleton decked out in ancient roman clothing.
Merlu@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
peepquinox@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Stranger, yer a-trespassin’ on my dirt farm.
CynAq@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
A post with the Liberian flag attached to it.
YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Liberian Pride 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
wave_walnut@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
SOLD OUT
Poiter@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
A statue like the ones on Easter island!
crystalcorvid@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
1960's era microwave oven.
VanillaGorilla@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Something that's flying around here as well, and often. Maybe they wouldn't even realize that it doesn't belong there at first. Like a condom wrapper or a dog turd.
Manifish_Destiny@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
How about a live seagull?
CauldronCat@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
A pen lid with the long bit broken off, a shopping trolly token, 1 threadbare sock, a novelty rubber (eraser), and one of those black twisty wires that are used to tie up new USB cables, all sealed in a sandwich bag with 'aubergine curry' written on it in janky handwriting.
Why all this random rubbish? Because it'll absolutely screw with their brains!
mem_somerville_kbin@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Maybe a Roman coin hoard?
TerabyteRex@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Rick Astley
grilledsausage@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
A green 1987 Lada Niva.
szczur@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Penguin Originals: "An Epic of Gilgamesh".
PrivateBreadLoaf@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
"They will look just like you. Do not trust them."
Ragnell@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
A boat. Specifically one made for taxing through canals.
hsinner@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
A sign that says "Moved to Earth"
recently_coco@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
The Ozymandius Statue, with the exact quote from the poem.
YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
What was the quote?
Joe@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Thank you
Duchess@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
bending the rules and allowing multiple objects i think a neckbeard nest would be super funny
pjoter@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
If I would have to put it now to be discovered in - lets say- next week - black monolit from Space Odyssey
If i could put it back in time - replika of some ancient piramid with gliphs stating that human flow to Mars to help martians to build the pyramid
Xariphon@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
A Viking longboat.
1bluepixel@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I'm thinking either the golden disk from Voyager, or the puzzle box prop from Hellraiser.
rebul@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
An old rotary telephone.
Devi@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I'd get some clay, make some nonsense sculptures, then just dot them around. There'd be whole reports written on what a triangle with a dot on it could possibly mean.
duringoverflow@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
a chemical toilet
godemperorofhumility@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Pioneer 10.
Kichae@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
A Martian globe.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 3y
I would put one of those rock faces 🗿. It would make nasa think ancient tribes had space travel capability.
Xeelee@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Some Neanderthal skeletons mostly buried in the sand so that it looks like they were just uncovered by erosion
lerba@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
A hot pocket
FredOnline@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Not one, but five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers.
Bizarroland@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
Why not the Great Wall of china? Like not the exact Great Wall of China but a duplicate of it that is one to one scale. It would be clearly visible when people are looking at Mars with relatively strong telescopes so we would know it was there long before we were there
chaogomu@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
The great wall isn't visible from Earth orbit. That is a lie that's spread by, well, a lot of people for various reasons.
It would still be something to see if it was on Mars, but you'd have to see it from the surface or with a very powerful orbital telescope.
NUL@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
A few planks of wood.
keeb420@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
a rocket perfectly designed for the martian environment, so that the rocket doesnt destroy itself on launch like the starship prototype for one example, and for humans to return home from mars.
sour@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y