A dinosaur skeleton in a spacesuit.
The truth is out there
A "Voyager" type spacecraft with a Golden Record but with contents depicting a civilization of Cats in Mars, and the Space Craft + Golden Record are made from materials from Mars. Put this in orbit around Mars, and have it emit a signal on loop with an Arecibo Message depicting the Cat Civilization.
The scientific community would just collapse and we'd be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.
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-Sincerely, totally not a cat
The scientific community would just collapse and we'd be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.
You're a couple thousand years late on this one
A teapot in orbit around the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars.
Or a vase of petunias and a blue whale skeleton?
Actually, I think they were referring to Russell's Teapot.
Russell's Teapot.
That manhole cover from Operation Plumbbob.
A radio station streaming "Baby Shark" on all frequencies
Possibly the most appreciated song on earth.
Son of a-
A giant ship that can transform into a giant robot maid, complete with a vacuum to suck planets' air.
It went from suck to blow!
Gonna steal an idea from Karl Pilkington and leave a dishwasher somewhere on Mars for one of the rovers to find.
Maybe even an older model.
Bonus points if it was a popular model in a science fiction show.My take of that would be the station from the little martian from Looney Tunes in the full 3D cartoon style.
Sort of like a cell shaded structure in a realistic lighted environment.
A lone white lawn chair on the surface of Mars
"YOU ARE HERE" map.
A single protein molecule.
Something subtle enough to spark debate and controversy but not overplaying it like putting an entire living thing from Earth would be.
Everything is already in space. Also, whale songs
I'd suggest 35,000 low-earth-orbit satellites but Elon is already working on that.
Arts and Humanities research.
A paper floating in space that reads 'Probing the 'Other': Conceptions of Zipzorpian-Terran Relations in Early Explorer Narratives'
Sprinkle some water on the moon
Moon sized amoeba.
Call it The Amooba.
Ghosts
NASA: Oh you guys are back early!
Astronaut: Moon's haunted.
NASA: What?
Astronaut: grabs gun and gets back on ship Moon's haunted
Life. Soemthing like massive jellyfish living in the middle of space. Nothing around them, no atmosphere, no oxygen, no water, no light. Just massive jellyfish-like creatures "swimming" through the vacuum of space.
Dark matter, duh.
TMA-2 / Zagadka / Big Brother (the Jovian monolith).
