That's a great point! One crazy thing I think about with a hypothetical Europa species is how it might look at the cosmos. Under kilometers of ice they'd have no direct way to observe even the solar system. Imagine some Europa alien hypothesizing the existence of the Sun, pointing a device up through the ice and detecting not just our star, but a universe full of them. Who knows, maybe there are aliens out there as you described, just waiting in hopes that someone will someday find them, and whisk them off their planetary prison.
That’s an interesting hypothetical. I’m sure there are some short stories, or a Star Trek episode (there are literally hundreds of Star Trek episodes) that covers these concepts. Spock would say, ‘Fascinating’.
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u/CrazyCalYa 2d ago
That's a great point! One crazy thing I think about with a hypothetical Europa species is how it might look at the cosmos. Under kilometers of ice they'd have no direct way to observe even the solar system. Imagine some Europa alien hypothesizing the existence of the Sun, pointing a device up through the ice and detecting not just our star, but a universe full of them. Who knows, maybe there are aliens out there as you described, just waiting in hopes that someone will someday find them, and whisk them off their planetary prison.