How to you establish a relationship in modern times? First, send unsolicited nudes. That is, apparently, what the Gen Zers at NASA these days think. <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/nasa-to-send-naked-pictures-of-humans-in-hope-of-attracting-aliens/">The Sun</a> reports that their latest project to communicate with and apparently hook up with aliens involves transmitting binary code images of a pair of nude humans and a double helix out into the furthest reaches of the galaxy.The image is probably not unfamiliar to the older readers among us, as the Pioneer space probes of the 1970s featured <a href="https://www.planetary.org/articles/0120-the-pioneer-plaque-science-as-a-universal-language">plaques with a similar design</a>. So I guess we were scandalous back then, too. But at least we sent hard copies, which was probably classier.Overall, sending space nudes is probably a bad idea. It gives the wrong impression. And on one special episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Commander Riker had to deal with<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrKryMVpXVA"> the consequences of it during a first contact mission</a>.-via <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1521875160437080064">David Burge</a>#nudity #artisticnudity #spaceexploration #SETI