Planet Crowdsource: Meet the Neighbors, Part Two

[jeriendhal]

First off, please forgive the tardiness of this poll. I've been fighting my annual Seasonal Affective Disorder along with some other stress related events, so I've allowed myself to get off schedule, again. Hopefully with the resurgence of the Daystar I'll get better about the whole thing.

Anyway, back at Part Nine of Planet Crowdsource, we asked if there was native sentient life on the planet. After considerable back and forth during the polling period, it was settled with definite "We're not sure" by six votes (54.4%). By a much more unambigious margin, the level of sentience was agreed to be "How smart are they?"/"We don't know, and we DON'T want to find out!" again by six votes and (54.4%).

So all in all we've got considerable confusion about who lives there. Whatever it is, it's difficult to even define as sentient, and it may be smart enough to give humans a run for their money.


[Poll #1885085]

Comments

[seawasp]

The first bit there should be checkboxes, not radio buttons. Earth has multiple kinds (animal, vegetable, protist, fungi, archaebacteria, and eubacteria) and I'd presume this world has multiple types as well. Could even have multiple *types* of life (nothing preventing carbon-based lifeforms from sharing a world with equally complex silicon)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I realize any world is probably going to have multiple forms of life to occupy ecological niches, but in this case I was just refering to local sentient life.

[seawasp]

Ah. That wasn't how I read it, but even so, it should have been checkboxes. Nothing saying you HAVE to have only one sentient/sapient species. There are those who would argue that the only planet we know of with such species, Earth, has more than one.