Simon Laub wrote:
[...]

    A better solution would be to have messages inserted
into something that is small, cheap, self-repairing and self-replicating.
And which is always close to the species (dummies)
you want to contact. Something that keep copying the information
over immense durations and despite whatever unforseen environmental
hazards might pop up.

    And we have such things - they are called cells!

[...]

Indeed, we ourselves could be 'The Message'.

We just need to find the appropriate answers and their associated questions...


...And then there is the "42" scenario.

Good luck,
Martin


("42": See the writings of Douglas Adams.)