Hey Pandas, If Aliens Came Tomorrow, What Human Invention Would You Show? (Closed)

The television set. I read an observation in a book years ago about how vicariously watching people participate in sports, travel, friendships, and life in general on TV had replaced doing these things ourselves. The author went on to say that the popular pastime you rarely saw on TV was people - you guessed it - watching TV. If I were to introduce invading aliens to television, one of two things would happen. Either they would get so fascinated and engrossed in watching TV that they would forget about taking over, or assume that humans are a bunch of idiots posing no threat to the universe, and leave us alone. And I say this as someone who probably watches too much TV.

Anime and dogs

DNA & CRISPR

I would take them to a toy store

I'd show them that Tom Scott video about why aliens should *avoid* having anything to do with humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPqk-O-fD4

Beer! They will never be the same....

Chocolate covered marzipan. It’s the best food ever.

There is nothing that humans have accomplished that would at all impress aliens. I'd apologize for the state of our
world. Explain humans are still barbaric and can't respect other peoples beliefs. And only ask if they were going to obliterate our world, that it be fast and painless.

Sliced bread. Has there been a better thing since sliced bread?

Nukes and our willingness to absolutely burn this planet down to a radioactive wasteland if they try to do something funny like colonization, slavery or just exploiting the ressources.
Because let's be honest, they probably already have archieved what we have nowadays and would be amused to see how happy we are about our "most impressive" technologies.

After that some art though - pictures, music, movies, video games etc. from all over the world and eras

I'd show them our greatest mistake: the mirror. Before we could see ourselves clearly, we judged our appearance from the reactions of our communitiy, and didn't compare our looks with others. Once we got into the habit of judging our appearance for ourselves, we soon learned to ignore the views of others regarding our character and conduct, and community and society died.

I would show them those funnels they sell in Japan for women to pee standing up. Because it's the dumbest thing I could think of, and I'm guessing a society that can traverse the cosmos has already figured out books, the mass communication, quantum computing, sliced baked goods, indoor plumbing, etc. But I bet they haven't thought of making a device as stupid as that funnel.

A jack-in-the-box. da doo doo da doo da doo doo da do... POW!

The stupidity of social media, and how nefarious underground sites are.

Telescope, see what we see, be glad we didn’t find you first

The mute button and the off button on a remote.

My old cat Botan would get so frustrated and cry when the laser dot wouldn't catch in his paws so I quit using the laser pointer to play with him. I concluded that it was mental t*****e, but I would have no compunction in using it on an Alien! Hehehehe

I would introduce them to and encourage them to wear bullet-proof everything.

My video games collection! Show them all rhe masterpieces: See here, this is Pac-Man... And Donkey Kong, it's awesome... And Space Inva...NoNoNO, it's not what it looks like! This is a misunderstAAAH!

Pizza 🍕