This thread is for the more intelligent, any intelligent thoughts can be posted here by the more intelligent amongst us.
The thread is dedicated to bosley (bos) who only wants the more intelligent thoughts posted here.

Imagination is more important than knowledge; Einstein

There may be a lot of life in the universe. If so, its a safe bet that most of it will score lower on the SATs than you.
Just consider the situation on one planet: ours. There are millions of species on Earth. Millions. Among this protoplasmic plentitude, how many species are smart enough to be interesting on the telephone or able to help you with Sundays crossword? Well, theres Homo sapiens, and then theres nobody.

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There you go driver, he looks intelligent

But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!

But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!

OOps. Bloody computers on the fritz again. Must be the wrong equation after all, and thats what causes my computer to go wrong.

Nothnig rong wiht biegn dislexxic alen..

There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 2

Is this a momentous fact or not? Is the circumstance that we can look around and find were the brainiest boffins on the planet merely a trivial result of being the first species able to notice? Or is there some reason to think that intelligence is actually a rare and unlikely evolutionary development, and Homo sapiens has lucked out?

This is more than just another good question to bandy about after dinner, between the cigars and the port. It goes right to the heart of our place in the universe. And its also of obvious and critical importance to SETI researchers. After all, were on a fools mission deploying our SETI telescopes if theres no intelligent life out there.

why would there be any intelligent life out there? there's none in here.

Namreh
sorry for late reply....I HAVE A LIFE...LOL.

a vacuum cannot exist because everything has a vapour pressure ( a few atoms escape from ANY matter all the time ) . neutrinos travel at ( or very close to ) the speed of light so weigh nothing or as close to nothing as makes no odds. every day of your life a billion billion billion neutrinos pass through the average body. the chance of just ONE hitting a body particle in your lifetime is about evens.

and if it did you wouldnt even feel it

superrod, i couldn't find a pic of neutrinos, but i did find some new chinos

oh, heres some.

nah
neutrinos are black, thats why you cant see them.

is that better , superrod?

There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 3
So how can we judge whether intelligence is a likely evolutionary development or not? We do the obvious, and look for hints in Earths history. Earth is, after all, the only example we have. Since high IQ critters appeared here, theres a tendency to assume that our planet is just another typical, run-of-the-mill rocky world, and what happened on our planet might happen on their planet, too. Sooner or later, intelligence will arise.

But there are flies in this ointment. Sixty-five million years ago, a rock the size of Brooklyn slammed into the Earth, wiping out three-fourths of all species, including the dinosaurs. If this hadnt happened, the rat-like mammals that eventually evolved into Homo sapiens wouldnt have inherited the world. And 245 million years ago, another catastrophe (known in polite society as the Permian extinction) wrote finis to an even larger percentage of species. These cosmic accidents were all forks in the long road that eventually led to us. Maybe on other worlds, the road never gets that far.

That's a pair of dockers bos, do you want those , what size are they ?

Dunno about you, but I can still see them.

jimmy
You keeping up part 4 coming soon.

Sixty-five million years ago, a rock the size of Brooklyn slammed into the Earth, wiping out three-fourths of all species, including the dinosaurs

That's the bit i don't get driver , if the rock was the size of Brooklyn how did it do that much damage ?unless three fourths of the species just happened to be in that area , maybe there was an event going on and they were all congregating in one place..Does that sound sensible ?