If you read: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/social-media-literacy-crisis/686076/ What do you think of the concept that how humans think depends upon how they communicate? In 1974, NASA, in collaboration with scientists from the Arecibo Observatory and Cornell University, sent a radio message into space aimed at the globular star cluster Messier 13 (M13), about 25,000 light-years away. In light of this article, should NASA send a new message now (or every 100 years or so)?

I have no doubt that human communication methods affect the way we think. Even before the findings cited in The Atlantic, I saw plenty of examples of that in everyday life, which scientists would term anecdotal, but massive anecdotal evidence amounts to statistics. That said, I doubt that messages sent 25,000 lightyears away — unless intercepted by star-spanning intelligent aliens — are anything but a gesture, since I have doubts that humanity can maintain a high tech society for that long, not unless our intraspecies communications skills and perceptions increase significantly.