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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
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.
Targeted transmission, not a probe.
Counter-counter-counterpoint: I didn't read the entry. >_>