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What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If aliens ever do come across the Pioneer spacecraft and make assumptions about the entire human species based on the man and woman etched onto the plaque it carries, this is what they will think of us: We all look like white people; we all look about 30ish years old; we do not wear clothes. It's a problem you encounter anytime you have to choose a few individuals to represent an entire group, and it's one that the editors of Wikipedia have debated for years: What image should grace the top of the "human" entry in the online dictionary?
The photo that's there now, after years of feverish debate, is of an Akha couple from a region of Thailand along the Mekong river. "The photo of the Akha couple remain humanity's type specimens on Wikipedia," writes author Ellen Airhart. "Just as a shriveled northeastern leopard frog at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology represents its whole species, so this couple stands for all of us."
Such musing about the taxonomic representation of the human species could actually have a big impact on our digital future. "Future scientists will have to teach computers, not aliens, to recognize the human image. Right now, software engineers program artificial intelligence to recognize people by feeding them millions of pictures of faces," she writes. "But whose faces? Computer scientists run into the same questions about gender, race, and culture that the Wikipedia editors encountered. Being able to use more than one photo expands the conversation but does not necessarily make it easier."
The photo that's there now, after years of feverish debate, is of an Akha couple from a region of Thailand along the Mekong river. "The photo of the Akha couple remain humanity's type specimens on Wikipedia," writes author Ellen Airhart. "Just as a shriveled northeastern leopard frog at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology represents its whole species, so this couple stands for all of us."
Such musing about the taxonomic representation of the human species could actually have a big impact on our digital future. "Future scientists will have to teach computers, not aliens, to recognize the human image. Right now, software engineers program artificial intelligence to recognize people by feeding them millions of pictures of faces," she writes. "But whose faces? Computer scientists run into the same questions about gender, race, and culture that the Wikipedia editors encountered. Being able to use more than one photo expands the conversation but does not necessarily make it easier."
a 'Boot on a face'. It sums up most of history marvelously.
How will we ever know what humans look like without Wikipedia?...
A photo of one of the survivors of Auschwitz (day of liberation).
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It's not about you. It's not about inclusion. It's just a stupid picture and not important.
Stop categorizing each other and creating divisive conversations all because you expect life to be fair. Stop getting upset because your color/ethnic background isn't getting the spotlight. Your pride is causing all of us to fall.
Move on with your lives and concentrate on doing something important.
Not like me wasting my time commenting on this post.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Make it a painting of Adam and Eve, the archetypes of humanity (according to the old testament anyway).
...but then I realized that this staggeringly important issue would keep dozens of SJWs distracted and bickering amongst themselves for months, and the rest of the world will be better off as a result.
A fat, unemployed white male nobody sitting at a keyboard editing a wikipedia page.
We're bipedal, have two arms with five fingers each, a mouth, a nose, two eyes and two ears and our species has two sexes.
The proportions are also about accurate for most of us.
I think that's enough for first contact information. I mean where does it end? Do we need to tell them our social structures and capacity for empathy and destruction as well?
I'd think those are info bits for a second or third contact...
We can make the next plaque with black or Asian people, I don't care.
Most people in the world are Christian.
A photo - image of Homer Simpson
The Vitruvian Man to be more specific.
The man on the pioneer plaque was supposed to look African and the woman was supposed to look Asian. However, after years of exposure to cosmic rays and micrometeorites, I'm sure the aliens will believe we have acne and pits all over our bodies.
. . . .that reads:
"Stop sending us naked pictures of yourselves and directions to your home planet. It's ***CREEPY***. . . . ."
(evil grin)
Everyone involved seems to be tackling this question as if we're assuming we must make the right selection in case aliens read it and judge us or something like that. The fact is that the only living creatures that will bother to read it are humans, and the only function of the page is to describe what humans are, which every human reading it will already inherently understand, therefore the picture serves no purpose other than maintaining wikipedia consistency. Given it's useless nature, it deserves nothing more than a completely random arbitrary selection.
Well, I think the Thailanders photo works OK. (Forget about ethnicity for a moment: Their clothing and context imply a pre-industrial way of life that was dominant throughout human history but now is diminishing rapidly!) However I would have more likely have suggested a recognizably African couple. My reasoning: Humans originated from Africa, and it still holds the greatest genetic and cultural diversity of any region. People elsewhere in the world are offshoots from that root.
