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Old 07-24-2008, 08:24 PM   #23
piercehawkeye45
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I agree with Clobfobble. I really wonder if lifeforms could reach an intelligence level much higher than humans are now. It takes millions of years for this type of intelligence to evolve and frankly, I have my doubts on how much longer humans will last (I am talking about hundreds of thousands of years, not decades).

Also, if a species did reach a much higher intelligence level than us, I am pretty sure that their technology would be superior to ours in the way that a ICBM compares to a stone axe. A million year head start is a damn big one. Even if humans did master space travel in the next couple thousand years, we would have technology that would make our current weapons look like toys from the bronze age.

So my theory is that if intelligent life does exist, they either killed themselves off (or blew themselves back to the stone age) or are not much smarter than us but have technology far superior to us.

Or maybe I am just being *shutters* homocentric.
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