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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6667865" data-attributes="member: 13107">Forking this from: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?462203-Alien-Intelligence" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?462203-Alien-Intelligence</a>Was wondering what other locations might support intelligent life.A starting point is to wonder what other locations would provide more real estate, which I suppose should be called state space, than our single planet.That lead me to catalog locations which have been used in science fiction, and to compare the available real estate with that of the earth.  Then:* Stars, either, in a volume, or on a boundary.* Gas giants, either, in the clouds, or in the solid core -- taken as a very large computing substrate.* Asteroids and other near solar orbit small bodies* Oort cloud and Kuiper belt and other far solar orbit small bodies.* Interstellar cloudsMy thesis is that if any of these supports intelligent life and provides a significantly larger amount of space to inhabit, then intelligent life might inevitably migrate to one of these locations, and the reason that we aren't detecting other intelligent life is that we communicate to beings in these locations only with great difficulty.  Far orbit creatures might be converse on a different time scale.  Computational beings living in the core of a gas giant?  Not even sure how we would converse with those.Thx!TomB</blockquote>