A picture with the words "Mostly Harmless" with a crude drawing of a Human and sector they reside in, that some interns in one of the Ursa Minor corporations did on a late night.
"what they will think of us"
Indeed, the species that killed of 90% of the other species.... And we're worried about our selfie
if they use that asian couple, then what about the people's of other ethnic origin? why not a panoramic (extra wide photo) showing several couples of various ethnic origins to capture the diversity of humanity
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Skip the picture and post dna. Let aliens replicate humans wherever that might be.
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Just use a stick figure.
The poop one.
I tend to rant.
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Why do we require one image to signify humanity on wikipedia? The pages for cats, dogs, birds, bats, spiders and fruit all feature composite images of the many species represented in one image. Why would the page for humans be any different? Indeed, the page goes on to show many examples of humans.
Am I missing something here?
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Hoping the aliens interpret the weird etched lines correctly, they'll see two individuals with two arms, two legs, one head each and come by to get further details about such strange animals.
If they misinterpret, they'll see the head of the one of the left is between its legs, and ask why the one on the right has such big eyes towards the upper end. They'll also wander why the one of the left has its ciliated antenna at a right angle - ask if it was caught while feeding, or if it's a reproductive organ in aroused position.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
This would be perfect seeing as we have so many of them..... :)
Humanity is good and evil, only portraying one side of our nature is pure bias.
Smart, handsome, and leader of the free world.
Plus, if there is any intelligent life out in the universe, by definition they won't be libtards.
Norman Rockwell's The Golden Rule
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Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
1) A human running in a hamster wheel
2) A human running on a treadmill with a fishing pole tied to their back chasing a carrot dangling out in front of them
Oh wait that's just for the United States (disclaimer: I'm American). Ok, we need one for the United States and one for the rest of the world. For the rest of the world, it should be a dove circling the planet.
We'll make great pets
Or Caitlyn Jenner. Anyway, sure to confuse our alien overlords.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
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If it can hire a lawyer and win the case, it is a human.
This will get more important when we start to do weird shit with genetics and AI.
Being able to use more than one photo expands the conversation but does not necessarily make it easier.
I think using a bunch of photos would easily solve the problem of conveying what humanity looks like as a whole. The photos can show people of every visibly different racial background, at every age, in various states of health, and in various types of clothing or lack thereof. Any aliens whose social structures are at an appropriate level of advancement, and/or close enough to those of Man, will be able to extrapolate from that info and would recognize our species, should they ever see us in person. A similar set of photos should also be enough to train AI to recognize humans.
Now, if the purpose of the 'conversation' is to determine how to explain humanity to aliens, (or to AI), then we'd best start by explaining us to ourselves. I'd say that, as a species, we are a long, long way from understanding ourselves and each other. I don't think more pictures will help us much in that endeavour, and they certainly won't convey our essence to either an alien race, nor to an AI.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Whichever race is the most prevalent. That would be Chinese I guess.
Just take any winner of the world press photo - it will most likely portray conflict and suffering.
Feed a computer algorithm millions of pictures of people, as diverse as possible, and let it then generate what the average human looks like.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
"Why not directly take a freaking Chinese couple since they represent 1/5 humans on earth?"
They did. They look golden, because it's a golden plaque.
Or perhaps the aliens will think we're transparent.
A Tide Pod.
I agree but someone will probably complain about which continent is visible... maybe an image with both halves showing or something?
Goatse
Isn't that how superior male humans greet potential new mates these days?
A scull and cross bones or some other symbol that means death or toxicity
A snake eating its own tail
As the most financially most successful human he should be represented as the best of our species.
