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Hekate

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14. They are incredibly intelligent. I don't eat them any more.

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 03:24 AM

Jun 2016

I've long thought that First Contact with alien (so to speak) intelligent lifeforms has already taken place, but we have not seen it for what it is because it is in the vast oceans of our own planet. All the markers of what we think of as civilization are very likely there, but we have not yet managed to decode and interpret the language.

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