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If you wanted to communicate across the universe how would you do it? How would you leave your mark on existance?
Would you launch a satellite encoded with an audio, video or visual message for intelligent life to decode? How long would it take for your message to arrive?
What about radio waves? Would you send a transmission in the hopes that an intelligent life form would had the right type of receiver for the frequency you have sent out?
Terence McKenna once stated that “To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant”
What if there were another way? Would if it had already previously been done?
Back in 1979 a journal under Carl Sagan published an article about the possibility that intelligent life had left its signature in the DNA strand of a virus found in intestinal bacteria. The Search for Extraterrestrial intelligent life turned its focus to biology at that time. In the journal the article was titled “Is bacteriophage X174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence?” and was written by Japanese biochemists Hiromitsu Yokoo and Tairo Oshima.