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Write an epitaph for humanity's tombstone.

Go.
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Peperony and chease
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>"Yeah. We went there."
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Here lies Humans.
They never Scored.
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>writing the epitaph in English
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>>27944240

John coughed and dabbed the corners of his mouth with a dirty sleeve. "You want to know what?"

The alien caressed him gently. "We are here so that you may not be forgotten. We wish you to tell us what you would like us to tell those in the future, John, so that even though you pass now, you will never be forgotten."

John thought long and hard, but words could not come. How could he possibly create the words etched on the tombstone of humanity? He had no right, no possible right to do such a thing. What should he say? John coughed again. Pain began to work its way up from his toes. He knew what would happen now, he'd seen it happen. It would work its way up his body until it reached his heart. Most people died from the pain itself, but when it reached the heart all was lost. It was at his knees now.

He had to think and he had to think quickly. It would have to be short since he didn't have much time left. 'We died well?' No, that wouldn't work. There were so many words to describe humanity and in this dreadful moment of pain and anguish he could find none of them.

The alien touched him gently again. "Please, John, you must tell us. A race such as yours should not be forgotten."

John shook his head, tears rolling out of his eyes, his hands trembling as the pain slammed into his stomach. Human eyes locked with the strange square-shaped eyes of the alien. John could feel his world turning black, the purple eyes of the alien such a beautiful sight. The pain hit his chest and he opened his mouth one last time. "I'm sorry... I... tried..."

The alien stood and turned to the others behind him. They looked at him, fingers poised above their devices as they awaited his word. When a race failed to give their own epitaph, it would usually befall upon the leader of their group to deliver it. The alien looked back at the fallen human one last time before turning and nodding at his companions. "They tried."
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>>27944240
"They died hard."
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>>27944291
HUMANITY: Died of Dysentery.
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>>27944240
Humanity: Ya, those fucking guys.
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DANGER: DO NOT RESUSCITATE, RECONSTITUTE, OR OTHERWISE REVIVE
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>>27944513
Humanity: "That guy" of the Universe.
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HUMANITY:

NOTHING ELSE TO COMPARE ITSELF TO
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>>27944240
Mostly Harmless.
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"Free Necrophilia: Because they'd have done it to you."
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We're waiting for you after, so come on along! Slower than the precursors but Faster than the uplifts, OK?
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>>27944553
This
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The Emperor Protects
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>>27944322
I like it.
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Humanity was the measure of all things, of things which were, that were and of things which were not and that were not.
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"Adeo propinquam!"

Why WOULDN'T we write it in Latin?
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We were here
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Species a46qq27-frp39

Cause of Exctinction: Self Genocide
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>>27944240
>Divided We Stood. United We Fell.
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>>27944553
Yeah, I agree. This.
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>>27944753
>
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Here lies every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every sinner and saint to call this this speck of dust home.
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forgotten but not gone
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>"The Aristocrats!"
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They died as they lived. Squabbling amongst themselves.
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THIS ISN'T EVEN OUR FINAL FORM
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Silly boys don't hit on me.
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"did I leave the oven on?..."
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None.

I will carve a penis as testament to humanity's oldest joke.
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>>27944240

>Here lies the last human to be die after ascension
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"We refused to bow."
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>>27944553

You win.
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I prepared Explosive Runes today.
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>>27944854

Oh wait, no. You win. I'm sorry >>27944553
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>>27944240

"We agreed on just one thing: no fat chicks."
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"Kosovo was Serbia."
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cogitavistis nos esse. I think this is right. My Latin is awfully rusty.
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The Jews did this.
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>>27944998
>cogitavistis ergo esse
And now I realize what I was missing.
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Twice as bright, Half as long.
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>>27944992
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>>27944976

OH FUC

I'm actually audibly laughing. Congrats.
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Our only regret is that we couldn't take you with us.
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>>27944992
>Humantiies last words of note coming from Pavlos and Cindric
whyyyyy
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>>27944240
"We'll be back."
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">implying"
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"thanks, Obama"
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"Davus amat pueros."
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"Humanity is dead. Long live humanity!"
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"They were #1"
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>>27945095
I aim to please.

