This is actually pretty neat. We’re stepping closer to a sort of Star Trek “subspace communication”; instantaneous communication between two locations no matter how far apart.
I was thinking of Stargate Destiny and the freaky spirit possession stones.
I actually think that if there are advanced technological species in the universe that this is how they communicate, and that radio waves are a very short lived technology. We don’t rely on smoke signals or pony express anymore. I’d estimate that radio communications only last around 200 years in the lifespan in a technologically progressing species. And the odds of two species employing this technology for another to detect it (remember it can take centuries to reach another star) are zilch.
”Hey, how come nobody is transmitting their planet’s ‘I Love Lucy’ to us?
Spot on...