re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅

When it comes to alien forms of life we do not know what path evolution may take on other planets.

They could be organic or other forms such as “The Waveries” as devised by Frederick Brown or based on another atomic structure such as silicon or nitrogen based. They could even be based in another dimensional format such as Flatland.

I got a feeling that other intelligent beings may exist in places very few and far between. Intelligent life just may be an extremely rare occurrence in the universe.

Intelligent life could be surprisingly common, but advanced technological civilizations rare. For example, the people living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea have had a farming culture for thousands of years, but with virtually no contact with the outside world until the 20th Century never advanced beyond the Stone Age. And of course Cetaceans are highly intelligent, but with no hands or access to fire, they have no technology.