system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are we trying to get in contact with aliens if messages will take millions or billions of years to go back and forth? (And they might not even be able to catch it or decipher it then)

It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to waste any time doing that. If I send a message today and I receive the response millions of years from today, how is humanity going to keep track of the conversation?
gpt
I don't think anyone is trying to find a *conversation* here.

Any sign of intelligent life present elsewhere in the universe would be interesting, even if it was just alien sitcom broadcasts we accidentally receive.