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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6668014" data-attributes="member: 13107">Hi,Yeah, for finding beings similar to us, we would want to look in locations similar to the surface of the earth.  Or at least, to finding similar life forms, although not necessarily intelligent ones.And some of the locations that I listed are extreme.  Active stars, certainly, don't seem very hospitable for complex structures.  But maybe very cold dwarfs might work.  Or might work eventually.  As I understand it, the cores of gas giants may be a solid hydrogen metal, but are also very very hot.  They too seem to be very extreme locations in which to envision complex structures.You could add to the list: the neutron star surfaces, or "the dynamic topology" of event horizons.  My list is informed by popular science fiction, which includes even more extreme examples.But, if any of these *could* support complex forms, and they offer very large* areas, they might be where intelligent life goes after a short time as meat creatures such as ourselves.*You would need to factor in scale changes.  The surface of a neutron star seems small, but if creatures that lived there were correspondingly small, the scale factor could even out.  Similarly, a complex structure in a solar interior might be very large, making the apparently large volume which is available not really that big.Thx!TomB</blockquote>