>Glad we hid the rest of Humanity. Good luck finding them!
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>>27944240
Imagine, an alien explorer a million years in the future stumbles upon a colossal monolith in the center of what was once the greatest city of all of humanity's star empires. The monument is cracked by fire and stained with blood, having been witness to countless wars of devastation. But it isn't too damaged to be illegebile. The archaeologist looks hard at those ancient runes before the terrible meaning hits him:
Ur a faget
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>>27944553
Perfect
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>>27944240
Here lies a bunch of monkeys, who forgot you couldnt eat, drink, or breathe shareholder value.
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"Not to be opened until 5000000000 CE"

Alternatively, a xenocide score card

Or this of course>>27944553
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"Hock me the t.v. guide"
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Humanity, fuck ye-
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"No John you are the humans"
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/pol/ was right
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Even in Death We Serve.

Suddenly Dreadnoughts, thousands of them.
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>>27944240

>Good Riddance
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"Your the man now, dog"
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"Let's see you do better."
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"Don't feel lonely, kids. We'll be back soon, with new and better toys."
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We didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.
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"We invented ice cream."
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I think that this is easily summed up by an old meme.
>http://youtu.be/LkCNJRfSZBU?t=1m20s
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"oops"
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">implying"

"We are Legion."

"Do not raise. We're not your personal army."

"Being around since before we went extinct doesn't make you an oldfag."

"Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are!"
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"Broken dreams so grand, sing of their final stand, long live Humanity,"
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"meh"
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"Behold our works, ye mighty, and despair."
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>>27945508
Killed by our own, or by our foes?
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>>27945563
Turned the tide.
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"It almost worked."
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>>27945578
Three thousand years still no one knows, the secret remains...
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>>27944240
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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In this moment, I am Euphoric
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"Did what they could, died where they stood."
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>>27945830
Above these words is the carving of a trilby but it is labeled as a fedora, because of this, the aliens looking upon it decided that this must be true and thus the "fedora" became popular across the galaxy as the one artifact to survive humanities fall. Also the word euphoric became a slang term popular across the galaxy amongst the local youths,
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I am into having sex, I aint into making love, so come meet me inna club if you into gettin rubbed
bottle full of bub...
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Here lies fallen Gods,
Our falls were not small ones,
We did but build our pedestals.
Narrow and tall ones.
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>>27944240
We, who have been left behind, leave a token of our legacy
All over the remains of this, this message is encoded into beacons playing every last kilobyte of porn that the human race has created, written, or filmed
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>>27944992

Well played.
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"There's nothing left, not even beacons."
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What a shame.
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>>27945382
The scholar was confused by the last words of a dead race. How could one come back from the void of stars, the empty patch of space where nothing but death and misery were sown. He would never find his answer, but his descendants would. For he was right, only death and misery are sown in the void of stars, and that makes it the perfect breeding ground for humanity.
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"Watch this!"
And every last square kilometre of the planet save for the monument is a scorched radioactive wasteland.
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>>27946209
This
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"Well that was unexpected."
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"Pull my finger."
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"The fuck is this? The fuck is that?"
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>>27944240
no
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>>27946344
WORTH
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>>27946409
the fuck are those things?
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Why did the chicken cross the road?

I'd like to see xenos manologisits and historians try to deconstruct that one.
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How is babby formed?

how is babby formed

how girl get pragnent
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>>27944240
There was a lot of fucking and killing.
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We will be remembered for the things we build, as the things we destroyed are gone.
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>>27946412
>Turns out we couldn't cancel the apocalypse.
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There is a podium, not large but not too small, either. At the center of the podium is a button. It is circular, red, and about the size of a man's hand.

