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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: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:03AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:03AM (#771726)

    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?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:49AM (#771739)

    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

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:15AM (#771749) Journal

    Also, where is the evidence of tiny beings?

    Well, uh, I don't see any big ones, um, so...

  • (Score: 2) by leftover on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:27AM

    by leftover (2448) on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:27AM (#771757)

    Tardigrades?

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