Country Loon  wrote or quoted:
> "Catherine Woodgold"  wrote
in message
> > "Country Loon" (fitlikemin{at}mearns.fairmers.co.uk) writes:

> > > I doubt a water based lifeform could develop much technology as the
> > > water would get in the way! You could not develop electronics for 
> > > instance under water - you need a dry environment.
> >
> > Somewhere in another galaxy there may be an underwater
> > creature saying "I doubt a land based lifeform could develop
> > much technology, as the air would get in the way!  You could
> > not develop chemistry, for instance, in the air -- you need
> > a wet environment."
>
> That's true and I had though that maybe a sea born life could foresee the
> need for technologies that are dry but it sure would make things hard in the
> electrical world and they would still need manipulators of some sort.

Underwater electronics seems like a simple enough proposition.  All you 
need is insulators.  Underwater creatures seem to have plenty of those 
available to them - in the form of materials such as fats.

The nervous system in undersea creatures works largely on electrical 
impulses - it seems that evolution cracked the "underwater electronics" 
problems long ago.

As far as manipulators go - check out an octopus ;-)
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