tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post2427759188806391598..comments2023-09-28T10:37:10.743-04:00Comments on Depth Deception the Blog: Evolution of the Intelligence Sweet SpotJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06641691395288365219noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-83339704466735202342008-05-28T12:53:00.000-04:002008-05-28T12:53:00.000-04:00I forgot to mention, when I was younger I used to ...I forgot to mention, when I was younger I used to scoff at the humanesque aliens in Star Trek and Star Wars, but as I got older (mid-teens) I began to scoff at the greater crime of how <I>so many aliens</I> were depicted as being capable of producing viable offspring with humans, even offspring that can successfully produce offspring of their own, despite the fact that <I>H. sapiens</I> can't accomplish the same feat with its most closely-related cousins.<BR/><BR/>Long story short, if a horny beastialist in Africa can't make half-human half-ape babies with the lowland gorillas, I don't see how characters like Worf and Spock can make any sense whatsoever.SuiginChouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00028127203782088732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-28414489593786268172008-05-28T11:27:00.000-04:002008-05-28T11:27:00.000-04:00I'm a scoffing machine.I'm a scoffing machine.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641691395288365219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-48643854079724764052008-05-28T10:50:00.000-04:002008-05-28T10:50:00.000-04:00Do you scoff often?Do you scoff often?fullejuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616342754652815295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-75099434103193139072008-05-28T08:12:00.000-04:002008-05-28T08:12:00.000-04:00I bet lots of boys have wondered whether intellige...I bet lots of boys have wondered whether intelligent life would have grown out of the dinosaurs -- or indeed <I>if it may have even been present already</I>. I have often wondered about the archaeological footprints we leave behind, and how people in modern times try to decipher how people in ancient times lived based on the evidence. For example, tales of an Atlantian high society are fascinating and not without <I>some</I> archaeologic backing, e.g. the late 20th century discovery in ruins outside of Baghdad that one Mesopotamian city's houses all contained gold plates in the walls that, when a current was passed to them, caused a phosphoretic glow inside the room. (This, despite the understanding that electricity was not discovered, let alone harnessed, until the 19th century!)<BR/><BR/>I often wonder if our perception of the dinosaurs as fierce crocodilian beasts is wrong and if, perhaps, they had those bodies but their minds were far more intelligent. True, the hard cold fossil evidence suggests that best the dinosaurs would have had to have been barbarians (else evolutionary forces would not have been in place to maintain the sharp teeth, claws, armor plating, horns, etc), but that's not to say that they might not have been as intelligent as gorillas and chimpanzees ... and who knows? <I>Perhaps smarter still.</I>SuiginChouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00028127203782088732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-18004778254678497532008-05-28T07:55:00.000-04:002008-05-28T07:55:00.000-04:00LOL awesome.LOL awesome.Will D. Mckayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302833044560509634noreply@blogger.com