Whoa, is that a sexually transmitted disease?
Seriously though, that was a well written excursion into undersea life.
>"In the bottom-dwelling colonial form, they have intimate access to their fellows, forming reefs and other permanent structures that attract entire ecologies that both depend on and service numerous symbiotic, parasitic and predatory relationships....they have learned to coordinate their activities and act and react as a single living thing"
I can see your way of thinking, and it made me wonder how adaptive (and destructive) WE are as a "species" on this planet. Will we adapt, for instance, as we all hit the wall this time as a critical mass?
As for MY strange version of ETI, well it's not physical, but ethereal.
But that's left for a much later discussion. It's late.
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"Sessile hermaphroditic colonial polyps"
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