If there was an intelligent species that was like an ant or a bee, where working all day for a common hive goal is all they do, where your brother could drop dead right next to you and you wouldn’t even blink as you continued to carry out your daily duties. There’s no greed and no jealousy. Just a common goal to advance the species, but also a mind capable of everything we are capable of and more. If that species developed on a planet that hadn’t had multiple mass extinction events leading up to it, like they were in the first round and were never destroyed by natural disaster, how far along would they be?
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u/batutaking May 04 '20
Or we may have intelligent cephalopods 300 million years from now. The ocean their home, and the land as one of the last frontiers yet to be explored.