2007-09-17 23:47:04 · 37 answers · asked by Smurf 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Come on! We can barely go 5 minutes without blowing each other up, I'd hardly call that smart, would you?
2007-09-17 23:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by Vivi 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Since we exist there is no reason to think we are alone. As the universe is so huge with countless stars with planets there has to be other life forms. As the age of the universe is approx 13.7 billion years and the earth is 3.5 billion years. It has taken 3.5 billion yrs to create us. The life time of a species on earth is somewhere between 2 to 10 million yrs; so the chances of a number intelligent life forms happening at the same time >1 is remote. With enormous distances between stars it is unlikely and we will never know that there are just or more intelligent beings like us. So far to us the tyranny of distance has no practical solution. The only way we may find out another intelligence if they have mastered wireless communication and they are within 100 light yrs of us. Therefore with too few stars within this range for there to be any sort of luck to struck pay dirt. Seti might find locally generated signals further a field but would require power of transmitters beyond what ever we have built to date. To overcome galactic radio noise one would require powerful transmitters approaching the power of our sun.
2016-05-17 12:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's the dolphins, or the mice. Haven't you ever read The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
2007-09-17 23:51:41 · answer #3 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm here till the dolphins evolve into a land based lifeform and make me do tricks for fish.
2007-09-17 23:52:24 · answer #4 · answered by majoti 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's only because we have intelligence that we think that we know this.
However, we may measure intelligence differently to the other animals on the planet - and they may think differently !
2007-09-17 23:54:58 · answer #5 · answered by Robert W 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cats are smarter or they'd be the ones going out to work instead of lazing around all day waiting for us to come home and feed them!
2007-09-17 23:54:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have the power to destroy the Earth completely. I don't know if that qualifies as intelligent or utterly stupid.
2007-09-17 23:52:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Bloody hell no-ever tried to keep a Jack Russell indoors-
A million different ways to escape are always found lol ;-) !!xx
2007-09-18 11:49:50 · answer #8 · answered by SUZANNE R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, wer are the third most intelligent, after mice and dolphins, in that order.
if youd read your hitch hikers guide to the galaxy correctly youd have known that.
2007-09-18 00:05:09 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What`s earth?
2007-09-17 23:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by Untold 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