They may as well have called the recent meeting of SETI researchers and anthropologists a sci-fi fantasy convention for fanboys. The SETI boys need to concentrate on theoretical physics to make meaningful communication possible, not debate whether intelligent life can derive calculus from counting on their tentacles. Any attempt at communication based on light propagation will be doomed to failure because we don't have human social structures in place that can wait for a return message 600 years in the future. Better to have debated which is better: Star Trek universe versus Star Wars universe, and then play some D&D while chugging Mountain Dew and Jolt.
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