Re: planets
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 22:36 |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:
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>Wouldn't there need to be some kind of pressure on the octopus population
>in order to select for intelligence? Hmm. Maybe we should uplift
>octopuses; then we wouldn't be so lonely. I wonder what octopus speech
>would be like. Do they make noises?
>
Perhaps survival in the trecherous world of the abysmal deep? Not too
different in many ways from our early ancestors: soft-n-juicy, not
much in the way of pointy teeth or defence mechanisms except by
running away. Apparently octopi can figure things out and teach others
- not too dissimilarly from us.
I don't think they make noises. I don't think they have ears.
Perhaps they use sign language - or maybe make use of electricity.
Perhaps a kind of telepathy? Can they detect electrical charges from
their medium?
Padraic.