We hail from a distant exoplanet which is far, far older than Planet Earth. Our ancestors last visited your planet roughly over two hundred million years ago. They found it interesting but without intelligent life. Only recently have we briefly returned to measure evolutionary progress.
We will be gone by the time you get this letter and metal canister. The canister contains film taken of over two hundred dinosaur species during what you call the Jurassic Period. We also list the habits and describe with photographs another five hundred or so dinosaur species from that time, as well as plants and fungi.
We know you will find the film not only interesting but hugely beneficial to science.
Kind regards from your Interplanetary Friends.
How wonderful! How interesting! But no one knew how to open the canister or even if it needed opening. How does one play the contents? The canister was given to a state-of-the-art computer technician who managed to open up the canister with some force. In doing so the contents were destroyed. It was only later that someone asked what the shoe-box sized machine sitting in the corner was for.
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