#intelligentlife — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #intelligentlife, aggregated by home.social.
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For me, the best thing about living alone in most of the circumstances (if mot the morals) of a hermit, is that mu main conversational partner is myself, which is nice, because I am almost guaranteed a stimulating, witty and insightful exchange! I always aim to please, even if the only person I please is myself!
#mentalhealth
#21stcentury
#thislife
#entetainment
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Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)
#HackerNews #Eternity #Intergalactic #Life #FermiParadox #SpaceExploration #IntelligentLife
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The evolution of universal language and mathematics.
Before words, there was number. From Contact to The Three-Body Problem, Story of Your Life to the Voyager Golden Records, etching our message into the fabric of the Cosmos - from ancient radio beaming out zeros and ones, consisting of the elements that make up DNA, to a new binary language in form of mathematics, chemistry, and biology.
Humanity has searched for a common thread in the language of the stars - hidden in the way we, and even bees, understand math.
#Bee #IntelligentLife #Extraterrestrial #Interstellar #Language #Mathematics #Math #Binary #Number #Science #Space
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🚀🤔 Oh, the audacity of science to suggest that Mars's atmosphere might not play by Earth's rules! Too bad the article got blocked faster than your hopes of finding intelligent life on Mars. 🔒💫
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-contrast-earth-mars-middle-atmosphere.html #MarsAtmosphere #ScienceNews #SpaceExploration #IntelligentLife #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
A groundbreaking study from Penn State challenges the 'hard steps' theory, suggesting that intelligent life may be more common in the universe than previously thought. Researchers propose that, given the right planetary conditions, the evolution of complex life is a predictable process rather than a rare fluke. This insight reshapes our understanding of life's potential beyond Earth.
#IntelligentLife #SpaceResearch #GoodNews
https://thedebrief.org/are-we-alone-intelligent-life-may-be-more-common-than-we-thought-new-penn-state-study-suggests/ -
We #Humans are embedded in a Web of #IntelligentLife, not the Pinnacle of a #Hierarchy
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/embedded-intelligent-hierarchy.html
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"I do not believe that we have been visited by #extraterrestrials. However, I do think it is quite possible, even likely, that #intelligentlife has emerged in many places in the #universe. The universe is an immensely large place with ... #stars within the visible part and since we know that the probability of intelligent life, let alone any kind of life, emerging is not zero (since it has happened here), it is not hard to imagine that it also emerged elsewhere."
https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2024/03/24/the-ufo-cult/
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Someone on Twitter/X asked a very interesting question: “Why do you think we haven’t been visited by aliens yet?”
There are many possible answers to the Fermi paradox, which is the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial intelligence and the lack of evidence for it.
Read more:
• https://www.seti.org/fermi-paradox-0
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#FermiParadox #ExtraterrestrialLife #IntelligentLife #Aliens #WhereIsEverybody #SETI #Fermi #Science
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If evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe were discovered, would it alter your core beliefs or sense of self?
#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #IntelligentLife #Life #Aliens #Universe #Beliefs #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe
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#Science 📆 31 Aug 2023 #human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 📉 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago. The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to #extinction ☠️. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/did-our-ancestors-become-an-endangered-species-a-million-years-ago
#Evolution #IntelligentLife #SETI
Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline_evolution_of_life.svg
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We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK - Enlarge (credit: Suchart Kuathan/Getty Images)
Silence. Comple... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939849 #extraterrestriallife #intelligentlife #fermiparadox #greatfilter #features #universe #science #space #seti
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Chatting with my good friend @glgrombacher about Life, the Universe, and Everything!
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RT @ourlifeblood
When looking for life in outer space, you need the right tool for the job. Dr. Gerard van Belle talks about telescope building and much more!
@fringedoctor
https://lifeblood.live/telescope-building-with-dr-gerard-van-belle/
#astronomy #intelligentlife #missiontomars
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Octopuses Get Strangely Cuddly On The Mood Drug Ecstasy
by Nell Greenfieldboyce, September 20, 2018
"The eight-legged invertebrates are separated from humans by more than 500 million years of evolution, Pungor says. Octopuses' closest relatives are creatures like snails and slugs, and their brains have a host of strange structures that evolved on a completely different trajectory from the human path.
"They have this huge complex brain that they've built, that has absolutely no business acting like ours does — but here they show that it does," says Pungor. 'The fact that they induced this very sort of gentle, cuddly behavior is really pretty fascinating.'"
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Octopuses may be so terrifyingly smart because they share humans' genes for intelligence
Genetic sequences called transposons help regulate learning.
By Donavyn Coffey
last updated November 14, 2022"Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly explain the cephalopods' remarkable intelligence: Its genes have a genetic quirk that is also seen in humans, a new study finds.
"The clues that scientists uncovered are called 'jumping genes,' or transposons, and they make up 45% of the human genome. Jumping genes are short sequences of DNA with the ability to copy and paste or cut and paste themselves to another location in the genome, and they've been linked to the evolution of genomes in multiple species. Genetic sequencing recently revealed that two species of octopus — Octopus vulgaris and Octopus bimaculoides — also have genomes that are filled with transposons, according to a study published May 18 in the journal BMC Biology.
