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Warpy

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2. Would we even recognize it as life?

Reply to De Leonist (Original post)

Mon Feb 16, 2015, 05:31 AM

Feb 2015

We barely recognize sentience with our fellow beings on this planet and communicating with them directly is in its infancy, even when their brain sizes and structures are similar to or greater than ours---and we share a planetary and historical reference point.

We won't share that point with life elsewhere. We are nowhere near being able to confront alien life.

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I was just watching Farscape and.... [View all] De Leonist Feb 2015 OP

I used to sit in class at school and wonder... Binkie The Clown Feb 2015 #1

Would we even recognize it as life? Warpy Feb 2015 #2

Me, too. However... longship Feb 2015 #3

Unfotunately, if evolution is universal... William Seger Feb 2015 #4

Well, there is that argument. longship Feb 2015 #5

a lot of humans would take the opportunity to be Tlaxcalans, I might add MisterP Feb 2015 #6

Plethora of assumptions in OP &replies. Panich52 Feb 2015 #7