<story><title>The Mind of an Octopus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroer</author><text>&amp;gt; They are probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve often thought that while we say we would want peaceful relationships with any aliens we might find, our history of interactions with &amp;quot;alien&amp;quot; life forms on Earth paints a different picture.  I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure if we meet alien life and it&amp;#x27;s not stronger than us, somebody&amp;#x27;s going to try to eat it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srum</author><text>The flip side of that is, if they are stronger than us, many would  take it for granted that they would attempt to communicate with us, even though we&amp;#x27;ve made no such attempt to do the same with species on our own planet.&lt;p&gt;Peter Gabriel has though tbf&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petergabriel.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-interspecies-internet&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petergabriel.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-interspecies-internet&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_in_progress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Mind of an Octopus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroer</author><text>&amp;gt; They are probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve often thought that while we say we would want peaceful relationships with any aliens we might find, our history of interactions with &amp;quot;alien&amp;quot; life forms on Earth paints a different picture.  I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure if we meet alien life and it&amp;#x27;s not stronger than us, somebody&amp;#x27;s going to try to eat it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cema</author><text>True, at first. But then things may change.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, they might want to eat us too, so be careful.</text></comment>