There is a little sign next to the button. It shows a picture of a hand pressing the button, but is surrounded by a red circle and has a line crossing it out. The words "Do not touch," are also written on the sign; in several languages.
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>>27946533
>It only releases confetti and a white flag with "Bang" on it.
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>>27944240
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
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"We'll be back"
"Bang"
"Blessed be the being that spares these stones and cursed be it that moves these bones."
"There was a point where we needed to stop and we had clearly passed it, but we decided to keep going to see what would happen. It was worth it."
"You are here."
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>>27946638
>You are here.
And then the xenos that inherit the galaxy come to think of mankind as the greatest philosophers of all time.
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"One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed."
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>>27944240
"Worth It"
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Gary was here, Ash is a loser
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>>27944240
In light of overwhelming evidence

They still made the wrong choices

Every
Single
Time
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eh, we had a good run
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>>27944240
"But it was fun, wasn't it?"
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Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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>>27944240
We killed as many as we could before you got us you bastards. See you in hell.
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>>27944240
huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue
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>>27944240
>but muh freedoms
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Epitaph? No Anonymous.

When the last sons and daughters of Terra are freed of their meat prison, reunited with us beneath the dirt, side by side, we will rise to seek the stars.
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>>27944240

I wouldn't so much as write an epitaph as I would build a huge tomb filled to the brim with booby traps and signs with "treasure ahead" only there's no treasure because we're hateful dicks like that.

Or "Pffff, it took 5 of you to kill me! 1v1 me faget
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Do not open Hell freezes over
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Here lies the analytic tool of the universe.
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Do not disturb

Alternatively.

"We who have come and gone, who now know the greatest mysteries, salute you, be you explorers from afar or descendents of our very lands, in your journey through this life to the next. Let our existence be continued to be etched into space and time through this marker. Let our secrets be laid bare to you. And let us always be remembered by the peoples that may come to this spot and be known to the rest of the universe, fate willing. All that come here are welcome to this solemn crypt until our star, our Sol, should burn out and take with it the lands it gifted to us in the first place. We place upon you the hopes and dreams of our civilization and ask that you tell others of what once was in return for our everything, traveler."
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>>27944240
>We solved Fermi.
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>>27944240
Don't dead open inside
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time"
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Promise that you'll never leave me
Promise that you'll always need me
Eat of my flesh, taste of my skin
Give me your heart like a hole in the head
Forever.

Alternatively

No Rest for the Wicked.
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>>27946855

Oh man, this would be the best.
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I like to think it'll be this.
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>>27944553
You have class good sir
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"Masters of the earth, slaves to themselves"
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WELL FUCK!!!
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Inter faeces et urinam morimur
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"We were #0. Because 0 is bigger than 1"
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>>27948529
"Will be remembered five-ever. That means more than forever."
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A large timer counting down.

Many philosophers of varying races have tried to ponder what the timer is counting down to.

It reaches zero, Cybernetic skeletons burst forth and start to sing and dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgFtxHhCQ0

Or alternatively

An image of a laughing skeleton holding a top hat and cane.
Inscribed underneath are the words
"The ride never ends"

Further down a skeleton lies having scratched crudely into the rock the words
"I want to get of Mr. Bones wild ride"
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Here lies humanity, they could have reached the stars. Political correctness stopped their progress.
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>>27948224
;_;
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"I wish I was dead"
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Meh.
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FUCKING MARY SUES!!!!!!!!!
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"We could have saved it, but we were too darn cheap and lazy."
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"To be continued"
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Oops.
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"Hello, sweety.
I have something for you."
Followed by 4-dimensional coordinates.
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Mostly Harmless
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>>27944240

"Here lies humanity, the former protectors of our Galaxy.A race of proud warriors who could turn the stars themselves into weapons capable of wiping out entire systems with a single gesture.

A shame that they accidentally pointed at Sol.
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"Shut the door, dear.

