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Ok, so lets say intelligent aliens that can space travel turn out to be real. What do you imagine they would look like and what would their goals be? What planet would they be from? (media4.giphy.com)

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Personally, I like the idea of some sort of fuzzy subterranean gremlins from Mars.

Elon arrives and they prank him to death.

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[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it definitely feels like if cephalopods had longer life spans and began passing on knowledge, there's a good chance they'd evolve to be pretty intelligent over time.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the biggest hurdle is the ocean environment. It is hard to create lasting change in the environment so there is a limit to how much intelligent action can contribute to reproductive advantage. As it stands they are probably near human level intelligence just specialized in ways we can't communicate with.