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. . . some SETI folks don't see the truly advanced societies talking between the stars and each other with anything as primitive as radio . . .

I've heard this before -- so have we all -- that "truly advanced" inevitably includes a way of getting around c. I've speculated to myself that perhaps, if the 11-dimensional superstring model is accurate, the key might be in manipulating one or more of the Folded 7 -- then balked at the enormous amount of energy it would require.

What good is a communications device that needs an entire planet's power grid just to turn on?

Which brings me back to the realism that all we (and everyone else) have in normal 4D spacetime is the electromagnetic spectrum. Pick a wavelength, modulate it by amplitude or frequency shift or both, as you will -- it's all "radio".

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