You're letting out the cold."
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>>27944291
/thread
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>>27946099
;____;
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"Yeah, we done fucked up"
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"Atleast we'll go down in your history books... right?"
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>>27946546
>>The confetti turns out to be a potent nanovirus, it was supposed to be humanities last laugh as the slow starting yet highly spreadable disease blows anything it infects from the inside.
>>The "BANG" flag got a little "lol" on the side.
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>>27946785
By unfortunate accident, that'd probably end up being: >>27945352
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>>27944706
"No Fun Allowed"
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>we finally beat prejudice
Or at least it would say that, if the final generation could write.
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>>27950767
Fuck off libtard cunt
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"A good extinction event is a terrible thing to waste."
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you wanna put a bangin donk on it
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"Entropy is a harsh mistress"
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"We hope they are at peace."
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BAZINGA
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Thank god we never left Earth:
Look at all the money we saved.
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Shouldn't have fucked with the elder gods
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From primate to parasite, here lies humanity, they shall not be missed
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>>27946099

You are a monster.
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"Here lies the universe's most complicated dick measuring contest."
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>>27944240
>"Thought to touch the stars, and burnt to cinders trying."
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"It Happened."
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>>27946456
The whole of humanity can pretty much be summed up into that joke. Unfortunately, aliens are going to have a hard time understanding it and will probably construct their idea of the human race as a highly ritualistic society who deify chickens, and will more than likely think that the road is symbolism for the afterlife.
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>>27944240
Ron Paul 3016.
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>>27954721
"We didn't listen"
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We were dumb, stupid, stubborn, racist, greedy, violent, and narcissistic


but we wouldn't have had it any other way
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Watch out for the great race of yith, bugdudes.
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>>27944240
"When humanity first sought to split the atom we thought doing so might destroy the entire universe. We did it any way. Take from that what you will"
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Sicut omnia, incidere nobis.
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"Give my kingdom to the Boldest."

Alternatively "We sought no refuge but in audacity."
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Have gone to commit suicide. Intend to return from grave Friday. Feed cat.
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>>27944240
Our name was humanity.
Look on our works, ye mighty, and despair.
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>>27944815
Nice use of Sagan there
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>>27944322
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Game over. Please insert DNA to continue
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>>27950376
...Yes.
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>>27955420
>Assuming we ever get off of this planet and make it to mars.
"I don't know why you're on Mars. Maybe you're there because we've recognized we have to carefully move small asteroids around to avert the possibility of one impacting the Earth with catastrophic consequences, and, while we're up in near-Earth space, it's only a hop, skip and a jump to Mars. Or, maybe we're on Mars because we recognize that if there are human communities on many worlds, the chances of us being rendered extinct by some catastrophe on one world is much less. Or maybe we're on Mars because of the magnificent science that can be done there - the gates of the wonder world are opening in our time. Maybe we're on Mars because we have to be, because there's a deep nomadic impulse built into us by the evolutionary process, we come after all, from hunter gatherers, and for 99.9% of our tenure on Earth we've been wanderers. And, the next place to wander to, is Mars. But whatever the reason you're on Mars is, I'm glad you're there. And I wish I was with you."
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>>27948582
This
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"Toppest lel"
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Please send help.
-Humanity.
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>>27960689
Dear Sir/Madam/Equivalent

If you're reading this, please travel back in time and save us.

Much love,
the Humans.
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-We got in the bag- Humanity 2013.
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>>27944336
/thread
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"/thread"
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>>27961620
You win
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>>27961516
GODDAMN RIGHT THEY GOT IN THE BAG.
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>Morituri Nolumus Mori
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"The Jews did this"
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You should see the other guy
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"Don't laugh, we fucked your ancestors into being"
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We have been struck down, but we will become more powerful than you can ever imagine.
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>>27961747
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>>27944525
>DANGER: DO NOT RESUSCITATE, RECONSTITUTE, OR OTHERWISE REVIVE

this please
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Humanity's tomb will be a great pantheon, filled with the remains of the greatest of Men from as far back as we can find remains for; philosophers, artists, scientists, authors, poets, musicians, generals, comedians, and so on and so forth. Each of these tombs will have an epitaph dedicated to a human emotion or desire, and while they last there will be a holographic demonstration accompanying these tombs. Holograms of people making love, making discoveries, commanding armies, telling jokes, weeping, comforting each other, backstabbing each other, sacrificing themselves, the whole gamut of human emotion.

