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Re:SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others by zardo on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:32PM (#46651003)
> Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately transmitting interstellar beacon signals will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is STFU.

Even if we credit the idea that it's unsafe to transmit, there are reasons to do it anyway, e.g. you have a holy text and a mission to share it with the universe.

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Re:SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others by CamperBob2 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:14PM (#46661046)
Even if we credit the idea that it's unsafe to transmit, there are reasons to do it anyway, e.g. you have a holy text and a mission to share it with the universe.

Sounds like a great sci-fi premise. "Hey, there aren't enough knock-down, drag-out religious wars on Earth. Let's start beef with the nuclear-armed, FTL-capable sky wizard cult on Epsilon Eridani 4."

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