Had I the opportunity to initiate first contact with an alien species but was limited to a six second video, what would I put into that vital six seconds?
My first thought would be to show video of the ocean and a human caring for marine life in some way, then switch to plants and land and show a human watering a plant and another caring for an animal and then for a child. I would want to establish in the minds of the aliens, if only just vaguely, that humans are the dominant life form on the planet Earth and we take our job as caretakers seriously. In this way I would be able to indicate that while we are not naturally a warlike species, we will protect our planet, thus covering my bases whether the aliens turn out to be hostile or not. But if the aliens are half observant, upon arriving on earth they would quickly realize that this is not an accurate representation of our species and may be overly skeptical of anything else we tell them. So in order to gain a trusting relationship with this new alien species, it would probably be simpler to just send them a six second compilation video of as many people as I could fit waving at the camera and saying "hello" in their native language. This way, no matter which country the aliens happen to land in, they know how to say hi and can make their own observations and judgements about humanity.
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