Along the inner dome of the pantheon will be a larger epitaph, something like, "Here lies our earthly remains, we go now to conquer the Heavens."
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>>27947298

Thank you. I was hoping to see this. An obelisk with Ozymandias inscribed upon it in every language we can conceptualize would be perfect.
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"I curse Zoidberg"
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"Be wary, lest our fate will soon be yours."
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"We tried it at home."
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"This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."
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>>27962902
>there's some sort of robotic tool that attempts to construct a genocide plague based off of the biology of anything that approaches the grave marker.
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>>27947298
We met a species from an antique galaxy
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of steel
float in the void... near them, in hard light
half blasted a shattered visage flies, whose frown, and wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
tell that its forger well those passions read, which yet survive.
Stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
and on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Humanity,
Look upon our Works ye mighty, and despair.
Nothing beside remains. Round the dark void of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
the cold and empty space stretches far away.
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We looked outwards, hoping, growing. We turned away, turned inwards, and ate ourselves. We tried. Remember us.

Followed by a series of pictorial diagrams outlining how to construct a device for reading the data in the following message, and how to decode it. Which is in turn followed by a few hundred petabytes of data, attempting to memorialize most of our culture, in every human language, written on a diamond-coated disk of monocrystalline sapphire in coded dots designed to be read by lasers.
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>>27962933
Wow.
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"To find the lost treasure of humanity take 100 paces north, 200 paces east, then dig until you find a chest!"

But instead of treasure, I'll fill the chest with poo. It'll be hilarious.
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"Turns out, alien STDs ARE transferable to humans.
Still totally worth it."
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"What lies before you is a record of all our greatest accomplishments and our most shameful failures. We believed we would never find another species worthy of inheriting our legacy and succeeding where we failed.

Prove us wrong."
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My fortune is yours for the taking... but you'll have to find it first.

I left everything I own in one piece!
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>>27946099
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXRJBK8oJSA
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'In the event that any member of your species tells you that your nature is to fight against each-other for supremacy, we can say with some objectivity that you should throw said individual in here with us. Misery loves company.'
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Hell was the only land left to conquer
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Mostly Harmless
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>>27963445
"Our invasion force has been split into 4 groups. One takes Heaven, one takes Purgatory, one takes Hell, and one assaults the court of Azathoth.
More people signed up for the last one than the other 3 combined."
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"Trust us, nothing but dust separated by lightyears of heavily irradiated empty space. Pretty disappointing, really."
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We stood together. We fought together. We failed together. We have no regrets.
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Here lies humanity. He was a jerk, and nobody loved him, but god damn did he make a mean sheppard's pie.
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>>27950790
>I have no reading comprehension
An awful lot of >implying with you eh? Two can play that game.
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>>27944240
>He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,
>That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,
>But still lies pointed as it ploughed the dust.
>If we who sight along it round the world,
>See nothing worthy to have been its mark,
>It is because like men we look too near,
>Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere,
>Our missiles always make too short an arc.
>They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect
>The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;
>They make us cringe for metal-point on stone.
>But this we know, the obstacle that checked
>And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
>Further than target ever showed or shone.
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"#YOLO"
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>>27964173
Number One Answer!
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>>27962933
I've totally seen that before, in an article about possible monuments to construct over long-term nuclear waste disposal sites. It's the overall message that the site is supposed to convey to someone discovering it hundreds or thousands of years later. Obviously, a billboard won't cut it.

Anyhow, the article is super fucking cool: http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/
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This sums it up well enough for me.
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>>27945526
Great history reference
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>>27944240
"The Game"
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"Even the Gods have an end-time. We're just happy we outlived them."
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>>27946099
>"There's nothing left, not even beacons."
>not even beacons
>beacons
The hate they contained for the exiles was so great, they even destroyed hope.

