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Originally Posted by dyna mo
but dolphins are very much not within the definition of technology capable intelligent life. that's the requirement here, not life, not somewhere between life and technlogy producing life, but civilizations that are capable of at the very least, what we humans are capable of. dolphins don't build spacecraft, for instance. they haven't gone to the moon.
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Technology is a condition that we set as a standard, but it doesn't mean that is the same for all life everywhere. What if there is a microbe type of life form that has mastered the ability to transfer its self from one planet to another by means of hitching a ride on asteroids. Maybe it can even steer the asteroid where ever it wants by farting in one direction or another..
No technology needed, it just floats in space with no technical abilities, hitches rides around the galaxy on rocks where it finally falls onto that planet and replicates as a virus then kills off anything in it's way. No arms, no legs and no technology as we see it needed yet it's conscious and knows what it does.
How can we just assume that it's not intelligent life, just because it doesn't fit in our narrow description?