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

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).

nice chinos bosley......hope they are paid for .

now here is a poser.

you are in a lift staring down the cleavage of the woman opposite. THEN.....your worst nightmare. the cable breaks sending you to a very messy death in the basement ( forget the auto brakes ). OR DOES IT?

what actually will happen is that the lift will shoot UP to the top of the building where you will be squished anyway. at least the surprise wrt direction will take your mind off your impending demise.

not a lot of people know that ( ask a lift engineer ).

A bit of non intelligents or from the unintelligent

insiderinside - 11 Aug 2005 07:11 - 8299 of 8305
Lets take 4 words
Due
Responsibility
Diligence
Accountability.
All just simple guesses and IMO and must not be misunderstood of course in the event you could misunderstand any meaning you should ignore this post.

I would very happily ignore all ii's posts were it not for the inherant comedy value.

There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 4

On the other hand, there are some common behaviors among animals that seem to favor intelligence. Social interaction, for example. If youre a critter that hangs out with others, then theres clearly an advantage in being smart enough to gauge the intentions of the guy sitting next to you (before he nabs your mate or your meal). And if youre clever enough to outwit the other members of your social circle, youll probably have enhanced opportunity to breed (to put it graciously), thus passing on your superior smarts.

Predator-prey relations are another type of interaction that can ratchet up intelligence. When a lioness catches a wildebeest, shes more likely to snag the dumb one that wasnt paying attention. Result? The lioness has a meal, but the average IQ of the wildebeests has been raised. This puts the lions under increased pressure in running down their next meal, and the dumber cats will preferentially drop out of the gene pool. Both predator and prey will be under selective pressure for intelligence.

All of this sounds as if Nature whether on our planet or some alien world will stumble into increased IQ sooner or later. But keep in mind that many of the dinosaurs were in predator-prey relations (and may have been somewhat social, too). Why didnt they get smart? After all, they had 140 million years to do so.

When it comes to the evolution of intelligence, the bottom line is that we dont know the bottom line. And indeed, we may never know how likely it is that intelligence will appear unless and until we find it elsewhere. So well keep deploying those SETI telescopes.

Cosmic !!