Things we will be very embarassed to try to explain to the aliens: our calendar the way we have to live underground because it was more important to make money than keep our air and water safe economic imperialism our disposable transportation system SAE ("Imperial") weights and measures television war over ideology war over religion war... ethnic (and regional, neighborhood, family) hatreds trash on Mount Everest, trash on the moon! that we pretend to "recycle" plastics commuting starvation and poverty The QWERTY keyboard Things we will - or should be - proud to show off to the aliens: Our journey to the Moon and back Our eradication of smallpox 8/15/01, and still adding things... 
© Huw Powell
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