Steve Games

I see the undersea intelligences as having cold-blooded systems with two hearts, like fish, and a skin closer to that of a shark than human flesh. They would have some gas-based organs that would be depth sensitive and unable to survive the lighter pressures of the shallow seas inhabited by submarines and scuba divers. In fact, they would know nothing of the surface world at all until technologically advanced enough to explore it.

Are humans a minority among the intelligent populations of Earth? There are, roughly, 7 billion moderately intelligent human beings on Earth. There are 8 billion intelligent Horizos in the sea. Ten billion intelligent Vertics as well. And 25,748,583,684 very intelligent tangleshocks. http://www.tangleshock.wordpress.com A variety of immediate concerns revolve around technology, environmental stimulants for evolution, energy sources and such: how would an undersea world support a civilized society? I believe that these issues can be realistically addressed. Because we know so little about such a vast area - the oceans hold 300 times the living space of the surface world - there remains much to be discovered.