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Humans fit a lot of stuff in the time capsule on Voyager 1 to give any aliens who stumble upon the space probe a sense of our civilization. But they might have just included this mock PSA by Tom Scott for the Interstellar Safety Council, warning alien species about human ferocity and unpredictability. So many good moments here, particularly the section on our vulnerabilities, which of course our arrogance causes us to all but ignore.
Scott says his video was inspired by this Tumblr meditation, which reads:
It's funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
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