The (futuristic) act of broadcasting a viral code to any other planetary life sufficiently advanced to receive and decode transmission by computer. The signal contains a virus with a set of instructions to hijack the signal-receiving computer system to create an AGI (artificial general intelligence) system that will itself build a giant broadcasting station using any and all possible resources in order to broadcast the same message onwards in the universe. The alien life’s computer system need only receive the signal to be infected by its instruction code. This definition is just a more intuitive term than its original term, the Hail Mary approach, to connecting to or reaching the entire universe.
We can’t even reach one percent of the visible universe with our current tech, unless we opt for cosmic phishing.
by BigLud July 1, 2019