>>11990126regardless of anthropocentric symbolism i think it still applies because an arrow shows in its tip a wide part and a narrow part, like a funnel. so information isn't just pointed at like how we understand a spear, but also condensed from thin at the base to dense at the tip, it suggests there's something at the tip that once was at the base or vice versa, in either case also suggesting a direction.
other intelligent lifeforms must have come across a funnel at some point.
regardless, space is so unbelievably vast and time frames are so widespread that it feels like we need to impose information into colliding black holes or neutron stars for eons to make ourselves known to others. what if a civilization sent strong and unambiguous radio waves to us for a whopping 10 million years because they picked up oxygen in our atmosphere, but unfortunately for them they reached us around the time dinosaurs died out?
what could that small plaque accomplish? the chance of its discovery is only for one reason not the absolute number 0, merely because it exists.