"In both humans and octopuses, most transposons are dormant, either shut down due to mutations or blocked from replicating by cellular defenses, the study authors reported. But one kind of transposon in humans, known as the Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements or LINE, may still be active. Evidence from prior studies suggests that LINE jumping genes are tightly regulated by the brain, but are still important for learning (opens in new tab) and for memory formation in the hippocampus."'
#FactoryFarming #Octopuses #Octopi #IntelligentLife
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/jumping-genes-octopus-intelligence
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Octopus Intelligence Has Been Proven by Science—Here's How
By Robyn White On 2/24/22
"Plans are underway to open the world's first #octopus farm in #Spain—a move that has been met with considerable backlash from animal rights groups.
"Spanish seafood commercialization company Nueva Pescanova aims to open the octopus farm in 2023, to meet growing demands for the delicacy, Reuters reported. The company has poured $74 million into the project and claims it has optimized tanks that will ensure high welfare farming.
"Scientists have shown that octopuses feel pain and sadness, just like humans. Last year, the London School of Economics said octopuses were 'sentient beings,' meaning they are capable of processing complex emotions. The findings were based on over 300 existing scientific studies surrounding octopus behavior."
#FactoryFarming #Octopuses #Octopi #IntelligentLife
https://www.newsweek.com/octopus-intelligence-proven-science-1682196
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How Smart Is An #Octopus?
Written by John Staughton, 8 Jul 2022
"Octopi are highly intelligent creatures, displaying many behaviors that betray their intelligence. These eight-limbed beasts of the deep are able to use tools, solve problems, and even play when bored. Their unique location of neurons throughout their limbs allows them to smell, taste, touch, and act independently of one another. Additionally, their possession of a personality and ability to learn and remember lessons makes a strong case for an elevated level of intelligence."
#FactoryFarming #Octopuses #Octopi #IntelligentLife
Read more: https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/how-smart-is-an-octopus.html
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Did you ever wonder what humans would do if confronted with beings from another planet? If you guessed, "Factory-farm them and serve them for dinner," you're right!
New scientific paper claims #octopuses are actually aliens from outer space
by Joshua Hawkins, January 2022
"The paper itself claims that certain #cephalopods like octopuses, #squid, and others arrived on the planet by falling from space, frozen in a kind of stasis.
"'Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or #octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted,' the paper reads. The authors of the paper say that the octopus and other creatures benefit from biological features that appear to have been derived from 'some type of pre-existence.'"
#Aliens #OuterSpace #FactoryFarming #IntelligentLife
Read more: https://bgr.com/science/new-scientific-paper-claims-octopuses-are-actually-aliens-from-outer-space/
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You are #Special.
The #Universe is 68% #DarkEnergy & 27% #DarkMatter. The rest - everything we can detect & experience, everything we know, all #OrdinaryMatter - is less than 5% of the universe.
Of that 5%, think of the immensely small percentage that is #Life.
Of that immensely small percentage of that 5% that is life, think of the absurdly small percentage that is #IntelligentLife.
You are #Fringe, the most #Improbable & #Unimaginable thing to exist in the universe.
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Can there be life on planets without magnetic fields? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discuss exoplanets, extraterrestrials, and answer extraordinary questions from our fans with astrobiologist, David Grinspoon.
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If you find the question of whether we are alone in the galaxy interesting, you might find this lecture by David Kipping worth 25 minutes of your limited time on Earth. He argues for an agnostic position on the question. https://www.metafilter.com/197762/The-Case-for-Team-Non-Teeming
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One of the biggest questions in the universe is whether or not we are alone. The #FermiParadox seeks to answer this question and try to make sense of our place amongst the cosmos.
Read more: http://seti.harvard.edu/unusual_stuff/unpublished/fermi.htm
#SETI: https://www.seti.org/fermi-paradox-0
#WbW: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
#SpaceMastodon #Spacedon #Space #Astronomy #Astrodon #ScienceMastodon #Sciencedon #Science #Life #IntelligentLife #Aliens #Universe
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Which #planets are most likely to have #space faring #intelligentlife ? Well, that an interesting question. We look at super earths, and they will probably have the most variation of life therefore most quickly developing intelligent life, however with the intense gravity, the ability to explore space will take drastically longer as just a little payload will require a mega rocket. Also, the amount of food needed to power a human-like brain would be massive and just building muscle to counter the heavy gravity would require a ton of consumption, making packing that much food into a spacecraft even more difficult. Mars sized earth will have much lower biodiversity making their evolution much, much slower but space exploration will be much easier than on earth because of the light gravity, it may take forever for intelligent life to evolve but when they do, aerospace will be much simpler to explore. Lastly we come to tidally locked planets, these tend to revolve around red dwarfs and don't spin, one side it locked to the sun one side always pointing away like the moon does to earth. People on these planets will never even know stars exist til they start sending intrepid explorers to explore the dark side of the planet, and only then will they see stars for the first time. Some mega earths are thought to also have so many clouds from air density, they may also be obscured from clouds. Only when they have explored these hard to observe stars in the sky for perhaps centuries will they come to realize that the stars are other suns that also may maintain life. So what are the most likely planets to have space travel, well that would be our type. An earth sized middle-sized planet with enough biodiversity to develop intelligent life but low enough gravity to be able to break the bounds of the planet with a star and atmosphere that lets us see the stars and realize they too may have intelligent beings living on them.
