On Aug 1, 3:44 am, Ian Parker wrote:

What is required for an interstellar trip. First of all it is in the
far future, or possibly not that far in geological terms. A probe wil
need to operate autonomously. If our large telescope tells us there is
a possibility of intelligent life it will need to have language
learing ability. The Hittite language was decoded with one phrase. :-

"Now you can eat bread and drink water".

There is a method of doing this.

- Ian Parker

I agree that AI probes need to be sent towards the most likely of
places where intelligent other life could have emerged or having been
otherwise established. One such location is merely 100 fold the
distance of our moon.
- Brad Guth