Better chance of picking it up than the scattered sphere of electromagnetic
noise our planet has been producing for about a century now.

Of course while there may not be much of a chance of detection at Polaris,
unless an expedition happens to be there 431 years from now, does anyone
know what stars are in the near vicinty before and after the North Star and
if any of them are potentially stable enough to be friendly to life?

And with all the hulabaloo about not sending out messages of any kind
until a group representing humanity has had a chance to discuss and
study such a thing, how does NASA explain this act? It is pretty
obvious that relatively few people were included on this project.

Ironic if the Beatles change music on a galactic scale.