Under Czech I'll say "should have been an ambassador" Under Yours it will say "Should have been a politician, and under mine it'll say "Should have made Czechism a religion"

ME: When I sleep, when I wake up, when I eat, when I laugh maniacally, when I have sex, when I yell at people, and when I see some idiotic post on the forums. Then I'd have Glenn Miller, Bismarck, and Rocky Balboa. Then I'd leave behind a copy of 'History In Accordance To Atom Foltz' once I finish it. That should help them out a bit, right?

I'd put King Atom on there and write most selfish human being to ever live

My Heads, and their accompanying works:

From left to right:

Alexander The Great: A Golden Sword (Greatest military leader ever)
Cleopatra: A Pyramid (Two symbols of one of our first great civilizations)
Jesus: The Bible (Whether he was divine or not, probably the single most well-known figure ever)
Confucius: Yin-Yang Symbol (Greatest Eastern thinker ever)
William Shakespeare: "Hamlet" (If no one saw THIS pick coming...Earth's Greatest Writer)
Isaac Newton: A Representative Apple (The Father of Physics)
George Washington: The US Constitution (A Father amongst the Founding Fathers...)
Ludwig Van Beethoven: "Moonlight Sonata" (Somehow that piece seems to sum up humanity...)
Charles Darwin: "On The Origin Of Species" (The significance speaks for itself)
Pablo Picasso: "Guernica" (The painter and painting of the human struggle in the last century)

Well, maybe not a perfect list, but I tried...hard to represent humanity with just 10 Heads!

:)

But we have art, music, literature, history, politics, science, and philosophy all represented there...not bad...

LOL...

So, on the WebDip version, we so far have...

killer135
King Atom
The Czech
obiwanobiwan

Hmmm...

We need TheGhostMaster and kestas on there, too, for sure...and you can't have a full account for the aliens without including Putin to and mapleleaf to counter me...

What other great, noble, trope-spewing figures of WebDip lore should the alien successors know of and bow to? XD

Don't forget Mad Marx

Whoah, whoah, whoah...BUMP!

What would the space-aliens/chimps think of us if all we leave behind are carved heads? Should have spent the resources necessary to make the heads saving ourselves instead perhaps?

don't be crazy now speaker to aliens. That's just lunacy

Yes, let's put our heads in glass jars and preserve them with name tags, then we can develop a way for us to live out our lives once in these jars...

King Atom is the voice of reason in all of this... WE'RE DOOMED

KA - Futurama reference perchance?

@ obiwan - That list seems very eurocentric. You threw in Confucius which helps a little, but just in terms of people who's influence on history has actually effected the greatest number of people, what about Mao, Gandhi or Nehru? How about Siddhartha Gautama (aka Buddha) as a religious figure? What about some figure from the Ottoman empire? And while we're recognizing scientific greatness, what about some of the figures from the Arab world who invented fields like Algebra, and preserved and progressed while Europe stagnated? I don't think 10 people is enough to recognize all the disparate fields in which people can achieve greatness and to also fairly recognize that there's actually more to the world than North America and Western Europe.

@Killer135:I was thinking of Easter Island. One of the few things I know about the place is that they destroyed their own ecosystem putting up those heads...

Unfortunately we have little to show for eastern civilization since the Muslim invaders torched everything Ancient Persia had kept. They did similar things to ancient India. And of course the Mongols destroyed much of the rest of Asia. China is the pearl of the East. But sadly we lost most everything else.

And I frankly can't think of anything the Ottomans produced that was of any significance, since they invested very little in education and from the 13th century onward scientific innovation completely stalled.

1. the unknown homo habilis - stone tools, genocide
2. the unknown homo erectus - fire, migration from Africa
3. the unknown homo sapiens - ceremonial burial, cave art
4. the unknown from China, from Mesopotamia and from Mexico - agriculture, towns, empires, taxes
5. the unknown from middle-Asia - horse-back riding, imperialism
6. the Greek - democracy, populism
7. the Roman - republic, dictatorship
8. Jesus - for reforming monotheism
9. Cortes - to represent one of the last meetings of previously seperated people
10. Stalin - personal cult, modern dictatorship

There is good and bad in everyone, and that is what we are as a race too.

Putin - You do have a point, but I think at the same time, that the temptation when making lists like this is really to think of your own culture first and foremost, and ignore the fact that there are billions of people worldwide who see things completely differently.

Also Cleopatra for Ancient Egypt? Not an actual egyptian? Like say one of the Ramses' or Khufu who actually had the pyramids built? It's just, you already have Alexander on your list to represent Hellenic Greece, it seems kinda silly to then also include Cleopatra, who would seem to represent Hellenized Egypt. Why not just go for Egyptian Egypt?

1. Homer and the Illiad
2. the dirty stinky Human who started the whole wheel nonsense.
3. Abraham, father of 3 religions. Not sure what would be good for him
4. Alexander the Great, sure his sword. good call on this one
5. Buddha and his dot
6. Confucius with the Yin Yang
7. The human who first started clay working and thus humans changing the environment to suit their needs. Give em a pot to piss in.
8. Einstein and his theories unlocking the Universe and possibly our destruction.
9. Neil Armstrong and an Apollo moon Lander.
10. George Carlin and a microphone.

