• ravhall@discuss.online
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    18 days ago

    Wishful thinking that intelligent life would exist at this exact point in time on that planet capable of receiving the message and decoding it… And hopefully not mistaking it for a threat

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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      18 days ago

      Counterpoint: intelligent life finds the wreckage a million years from now and gets the answer earth folks have been searching for: there’s other life out there.

      Counter-counterpoint: the planet is seeded with earth microbes that out compete native cooperative microbes, preemptively replacing a future utopia with earth’s particular brand of bullshit.