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Yet none show any ambition to develop high tech that anyone could spot from space Above the sea level, anyone who had it is either a part of “our” genome or ex
by wruza 5y ago
Yet none show any ambition to develop high tech that anyone could spot from space
Above the sea level, anyone who had it is either a part of “our” genome or extinct. Below it is a completely separate biome which may not yet had an event starting this type of evolution. It’s unclear if in a million years (in the absence of humans) squids would stay the same or evolve into walking and then moon-landing.
I think that only one species can do that, because the most energetic natural environment (free oxygen in our case), which is required for it, is usually only one per planet, and you have to fight over it, with hands, wood, metals, fire, ATGMs.
- guerrilla 5y ago> Above the sea level, anyone who had it is either a part of “our” genome or extinct. That's too vague to argue with but I'll do it anyway: No, elephants and crows as just two examples.
- wruza 5y agoI mean one can spot an elephant from space, but a crow? :) I was talking in a high-tech context, of course there are pretty intelligent species besides us, but they don’t build lit up megastructures.
- guerrilla 5y agoThe comment you were responding to already has that as an assumption and is saying that they don't do those things not because they can't but because they don't have ambition to do them, so the fact that they don't isn't a measure of intelligence.
- rusticpenn 5y agoAnts and termites build megastructures..