Of course there is life elsewhere in the universe.
We already have dicovered that there is life elswhere and even that "they"
have been here. But we have not been able to make contact with them.
Beacon yes of course.
All kinds of data should be sent starting with simpler kinds of data
and maybe escalate over increasing frequency the complicity of the data sent.
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