[pciexpgpu]

Not at all familiar with biochemistry but octopuses are aliens on earth with very different evolutionary track having developed ‘brains’ before our ancestors did independently! It’s crazy we don’t study things like cephalopods like we do SETI etc…

[tayo42]

When ever people talk about terraforming planets I just think they sound insane. Like we don't know how a majority of our own planet even works yet you think we can recreate it?

If someone told me that we know more about space then our own oceans I wouldn't be surprised.

[4gotunameagain]

it's not an either-or. we can do both, in fact we should do both.

[KineticLensman]

> octopuses are aliens on earth with very different evolutionary track having developed ‘brains’ before our ancestors did independently

IIRC octopuses appeared in the Jurassic era by which time 'brains' were well established amongst our ancestors, notably the earliest proto-mammals.

I agree that they are an interesting form of alternative intelligence and parallel evolution, but biochemically they have numerous things in common with us, including many gene systems that are highly conserved across a variety of different clades, including our own.