@Mafialligator:

Yes, it is very Eurocentric...and minorities have it tough, only one non-white male, and only one female.

The thing is, I tried to represent the gamut of human achievement more than human biodiversity, since...well, these are heads carved in a rock-face, it's not as if the Apes/Aliens will know the difference between a Chinaman and an Englishman. ;)

So that meant some world leaders...
Beethoven's there for music (it HAS to be between Beethoven and Mozart, and I gave it to Beethoven because I thought the Moonlight Sonata would be a fitting tune for the aliens/chimps to hear when they found out about humanity, it sums up it al up nicely.)
Shakespeare for literature (obvious)
Jesus for religion (I considered Abraham for all three Abrahamic religions, but he might not have even existed...whereas Jesus probably existed in at least some form, myth is generally rooted in truth, there probably WAS some Welsh/Celtic leader named Arthur who drove out the Anglo-Saxons for a bit with the help of his comrades, so just like King Arthur, Jesus' myth probably has some historical figure at the root of it)]
Picasso for painting (Because I needed a painter and a 20th century figure, and he fit both perfectly, as his "Guernica" stands for all the suffering of that century all over the world)
Newton and Darwin are there for science...
Alexander for military conquest...

And so on.

In retrospect...yeah...I probably should have added Buddha, and maybe taken off someone...Cleopatra and Washington might go, but it seems a shame to leave no women on the sculpture, and no record of the Egyptians, and Washington stands for America, which is a big part of modern history...

So I dunno how I'd fit in Buddha, maybe make it 11 heads...or an even dozen, and add maybe Plato for Western philosophy, or Queen Elizabeth to go with Cleopatra as arguably the two most well-known female rulers ever.

@bihary:

We're trying to show these aliens the GOOD side of humanity, what we were WORTH...

If I was going to go in order of jsut importance, I'd have Hitler in there for the 20th century by a longshot...

Perhaps the most evil man ever--and yes, Stalin killed more and ruled longer, but Hitler and the Nazis are just....Hitler and the Nazis, there's no beating them on the evil-factor--and arguably the man who influenced the 20th century the most (Holocaust, WWII, and those led to fall of empires, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, the United Nations, and lest we forget, it DID help give the final push to allow the Jews to create a homeland back in the Middle East...and Israel and the Arabs have been fighting ever since.)

@Mafialligator (again):

Cleopatra's there to represent Egypt, the Egypt/Greece/Rome connection, and to give a woman to the group...

Putting a pharaoh on there means we're without a double pair of X chromosomes, and that's not fair...

The aliens are going to wonder how we reproduced! ;)

What about any of the Renaissance artists, Leonardo, Michelangelo, skip Picasso. Give me some one with some versatility.

^
True, those are also good artists...

But I picked Picasso for art AND for a representative of the 20th Century, since with al that's happened in the last century, to have the latest figure be Darwin seems to end our monument of man's history a bit too early.

So if you put in Leonardo da Vinci, for his inventions and the Mona Lisa...

Who would you put for the 20th century figure, and then who do you kick out to make room?

Einstein for Newton. Easily interchangeable.

I am a bit disturbed by my own tendencies at the male dominated list. Unfortunately it is reflective of the lack of opportunities allowed women since Ancient Greece went to a Patriarchal system. I guess add on Catherine the Great, and bring her horse for fun.

Newton came first, though...but yeah, we have Shakespeare and Darwin already, and we DO need a Jew, clearly! :D

So, the list now:

Alexander the Great
Cleopatra
Confucius
Jesus
Buddha
William Shakespeare
George Washington
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein

That's a good representation of humanity...no painters or sculptors, but we have Shakespeare and Beethoven, and 1/5 of the spots taken up for art and 1/5 for science with Darwin and Einstein is a good balance of those sides of human thought, artistic thought and scientific thought.

Not to be unpatriotic, but I would trade Washington for any of the classic philosophers, Aristotle, Plato or even for one of the Renaissance Artists. America is great but currently what you think of modern History (last 200 years), is about roughly .000002% of human existence.

Also your reasoning for including Jesus instead of Abraham, is kind of hollow. Everything you use to defend the myth of Jesus pointing to a factual person, works for Abraham as well.
Disregarding your above statement about needing a Jew, you already had one as well.

Keeping in mind that I have slightly less artistic talent than your average baboon, it is safe to assume that no matter who I try to carve into my mountain the result will more closely resemble ten woman wearing Burkas than anyone famous. Not that it would matter, of course. If humanity has died out then the sum of the efforts of even the greatest people mankind has ever produced is ultimately a complete failure.

So, my mountain would have the image of just one man (or woman in Burka), with the inscription "Bugger..." and a DVD box set of Lost to symbolise the fundamental pointlessness of it all.

This. And a thank you for pulling me out of what-if scenario cycle of destruction.

There's a distinct imbalance of women to men in the lists. Here's a few to consider:-

Boudica - Warrior queen of the Iceni.
Maria Curie - first woman to win a Nobel prize. Only woman to win TWO Nobel prizes! Died for her art - of radiation poisoning.
Florence Nightingale - the lady with the lamp. Revolutionised nursing.