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Given that we haven't even done a thorough search of a single planet in our own solar system yet(we're only beginning to scratch the surface on Mars), these sor
by StanislavPetrov 5y ago
Given that we haven't even done a thorough search of a single planet in our own solar system yet(we're only beginning to scratch the surface on Mars), these sort of articles should be taken with a giant grain of salt. They failed to detect megastructures and radio waves on certain frequencies. Given these metrics life on earth would have been entirely undetected until the last ~100 years despite life having existed here for billions of years. What if aquatic life is the norm in the universe, and we are outliers? Perhaps there are millions of super-intelligent whale-like species out there. Our current search methods would detect nothing.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoI’m afraid that whales are precisely as smart as they need to be to strain krill, navigate, and reproduce.
- Razengan 5y agoWhat about humans? What ultimately have we achieved beyond reproducing?
- RalfWausE 5y agoWe are f...ing good at killing ;-)
- Razengan 5y agoNo really, what have we done that will outlast us or matters to anyone but us? (on geological scales let alone cosmic)
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoConcrete.
- StanislavPetrov 5y agoHow smart could whales become if they had a billion more years to evolve without having their environment destroyed by humans or some other "smart" species?
- vardump 5y agoNot smarter at all, if there's no evolutionary pressure for it. On the contrary, bigger brains can be a hindrance, consuming energy for no reproductive benefit.