But as an orange colored hipster version of Kim Jung with a shitty comb-over and a neck beard. Speech bubble: "Go 'way! 'Bate'n!" Pick any female guest that's ever been on The View and give her a thick nose ring and shave half of her head. Speech bubble: "All men are evil! Lana Del Rey is #1. Why am I still single?" Place a generic smart phone between them, each holding a side of it instead of directly holding hands because otherwise that would be sexual assault. The tabs on the cell phone's screen are open to reveal Facebook, Tindr, and Instagram are running; it's symbolic because they always are no matter what you do. Both dating profiles say "bisexual" not because they actually are, but in protest for gay/transgender rights as brainwashed and guilt-tripped by their ethics professor. Each are peeing in the same urinal and wearing #blacklivesmatter tee shirts while standing on the Rebel flag. And if you look really carefully, like you're finding Waldo, you can see Putin pointing and laughing his ass off when he's not too busy snap chatting or tweeting his "friends" during protests like every young person all over the world does now. Bumbling moron playing Pokemon Go gets hit by a car. Cop gets blamed for it and it just makes them all a little worse with more excuses for surveillance and "probable cause" while tricking normal citizens into thinking it's for their protection as opposed to passive and active biometrics collection vulnerable to God knows who while the top counties around the world fall apart. This is why aliens don't visit or at least don't let us know about it. "We're here because of Elvis, cheeseburgers, and fuel. After that, we're getting the hell out of here." It might not be the world as a whole in taking account of our history, but that's where we are right now and what evidence we will leave behind if we got wiped out tomorrow.
...if Aliens look to Wikipedia for anything.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
A rotten potato painted to look like the earth.
The only reasonable (imho) approach would be a photo-mosaic with hundreds or thousands of pictures. First let's talk life-cycle: pictures of some specific individuals at birth, 2, 8, 16, 25, 50 and 80. Getting nude photos, without cosmetics, without markings or piercings or other ornamentation (or surgical interventions) would be challenging, to say the least. Just getting informed consent would be difficult - perhaps if photos weren't released until after their last (year 80) shot, then it would make things easier. Then there would be the reproductive cycle. I suppose some no doubt pornographic shots of an aroused male and female, of the same in coitus, of the woman just beginning to show, of the woman at term, and in labor as the child crowns - and not to forget breast feeding at say birth and age ... 2 ? 4? Then we'd need some showing us doing various physical things - weight lifting, running, walking, swimming, jumping, high jumping, rock climbing, dancing (speaking of dancing, we'd definitely need shots of the human herds we call crowds (especially large stadiums and religious events). ...) and living arrangements and ending up with some ancient and some modern "wonders" of the world - the Great Wall, the Pyramids, Burj Kalifa and other architectural wonders, Moon landing, Mars rover, Earth (at night) from space, people living and working in the Antarctic, in the dessert, at extreme altitude, in rain forests, on lakes, in cities, in suburbia, in ghettos, in tents on the plains, on farms, on communes, in caves,...
We'd need some showing the variation in adult height and weight and skin color, musculature, skeletal stucture, bearing, etc. (especially facial characteristics). Then we'd include various clothing and ornamentations (tatoos, piercings, rings,
That is the way the world is going.
Any healthy adult members of H. sapiens will do, since they are biologically interchangeable. If you object to one member over another on racial grounds, it simply means that you're a racist.
It has to either be goatse or dickbutt.
Have a picture of Thor Bjornsson, "The Mountain" from Game of Thrones. No one will invade us then. BTW, it would help if /. allowed me to type his name properly.
In the interest of PC, the Greendale Human Being http://communityshow.wikia.com...
Every end has half a stick.
Because we'll never actually agree on how we should live our lives, run the world, or care for the planet. The only way we would completely mix is through conflict and most likely in a very violent, artificial manner.
A red circle with a slash through it...
Has anyone recommended Dickbutt?
I nominate Dickbutt
what about this image says "White people"?????
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#/media/File:Pioneer_plaque.svg
There is nothing there that says WHITE!
You fucking people are so racist it astounds me!
There is no continent visible in the pale blue dot. Anyone who claims they can tell what continent is facing the camera is full of it.
a set of female and male skeletons, or a pizza because everyone who isn't a fucking weirdo or contrarian douche likes pizza.
The obvious choice
Right now, software engineers program artificial intelligence to recognize people by feeding them millions of pictures of faces," she writes. "But whose faces? Computer scientists run into the same questions about gender, race, and culture that the Wikipedia editors encountered."
At least that problem will solve itself as soon as the training set grows to 8 billion pictures.
bickerdyke
it's a fine image of agricultural workers and not some fucking corrupt politicians. You couldn't ask for more really.
You hid your real question in another question. Computers don't 'learn' and they won't ever 'think', so you don't have to worry about it, so forever shall it be. Eventually the hype of smart algorithms (I refuse to use the post-pubescent misnomer, 'AI') will recede, and they will be repositioned accordingly. As far as aliens go, I doubt we will have visitors from space within any of our lifetimes.
