Very possible. Any idea what the right thing would be?
I just mentioned - idiocy, and its source - idiots. Starting from what is familiar - the majority of electromagnetic [so-called informational] emissions from Earth consists of commercials, soap operas, cacophonous howling and other suchlike. The informational value is very low, and antillectual level is close to zero or negative. So, if one was to search for intelligent life on Earth from the sewage we pour out, one would conclude that the planet is devoid of intelligence [if one was looking for higher intellectual achievement]. If, OTOH, one would recognize that the idiotic trash we are spewing is, indeed, our intelligence [or whatever passes for it], then identification of planet Earth with intelligent life would be unmistakable. One does not even need to go into electromagnetic emissions. If one is visiting an exotic tribe, the chances of encountering the local Einstein are small, but chances of hitting upon an aborigine who is simultaneously picking his left nostril with his left hand, his right nostril with the right hand, and is drooling at the same time are much greater. Generalizing from this, one comes to the statement that the majority of antillectual output occurs at very low to negative levels.