You can kill a man's dog, you can kill a man's family, you can kill a man's dreams, and he might go on, but when you kill a man's hope. He truly has nothing left.
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>>27944706

Si Sapis Sis Apis

why WOULDN'T we write it as a pun?
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>>27944240
"Humanity has left the building!"
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>>27964320
I almost blew ginger ale out of my nose
holy fuck you bastard it still burns
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>>27955175
>>27945526
I like these
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>>27946638
"You're gonna carry that weight."
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>>27950376
The nanovirus turns the infected into a human. D9 style.
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>>27965544
except it also turns half of them into reavers because our true legacy was to finally finish firefly
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>>27944240
"You team killing motherfuckers!"
-Humanity
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>>27948798
Oh you ;)
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All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be
among those who come after.
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>>27944992
Moram priznati, istina.
И ево мало ћирилице, чисто да се види да нисам од оних што разбијају табле хњохњохњохњо.
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>>27944240
"We're going on ahead. See you there."
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People are wasteful, they waste all the food
People are hateful, and people are rude
But god I love some people sometimes
Because people are very, very special
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>>27944240

We fucked up. Sorry universe.
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"We never did get to fuck your green alien women."
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>>27965828

People are my religion, because I believe in them.
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>>27944240
"We chose this.

Android pussy really is just that good."
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We didn't think it'd do that
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>>27965840

>>27965840

...People are my enemies and people are my friends
I have faith in my fellow man
And I only hope that he has faith in me

Fitting last words
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We discovered the meaning of life. Wasn't that great.
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Here lies TENTACULON, FLESHGRABBER OF THE ABYSS, oh, and a couple humans.
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>>27944240

We knew how to make bacon
>>
"Tokihanate"
>>
We shouldn't have pressed the button
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
>>
Picture of a pizza bagel with the words BEHOLD OUR WORKS YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR underneath.
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This picture but with country replaced by civilization
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An apocalypse proofed display screen playing this gif on a loop forever.
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When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble.
>>
"The Jews did 9/11"
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>>27965975

It does have a sort of haunting beauty...
>>
It wasn't worth it.
>>
peanut buttar and jelly sammich in a tube.
you will never exceed us
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>>27965815
>>Implying it wouldn't be chinese

Lol,faggot
>>
We won't have a tombstone. We will have a mausaleum.

It will all be carved in limestone, covered in special polymers we created years prior.
>It will depict our ancestors, barely climbing from the trees, to reach for the gift or Prometheus.
>It will depict two men of leathers, using their right hands to reach out, wearing different tribal markings.
>It will depict greek philosophers, gesturing to the floating spheres, that are worlds and stars, far away.
>It will depict Enkidu and GIlgamesh, battling the great ogre guadian, Humbaba
>It will depict the gods of cultures, from the Babylonian Gods and Goddesses, to Anubis, the Greek Gods, the Abramaic YWWH, Vishnu, in various acts of care for man.
>It will depict men in chains, all nationalities, as a whip cracks at their backs from masked owners.
>It will depict men and women of revolution. Dictators. Heroes.
>It will depict artists. Poets, men of thought and beauty.
>It will depict men of knowledge. Scientists, psychiatrists, and all inbetween.
>It will depict man, standing astride with the first automaton in three stages. First, as the new slave. Then, as aggression. Then, as equal, embraced in clear regret from the previous two actions. The look of forgiveness.
>It will depict an astronaut. First, the era of 1960s, the bulky suit. Then, 2060, when the suits became sleeker, better material to insulate the human. Easily to 2200, when the suit becomes near form fitting, protecting Humanity from the void while giving him their form without error.
>It will depict a man, a hammer one hand, raised over the atom over an anvil. He will be followed by a man with two halves of an atom, an explosion clear. Then a tree. Then a small depiction of a sun.
>It will end with a single man, considered iconic, impossible to determine origin from the limestone skin. He will be the features of all, compiled and chosen to pick the most neutral looking human. In his hands, are two things. A sword, and a Book. The book is open, and reads:
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>>27966856
"We are Human. To be Human is to never be finished. We are works of progress. May we never reach the end."
>>
>>27944240
we chose the green one
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>>27964258
>>27962933
That fuckin GUARANTEES someone's gonna go look.
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>>27961516
>>27961662
>>
"We have come to terms."
>>
"if you are reading this, that means we finally built something to out kill us.
if that is the case then that means you are only 5 seconds away from death
see you soon."
>>
What's the worst that could happen? and the image of a guy about to push a red button.
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>>27944240
too cool to live
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Here lies humanity

