For the boring rationalist in you , here's the study stripped of the sensationalism: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v524/n7564/full/nature14668.html
For the others: we knew it! prehensile numerous appendices, brain to body enormous ratio, war camouflage, omnivorous, squishyness.. On a planet where water resource came from comet! We fucking knew it! We found your Von Neuman probe filthy Proximatorians
Obligatory If anyone cares, I read the source paper today, since I find the topic somewhat interesting. Can answer questions if people have any
Octopuses are not aliens Heck, in my university official record I am marked as an "alien".
At this point, I think we should at least afford them the title of "naturalized earthlings" they've been around for a while. I had no idea that there was such a thing as jumping genes... This article is going to spawn off an awful lot of associated reading.
Hey man, I'm really not trying to hate here, but this is really a place where you try to spread your ideas; whether they're about your own unique thoughts or someone else's or maybe just an event. The point of a forum like Hubski, however, is not to only quote someone else's single thought. It's not truly adding to the conversation.
Er, I was spreading an idea that was someone else's. That's what posts are. Would you rather it were a post instead of a comment? Or if I linked to a webpage with the quote? Or an essay instead of a sentence? Or if I added my own commentary? "I agree with and find insightful what Clarke said." I thought that was implied. I could have said "It's scary to think aliens might exist, but it's also scary to think that we could be alone (Clarke said something to the same effect)." But that seems unnecessary and verbose to me. What adds to the conversation is entirely relative. I don't think lots of things add to conversation. I don't share those things. I personally love quotes; I think they're great, succinct ways to condense and share big ideas. You're assuming everyone else shares your values. Everyone is different, and thinks differently, and values different things. And that's okay. People typically express this on hubski by simply not sharing what they don't value, and following those whose values align with theirs. Incidentally, it sounds like you might prefer to filter https://hubski.com/tag?id=quotespornIt's not truly adding to the conversation.
The point of a forum like Hubski
The octopus has eight of something. If they’re legs then all the arms are missing. Nature often makes mistakes in distribution. You’d think it would be more distressing. Too many rubber legs with suckers, too many sets of teeth on top each other: some button in the shop stuck on or off. Sometimes a brain-feed sticks until the brain that gets delivered has a hundred times the strength it needs in nature. Which changes nature. A hundred other creatures gang together in a chain of mutual interest they wouldn’t have perceived without the strange intelligence. -Kay Ryan, 2012The Octopus
I guess Lovecraft too. Something squishy coming from the stars and sleeping deep under the sea, dreaming...
Huh? It is literally the same title as the linked article. Submitter did not write that.