Intelligent Life Can't Exist Anywhere Else (2020)

Heck, that spot in Jupiter could be a 2000 million years old conscius, "alive" entity.

For a thing like that, humans would be like amoebas are to us, and probably will take to humanity maybe hundreds of thousands of years in evolution in every aspect to reach the point where we could go and say "hey, hi there".

Humans have a tremendously inflated of sense of superiority for simple developments achieved, like science, technology, language, etc. And little aprecciation for hard to achieve developments like real sustainability beyond just consuming every natural resource available around us, true value grow beyond simple economic grow,

which means we gave culture and true adaptation to environments the simplest meaning possible: everything we create at some point are just the means to survive, to fully dominate the ground.

You know, sustainability is what we know for certain the key development to be achieved if you want your species to keep evolving a billion of years in the future. Just like that, take a look to an aligator and see what an incredible achievement is that, they were side by side with dinosaurs, and now are here, with us.

The most advanced intelligent species on Earth couldn't be us humans, but maybe those hive-forest of thousands of years old, maybe whales are vastly intelligent, so high in the tree of evolution that they are completely alien to us, and we see the lack of "civilization" as false symbol of lack of intelligence. Similarly we could think about the dolphins, octopuses, elephants, etc.

These species have already thrived on Earth for millions of years, in full symbiosis with the planet, overcoming unthinkable threats and deadly planetary events, they don't even require technology to feed themselves as species and keep persisting along extremely long periods of time, they have culture, language, even individual personalities,

but hey, they can't be conscious because they don't talk aloud with humans, and of course they can't be conscius because they don't build technology.

(but you know, culture and language ARE technology and under this standard their technology would have millions of years of refinenment).

Maybe we - as a species - have gave a lot more of credit to "organized civilization" of what actually is its real value.