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I would love to read a story about aliens finding the records and trying to decode them. Personally, I find the image encoding impossible to understand.

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There was a reddit post today showing the picture of the naked humans and the quasar map to earth... the caption was - maybe the reason aliens haven't contacted us is that we sent unsolicited nudes and directions to our house.

A related, but slightly different take:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/monkey

Googled, but couldn't find the cartoon that showed an alien family (looking every bit like Ward Cleaver's family) looking at the Pioneer plaque while one of the alien children says, "They look like us except they don't wear any clothes."

Maybe an old Scientific American or issue of OMNI magazine....

Isn’t that what the whole first Star Trek movie was about? It created a miscommunication, to say the least.

There was also a great original series episode with a similar plot, in which Spock performs a Vulcan mind meld with a machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(Star_Trek:_The...

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