When* someone finds the disc, comes to take a look, and finds a perfectly smooth planet laminated in a layer of microplastics - will they be able to appreciate our legacy or will 99% of our assholeness be lost to history??

many decades* in the future, no need to panic, space is vast

Rip, Jane Goodall, may your existence goodwash humanity's reputation in space forever.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Omg, that's kinda what i thought. Nature pictures are super cool, but no picture of how we treat nature in general. No garbage island. Even back then, what defines a lot about humanity is war and treating each other like shit. I don't see a point in making us look like a perfect and great species, when we're clearly not. If anyone ever finds this, it's gonna be so far and so long, that it doesn't matter.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree, but I just wrote that for fun, actual alien consciousness would be just that, alien - prob not like (most of) Star Trek where species are kinda the same with suspiciously vast common grounds.

The concept of assholeness is extremely even Earth species specific.
From proper sci-fi, idk, maybe how our minorities will make decisions (in self-interest) that are not in the best interests of the species would be frowned upon ... but not eg even genocide, that's (why it's bad) is valid in our context, our situation).

For what it's worth I'm glad that stuff about our planet & ecosystems is in there/out there too, not just about some humans.
Well, that, and radio waves with shitty TV series & commercials/propaganda.

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