Quote Originally Posted by Stormhammer
well for intelligent life, it could still be an animal or something

I've been following the mission to one of Jupiter's moons - the one thats all covered in ice, because a scan of it showed a heated core - if theres miles and miles of ice on the outside, and a heated core on the inside - that means water - and life lives in water - they're still trying to come up with an idea of how to get through all of that ice

no by intelligent i mean something on the scale of human beings. Create advanced tools (more complex than monkeys poking antpiles with sticks). Modify environment. Cultured, creativity, beyond basic survival instincts, and simple 2 dimensional thoughts. For example an ape... intelligent animals... but not "intelligent life forms" in the same way that humans and "ET"-like aliens are.