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It’s crazy that they lasted > 150M years and never developed intelligence. Meanwhile we’ve been here just 10 million years or so and we’re starting to make it t

It’s crazy that they lasted > 150M years and never developed intelligence. Meanwhile we’ve been here just 10 million years or so and we’re starting to make it to other planets.

nojokes 5y ago
Perhaps they did but they did not have means to express themselves and modify the environment?
- booleandilemma 5y ago
  I started thinking about that after I posted. What a shame that would be!
- nullc 5y ago
  https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/ https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/
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asdff 5y ago
Intelligence is usually a huge waste of resources so it's not typically selected for past a certain level. I would still consider my cat highly intelligent with her strategy making during play, and her understanding of human emotions. In the case of our ancestors, there was a time when traditional resource gathering techniques were not as successful as those that took strategy, coordination with others, understanding migrations of other animals and seasonal progressions of edible plants, and potentially even tool use. Those that were intelligent enough to adopt these techniques managed to feed themselves and reproduce, while those lineages that weren't struggled, and eventually died out entirely. The end of the Neanderthal was sort of like this. They failed to improve their hunting strategies, their population shrank especially in competition with early humans, and eventually they died out.
cpeterso 5y ago
Or dinosaurs developed technology, detected the killer meteor, and relocated to Venus.
edgyquant 5y ago
Mammals have been around for more than a hundred million years, maybe as old as the first dinosaurs themselves. 10 million years is about the time humans and gorillas diverged from a common ancestor. We’ve been evolving just as long as every other animal and it was environmental pressures (and luck) that lead to us being what we are.

It’s crazy that they lasted > 150M years and never developed intelligence. Meanwhile we’ve been here just 10 million years or so and we’re starting to make it to other planets.

nojokes 5y ago

Perhaps they did but they did not have means to express themselves and modify the environment?

booleandilemma 5y ago
I started thinking about that after I posted. What a shame that would be!
nullc 5y ago
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/ https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/

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asdff 5y ago

Intelligence is usually a huge waste of resources so it's not typically selected for past a certain level. I would still consider my cat highly intelligent with her strategy making during play, and her understanding of human emotions. In the case of our ancestors, there was a time when traditional resource gathering techniques were not as successful as those that took strategy, coordination with others, understanding migrations of other animals and seasonal progressions of edible plants, and potentially even tool use. Those that were intelligent enough to adopt these techniques managed to feed themselves and reproduce, while those lineages that weren't struggled, and eventually died out entirely. The end of the Neanderthal was sort of like this. They failed to improve their hunting strategies, their population shrank especially in competition with early humans, and eventually they died out.

cpeterso 5y ago

Or dinosaurs developed technology, detected the killer meteor, and relocated to Venus.

edgyquant 5y ago

Mammals have been around for more than a hundred million years, maybe as old as the first dinosaurs themselves. 10 million years is about the time humans and gorillas diverged from a common ancestor. We’ve been evolving just as long as every other animal and it was environmental pressures (and luck) that lead to us being what we are.