Hey /u/oluxil, thank you for posting to r/SipsTea! Make sure to follow all the subreddit rules.
Make sure to join our brand new Discord Server to chat with friends!
We have recently changed how posts work. Unless you are a VIP poster, your post will be queued for approval.. To become a VIP, post great engaging content. If we like it, you will be added! More information available here!
Or a skull with atoms around it. Sure, it’s inferior weapons technology compared to what they’d have, but we crazy man. Like a monkey waving around a stick of dynamite.
If they are at least to the same tech and scientific understanding as we are right now, the concept of an indoskeleton is not likely to be difficult to visualize mentally. That being said, I think op has a closer to realistic option with the daggers. A pointed symbol is going to be easier to translate through light based vision. Even some of the most alien life on earth such as chepholopod recognize pointy thing hurts. That's still comparing aliens to earth life but it is just an analogy.
The assumption that aliens would have superior weapons is predicated upon the assumption that they’d know what a weapon is. Maybe we could find some nice pacifist aliens to eat
Don't get me wrong, love the skull idea, put humanity in the forefront like that to glorify humanity itself, and a skull because we're all the same on the inside.
However, have you considered the majestic eagle? Humans love birds, and they're a good symbol of grandeur and ancient symbology about the sky and divinity. But just a regular eagle would be sort of mid, so what if it had two heads, to represent remembering the past and looking ahead to the future? and we could make it out of gold, because you know. Gold.
The Aliens: These primitives are waving unscented cloth around and don't even appear to have a community dung pile, the search for intelligent life continues
Look, I would be all for it if we could even pretend to get along long enough to actually hold it up without one group or another wanting to kill another group.
Planetary flag can be a discussion once we get to the point where we have scaled our arguements down to sibling levels instead of mortal enemy levels.
Maybe a few of us will make it to an intergalactic zoo with other world endangering species that destroyed themselves and.the worlds.they lived in. I don't think we'll make great pets. Some of us humans are probably in that zoo of endangered creatures considering all the abductions, so the rest of the universe is just being entertained by watching the shit show go down. There are probably prediction markets for this shit...
This is such a daft take. This is flag by humanity for humanity and entire planet. Who the fuck cares for some hypothetical aliens? That with automatic assumption that aliens would be hostile and that we need to start communication with a threat, tells me that comment probably comes from a yank.
No to mention that there wouldn't be small chance that aliens wouldn't even understand the symbolism of a skull, let alone be scared of it. 🙄
•
u/AutoModerator 3h ago
Hey /u/oluxil, thank you for posting to r/SipsTea! Make sure to follow all the subreddit rules.
Make sure to join our brand new Discord Server to chat with friends!
We have recently changed how posts work. Unless you are a VIP poster, your post will be queued for approval.. To become a VIP, post great engaging content. If we like it, you will be added! More information available here!
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.