There is no continent visible in the pale blue dot. Anyone who claims they can tell what continent is facing the camera is full of it.
They don't have to be able to tell which half is showing to "know" one half is being discriminated against.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.
We all look like white people; we all look about 30ish years old; we do not wear clothes.
You forgot to include that we are also quite athletic and not obese, and do not have pubic hair.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
So two pictures describing basic anatomy of humans are not "inclusive enough"
Yet if ethic variations were provided you can bet your ass people would be calling it racist.
It's the same bullshit as this "hu-person" nonsense. In most regards, when you see the term mankind, it's referring to HUMAN, not males. Go back to your little boxes, there are no safe spaces in the real world, fully expect to be butthurt. Learning how to deal with that is called LIFE
So many people have their heads firmly lodged up their ass that it sums up humanity quite nicely.
That said, no image is better than a single misrepresentation.
The images created for the plaque were explicitly not intended to look like "two white people", and the female figure definitely has an Asian look to her. They both look a trifle pan-ethnic, given the level of detail.The dude's hair? Well, you do have a point there.
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An enormous pile of steaming feces, covered in flies.
Western: should be the waaaambulance sound.
It should be Goatse.
...fighting over something trivial.
What with people editing things to fit their agendas all the time.
When you go to the wikipedia page, it takes a picture of you and puts it there to represent the whole humanity. That way you can feel special and represented. Because that's what's important in life.
nuff said
2 stick figures holding hands.
The ugly things are biased. Did you make the shoes you wear, do you come up with the equation to power your lights at night, nice burger, must have been an nice hunt.
In the end, objectively we are actually working together greatly
That explains the Mass Effect. Speaking of representative images, how about the small community somewhere in East Africa, who happen to have the most varied genome of the whole human race? Their faces have all kinds of ethnic characteristics written on them.
We could just have it be top down towards the North Pole with people laughing in igloos and riding snow mobiles yelling "wheeeee!"
We'll make great pets
ba-a-a-a-a-a-a...
Though you're probably right on that, can we maybe lie and say that due to the low light, photos like this require longer exposure times (this is true) and it took a 12 hour exposure so both sides of the planet got photographed?
A giant pile of shit!
It will contain, or be nothing except a negro(es)
Everybody poops
A gigantic asshole
Flood the scene with a diverse set of folks having a good time.
Think like a CocaCola commercial.
They have already solved the problem from a variety of angles.
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If ever there was a perfect case for an obligatory XKCD, this is it!
Show stick figures.
thats what i think of when i think of humanity!
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
The people in the picture can't be ...
White, because that would be racist.
Male, because that would be sexist.
Heterosexual, because that would be heteronormative.
Fully able, because that would be ablist.
Young, because that would be ageist.
Wealthy, because that would be classist.
Fit, because that would fat shame.
That may be leaving out a few restrictions, but basically a couple poor, old, wheelchair-bound, obese trans lesbians would best represent humanity based on today's standards.
Maybe all those non-white 90 year olds in three piece suits should have launched a spacecraft then ...
Though you're probably right on that, can we maybe lie and say that due to the low light, photos like this require longer exposure times (this is true) and it took a 12 hour exposure so both sides of the planet got photographed?
Hey, now there's an idea! Just say it was a 24 hour exposure so it evenly imaged the entire planet.
From the article, "... then nominated Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as a candidate for the top image (among other, more generic, suggestions). Wales consistently wears clothes in pictures and during public appearances."
I guess there's a philosophical term for that, but the principal function of humans seems to be the production of more humans.
That would cover the male half.
It needs to be a photo gallery, not just one representative picture. Include pictures of male and female, young and adult, from countries all over the world. Our species is too varied to have just one pair from one part of the world representative of all of us.
Alternative solution: Like the Voyager golden record, use a generic, line-drawn representation of male and female humans.
Alternative solution: Use morphing software to 'blend' images of male and female humans from all over the world into one homogenous pair of images.
My overall theme here, if you aren't getting it, is that it must be inclusive. This MUST NOT become a political issue!
