Extraterrestrial civilizations may find it more efficient to communicate by sending material objects across interstellar distances rather than beams of electromagnetic radiation.
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Sullivan, W. Message in a bottle. Nature 431, 27–28 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/431027a
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