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A dinosaur skeleton in a spacesuit.
The truth is out there
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.
Yes, but now I regret not going for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference.
As you should.
:P
Huh, TIL, thanks
No problem. Philosophy can be fun! ^_^
That manhole cover from Operation Plumbbob.
Russell's Teapot.
A radio station streaming "Baby Shark" on all frequencies
Possibly the most appreciated song on earth.
Son of a-
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 giant ship that can transform into a giant robot maid, complete with a vacuum to suck planets' air.
It went from suck to blow!
"YOU ARE HERE" map.
Everything is already in space. Also, whale songs
Arts and Humanities research.
A paper floating in space that reads 'Probing the 'Other': Conceptions of Zipzorpian-Terran Relations in Early Explorer Narratives'
A lone white lawn chair on the surface of Mars
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
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.
Dark matter, duh.
A very small probe that emits an impossible to miss signal at random pretty long intervals and then adjusts its orbit to be very different. It would basically pretend to be various Aliens civilizations trying to contact us. Like every 45 days a new signal from a new part of the sky is picked up and then never repeats and if were just getting tons of messages at once. And since the probe is small and doesnt have a predictable orbit it would be very hard to figure out that its actually a probe and then find it.
Alternatively. A plane full of snakes.
TMA-2 / Zagadka / Big Brother (the Jovian monolith).