A DNA helix. A X-Ray diffraction pattern of a DNA Helix seems just fine too (even better, science, math is the universal language. Not sure a image made for our eyes, will be interpretable for an aliens but I am sure about the X-Ray diffraction pattern.).
https://imgprod60.hobbylobby.com/sys-master/migrated/hde/h71/h00/9120365412382/1129832_1[5].jpg
This says everything.
Incipiamus, fratres, servire Domino Deo, quia hucusque vix vel parum in nullo profecimus.
Right now I'd say a crying baby is probably the most realistic representation.
Please, proceed with arguments over what color the baby should be.
-Styopa
I don't know of a single child who's been trained to recognize humans by being fed a million faces. I also don't know of a single child who can't recognize any human face -- black, white, healthy, disfigured, old, young, or partial.
Same goes for my dog, by the way. i don't need to see every fish in order to recognize a new fish as being a fish. Fins swim. Grade 9 science was "how to read your fish".
AI is certainly artificial, but the "intelligence" part is being taken far too literally. More intel isn't any classic definition of intelligence.
The day your AI can recognize a human based on features, and not based on templates, then maybe you'll have crossed the line into what we actually call intelligence. Psychology, not computer science.
You know, two eyes (or one eye and a patch, or sunglasses), a nose (broad, narrow, broken or bleeding), a mouth (open, closed, grinning, or covered).
I don't think it's difficult to recognize a "mouth". Whether it's human, canine, iguana, or worm. A human face has two eyes, one mouth, and a nose between them. Any kind of mouth, any kind of nose, any kind of eyes. And any of those four features can be covered, damaged, open, closed, or concealed.
You don't have an AI capable of identifying a mouth. Therefore, you have nothing.
Let me know when your AI can recognize a mouth on 90% of lizards and mammals and cartoons. Then we'll talk about AI taking over the world.
You don't have image recognition. What you have is visual pattern matching. Humans don't do visual pattern matching, just like humans don't walk around a table by using calculus. We don't walk by knowing the length of our legs. We don't drive by knowing precisely how far away the next car is. We don't use lasers.
We see through blizzards, fog, rain, ice, and sun. We don't need perfectly clean lenses to do so.
I'll say it again. If your AI needs to be fed more than 100 examples of something, then it isn't learning shit. And if it needs to remember those examples, aggregated or otherwise, then again it isn't learning anything at all.
Two eyes, a mouth, and a nose between them. You need to identify four features in relative proximity. Start there.
Plain and simple, a representation of our DNA.
We should speak to the goals of humanity, not necessarily how humanity currently appears.
I suggest the number 1, represented by a line of 'stars' on a black background.
Something to represent the ideal of unity of our species, and demonstrate understanding of the common source of all life and all things.
"Come on over, our parents aren't home!"
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
a cock
If the asians were just a tiny intelligent, they would do whatever they could to REDUCE their numbers
Actually if they were intelligent they would reduce YOUR numbers given you could sustain two of them for the resource consumption of one of you.
Nothing hard about this... just take some stock photo that tries to represent multi cultural ethnicity in several age groups.
If it needs to be a single individual, it'll probably need to be, by average, a male chinese poor guy.
There's no way around this. You either go subjective, which then the image could be just about anything, or go objective, which would tie the image to statistics.
A 7 foot pansexual 256-gendered dwarf with green hair who has consensual sex with children and animals.
As a synesthetes, I have always seen the concept of humanity as red. The flag of Nippon should do nicely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#/media/File:Flag_of_Japan.svg
"What is this, an interstellar restroom stall?"
Stick men.
They should just put a picture of me up there and be done with it.
Problem solved.
Trump! Why? Weâ(TM)ve reached (arguably since the 70â(TM)s) critical mass of a-holes and idiots. The universe needs a clear warning...
How about something basic, like Adam and Eve holding hands?
"Hi, my name is Chris Hansen and you're on "To Catch An Alien...""
Second, the Pioneer plaque is very simplified line art. Except for being able to say that neither being represented has an afro as is common among African and African descended peoples, claiming a specific ethnicity for either one is an exercise in projection by the viewer. To me, the couple looks like the main might be Hindi or Pakistani, the woman could be anything from Mongolian to Hawaiian. (I am small-m metis but can easily pass as white because "white" covers so many ethnic backgrounds) Being mere scratches on a gold plated piece of aluminium, there is no skin/eye colour information AT ALL. Nor is there enough detail to clearly say if an epicanthic fold is present on either person. (BTW: epicanthic folds are not uniquely Asian) While I'm at it, let me mention the fact that ethnic groups as we recognize them, are not hard and clear distinctions. Humanity is more like a spectrum, with ethnicities occupying overlapping areas of that spectrum.
