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Originally Posted by crockett
Technology is a condition that we set as a standard, but it doesn't mean that is the same for all life everywhere. What if there is a microbe type of life form that has mastered the ability to transfer its self from one planet to another by means of hitching a ride on asteroids. Maybe it can even steer the asteroid where ever it wants by farting in one direction or another..
No technology needed, it just floats in space with no technical abilities, hitches rides around the galaxy on rocks where it finally falls onto that planet where it replicates as a virus and kills off anything in it's way. No arms, no legs and no technology as we see it needed yet it's conscious and knows what it does.
How can we just assume that it's not intelligent life, just because it doesn't fit in our narrow description?
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But that is technology
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Technology (from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia[1]) is the collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures
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And that's one of the debates re: Hansen's list. An Asteroid is a technological tool and the assumption is that Tool using animals also require big brains. That's based on earth biology, perhaps it is too big an assumption but I believe it valid assumption.
but I'm all for correcting the assumptions, but I think the list is pretty solid, especially when we take into account that we CLEARLY have not been colonized or even communicated to/with from ETs.
Let's assume your idea happens to be true, a microbe figures out how to hitch a ride on an asteroid. then the premise is they are intelligent enough to realize the value and need to colonize, that's why they caught that ride. That level of intelligence also is highly capable of communication, and other things.