NASA has asked you to design a deep-space, alien-seeking probe. What would you put in it to sum up humanity?

You’ve got limited space and weight allowances (it needs to fit in NASA’s quite small probe) but unlimited funds. It can be as simple or wild as you like (Don’t worry.. the government will bail them out if you spend too much). You could be friendly to the aliens with your probe contents and try to entice them to come visit us, or try to scare them away in case they’re aggressive and have domination on the mind.

The idea is that any aliens it may encounter on it’s long journey would be given some tidbits of info about the human race – who and what we are. Like the Pioneer Plaque NASA sent out, but more impressive ;)

I’d probably go for the friendly and informative option – a dictionary, a few pictures of humans (I’d use the one from the Pioneer Plaque, but fatten the people up a bit and have them scoffing some food down), a few photos of our planet, and an ipod full of music (hoping they have ears!).