Third; overall, this article and the questions it raises feel like a subtle attempt to politicize a subject that should be considered above politics. Who should represent Humanity for machine learning? The answer is "Use ALL of us!" There is no need to force a selection of some sub-set of humanity when doing this. Use as many images as you can to teach the machines. Any time and place we need to use a single example, like men's rooms, space probes etc, just use simplified line art like the Pioneer plaque does. (the team behind that plaques design knew the political ramifications of choosing a specific and identifiable ethnicity, so did their best to come up with the most general, simplified example they could.)
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That's what they all want after all.
- An imprint of hand into concrete.
Because what can represent us - as a modern humanity better? Many animals have bigger brains, legs, hair... but human hands?
And yes, to avoid all those left/right/gender/gay/lesbian/age/color/hue/IQ/size/DNA/wealth/... controversies, to appease all people of all the colors of the rainbow and invisible light spectrum and... The hand must be an imprint of a hand into something characteristic of our civilization - concrete - that way nobody will be able to say who's hand was it.
So I therefore propose THE IMPRINT OF HAND IN CONCRETE because it characterizes us the most and it has a clear upgrade path to robotic Hand 2.0 imprint in Mars' dust. Who can beat my proposal? Ha! :-D
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
This
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My choice is the Japanese comedy DVD cover: Haaaan! - Maiko haaaan (great cover)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://i.imgur.com/XFKP6.jpg
Obviously. Go Human Beings!
Everyone knows it should be J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
Since we're collectively acting like a giant asshole, but yeah, the output of said asshole could be an acceptable image as well :)
Why would aliens be unaware of the idea of genetic and cultural differences? If an ET probe crashed on Earth and there was a plaque showing a couple of the typical Grey aliens with specific features ,I wouldn't assume they were all identical. I'd go "okay that's generally morphology", I wouldn't go "oh this one's eyes are a bit narrower here so it can't be a Grey."
If Wikipedia folks want to be anal retentive, they can create a composite human form from their picture database.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Ooh we need to include this race... Ooh don't forget that gender! I feel offended if the picture shows this! I will hack the site if it doesn't show that! The picture is too white! The black girls is more to the side than the white man! Bah.
We should include picture of Jimmy Wales. He founded Wikipedia, he may as well be the face of humanity on his own site. Preferably not naked, but if he insists...
What is best in life? Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
This might be something it is good for.
I mean, c'mon, easy. It's where we all come from, no matter what race color or creed!
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
I'm confused. The sketch of the humans is an outline etched onto a gold foil, right? Where does anybody get "white" from that?
It is the perfect representation of the glory of humanity -- a committee of human beings decided to create something like that.
Talk about disruptive courageousity.
So you'd be seeing drowning polar bears, ice sheets on land reflecting the sunlight and wide stretches of dark seawater soaking up the sunlight and warming. Maybe someone replacing the drive belt on their snowmobile on a sunny afternoon.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
A human body with one testicle. The average.
To the original author: Have you ever looked at the images which are included on the Golden Record? Your base premise is ridiculous if you have. Maybe before you make a post like this, you should do a little fact checking. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-on-the-golden-record/ Get your information from a credible source, instead of 80's Sci Fi movies.
...like yo momma.
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Da vinci's drawing. Man in a circle.
https://goo.gl/images/39tcws
Can't beat perfection.
A crystalline object.to metamorphism into. The human is both pragmatically and philosophically seeking to be with the crystal object. In fact, this very topic exposes just how desperate we are trying..
He is crazy if you think about it; I am not.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfLmbJz1Gys/SD8GSGZj7_I/AAAAAAAABek/tSiy3jsfqTA/s1600/fling-web1-small.jpg
Here's 2 possibilities - in hopes of thwarting any malevolent beings:
http://media.wizards.com/image...
http://www.donaldmeme.com/temp...
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
By the time the next probe is sent out, the world's majority will be muslims. So the symbol voted to be sent will likely be the flag of islam.