if you could pick one person to represent all of humanity...

[?????]

What if we find them. OP didn't say aliens found us, so now were just talking hypothetically. So then hypothetically we would be superior.

[YPrrrr]

I'd like the aliens to see this man and say: "Here is the embodiment of human spirituality and community turned into an activist momentum. Here is what makes the humans good, brings them together and gives them purpose without mindlessly killing each other."

Let's face it; if there are aliens we make contact with, they will be technologically superior to us, and thus capable of blowing us up if it's clear that we're a rabid bunch of apes.

They might not hold gandhi on such a high platform. Non-violence could be interpreted as weakness rather than inspiration depending on their priorities as a culture. I doubt an alien race would have avoided killing their own race at some point in time anyway even though that's just speculation

If the aliens used radio waves to communicate, or in fact any sort of wave, we would pick it up if they were in any reasonable distance. They're are no such signals, thus they gotta be far. To assemble a group of ships, detect us, and fly here would take a lot of resources and planning, as well as interstellar engines and fuel techniques that we don't have. Their superiority is a necessity of contact, until we get our own ships properly up and running.

We could find them sometime down the road as well... They haven't made contact with us yet so who's to say we're not currently in the frontrunning for this contact?

[Samus Aran]

They haven't made contact with us yet

or have they?

[YPrrrr]

or have they?

Actually we made first contact when "one small step for man" crushed the entire population of microscopic moon people who had gathered to greet the visitors, thus becoming one large genocidal step for moonkind.

The government covered it up

[?????]

or have they?

dun dun dun
The world may never know. What if we are all perceiving different realities, and none of this will matter. And n the end we awaken from cryogenic freeze and return to our bretheren in utopia.

[Samus Aran]

or maybe we'll just die idk

[?????]

or maybe we'll just die idk

No there must be something behind this elaborate illusion, if you don't understand you're ignorant. I hope you're not ignorant and that you understand. Now if any have I offended speak now.

[Samus Aran]

i actually don't believe that this is our only "life," i was just joking

[?????]

Yeah I wasn't being serious either. Did anyone catch the Julius Caesar reference..

[Skylark]

timothy leary or ghandi or bjork

[Socks]

ghandi is fucking overrated

[Geno]

ghandi is fucking overrated

Yeah I don't see why everyone thinks ben kingsley is such a good actor. He's such a .

[the shortest route to the sea]

bjork

"Greetings, Earthling."
"Hæ!"
"What are the ways of your people?"
"Well, we're all terribly terribly moody. Then all of a sudden turn happy. Human Behavior!."
"I see. How long has your civilization been around?"
"We have been dabbling outside the mountain for quite some time."
"And how has your society evolved?"
"By fucking in rhythm and sorrow."

I could see this going on and on and on and on. Even if the aliens would push the big red button on us, it'd be worth it to have this clip.

[Nyerp]

Actually we made first contact when "one small step for man" crushed the entire population of microscopic moon people who had gathered to greet the visitors, thus becoming one large genocidal step for moonkind.

The government covered it up

No, Neil Armstrong's FOOT covered it up!!!

[Skylark]

"Greetings, Earthling."
"Hæ!"
"What are the ways of your people?"
"Well, we're all terribly terribly moody. Then all of a sudden turn happy. Human Behavior!."
"I see. How long has your civilization been around?"
"We have been dabbling outside the mountain for quite some time."
"And how has your society evolved?"
"By fucking in rhythm and sorrow."

I could see this going on and on and on and on. Even if the aliens would push the big red button on us, it'd be worth it to have this clip.

it's perfect.
one celestial being greets another