Babak Makkinejad's Blog (1)

I am interested in using slime molds, alga, fungi, or bacteria for the purpose of interstellar messaging in lieu of other physical objects such as the plaque on the Voyager space crafts.

In other words, let us encode our messages to any sentient intelligence out there in such organisms and then communicate that message by spreading the spores of those organisms - with a suitable delivery capsule for re-entry into planetary atmospheres - into outer space.

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