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posted by mrpg on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-space-things-are-relative dept.

Dr Colombano told Califoria's SETI-backed Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop back in March that scientists need to broaden their idea of what an extra-terrestrial would like like.

'I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn't already) might not be at all be produced by carbon based organisms like us,' his report read.

He added that scientists must 're-visit even our most cherished assumptions', which has implications for everything from an alien's lifespan to its height.

'The size of the 'explorer' might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity,' he says.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6457259/NASA-expert-says-alien-life-visited-Earth.html

Also at Tiny aliens may have visited us and we just didn't know: NASA scientist


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:15PM (#771628) Journal

    It was both an alien and NOT an alien....

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Immerman on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:12PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:12PM (#771970)

    ...born and raised right here on Earth.