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.
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:03AM (3 children)
Being n-ass-a, they cannot entertain the idea that aliens do not have to have physical bodies like we think we do.
They might travel through the mind, like a thought(s) traveling through space. The boxed-in thinking of people who should have open minds is one reason we are still stuck on this rock doing physical things and buying low quality chinese electronics with little green pieces of paper.
Also, where is the evidence of tiny beings?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:49AM
This. It proves my point that ending climate change is equal to ending racism.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:15AM
Well, uh, I don't see any big ones, um, so...
(Score: 2) by leftover on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:27AM
Tardigrades?
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.