• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    I don’t know specifically about fire but I think the square-cube law plays a significant factor in the idea that alien life would be similar in scale to humans.

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      7 days ago

      Yea probably within an order of magnitude or so - then again, elephants are probably within an order of magnitude of size of humans. I don’t see why elephants couldn’t eventually evolve to an intelligent civilisation, given enough time. I’d say that’s still pretty large.

      But yea I mean the blue whale and the largest dinosaurs are probably about the limit of how large life can get, at least with Earth conditions.