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

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 ?

jimmy
No, it was a big rock

You've lost me again , i thought i was starting to sound intelligent.

Maybe it was a rock like this.

The rock you mention caused utter devastation everywhere, except in Australia!! Scientists at Leeds University have hypothesised that this is because Cathy Pacific and Quantas had not yet been formed and nobody went there. On the intelligent life debate, Drakes equation shows that the universe must be teeming with intelligent life in all places except the obvious (the surface of stars, Manchester, etc.), but the really significant thing about drakes equation is that it looked really good on a T-shirt until the day when people started wearing one that said "Frankie says Drake knows jack shit".

Who's Drake??

Charlie Drake..

Francis Drake

Brittney Drake

All Drake's

if i had to chose a drake for company on a desert island , i think i would have to go for brittney. i think the conversation would be rivetting!!!

Can't imagine for one moment what made you think of rivets (Oooo-errr, matron).