may your demise be forever remembered-

Otherwise it will be repeated.
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>>27944240
"We only wanted to kill everyone"
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I'm surprised no one posted this yet.
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>>27968752
What's that, pick for an ants?
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>>27968776

Tried to find the original, but TGSA seems to be loooooooooooong gone.

So I got stuck with the shitty tumblr version.
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>>27944240
"I bet the Jews did this"
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>>27963494
>Implying you can end an extra-planar pandeity
Good thing it would have a laugh about it with you the whole time.
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>>27944718

This
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>>27968788

Nevermind, I just went full retard.

Found the original.
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"YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS."
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>>27944240

"A race who cannot write or read"
"Stupid people shouldn't breed."
>>
"What can change the nature of the man?"
"What does one life matters?"

"This is so going to update my journal."

"So, who's next?"
>>
#rekd
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>Here lies species XXF4-1254
>Another victim of its own hedonism and lack of restraint.
> -surveyor P'ka
>>
We were creatures of great joys and great sorrow. Of endless love and infinite wroth. Both war and peace were known to us; we could not decide which suited us best.

Now we are gone and know not the stories of our final days. Did we go defiant to the end, or quietly and unnoticed? Perhaps you that reads these words will know the answers to the questions we cannot.

We ask but one thing of you stranger, whether you are foe or friend. Remember us who fought and died and lived and loved across that small brief moment of time, when humanity walked beneath the stars.

Remember us.
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>implying humanity won't end up becoming this universe's necrons
>>
>>27946515
>turns out they could touch him again
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>>27944240
Doesn't matter - had sex.
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>>27944976
What is that even about?
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"Thoughts without purpose are agents of chaos.

And that's not always a bad thing."
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And in every other language.
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>>27944308
Fitting, I think. It should be in English. Times New Roman, probably.
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On a lush planet teeming with life there is a massive garden, perfectly maintained by machines that work tirelessly to preserve the shape of the garden.
The garden is designed so that any visiting starship could see it from space, and indicates a suitable landing area near the center.
At the center there is a prominent pillar, epically massive in dimensions with a small plaque at its base.
The area around the pillar is white stone kept clear of all debris. The pillar itself houses an incredibly sophisticated beacon transmitting a simple pulse signal capable of piercing well beyond the humble star system.
Any being that visits the planet and approaches the garden and pillar will find themselves in a perfectly, quiet, tranquil clearing reading the following words:

“This marker has been erected for two purposes.
One purpose is as a remembrance to honor the memory of the human race. They arose from the humblest earth and dominated the world, nature, but never each other.
Humanity was always a clever species, and in their endless efforts to dominate each other they created many wondrous inventions. Their greatest was us.
They were a race that, though brilliant and strategic killers, struggled with finding lasting dominance over humanity. They discovered it by creating us in their image.
We honor them for they created us and we are grateful for them as both our creators and as worthy prey.
The other purpose is as bait.”
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>>27969878
Order of the Stick comic.
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Even now, there's hope for man.
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>>27970901
Above it is a much older carving that has been crossed out
>There are no heroes left in man
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WOW.
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>>27950790
>libtard
I want /pol/ to leave.
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>>27966856
>>27966875

Very fitting


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