[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Well, hell, why not just land on the moon? Put up a big flashing sign: “We’ll be here for eight of your days. If you’re capable of coming here to meet us, we’d love to chat. Otherwise, piss off.” 
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Or maybe they’d just etch a very rude word in 200km font letters and then leave after dumping out all the food wrappers, soda cans, and Handi-Wipes that they accumulated on the journey. That’s what I’d do.
“My haplo-gamma-gender-parent went to the third planet around Sol and all I got was this stupid thoracic integument.”
Stranger