Originally Posted by E N D L E S S (Post 7212175)

If you look at the bigger picture, humans are still extremely primitive. On a scale of 1 to 10, if 1 was caveman and 10 was everything we could probably amount to....we're probably a 2 at this point in time.

Anyone who thinks we are the pinnacle of intelligent lifeforms is kidding themselves. Right now, we can barely get over the fact we all have different skin colours... or have the unity to not send out scam donation emails during world disasters...

And look at the time it takes for us to think a thought, to actually communicating it through text, or speech, or how we can barely control the simplest lifeforms, like bacteria, or even fruit flies lol. Our main weaponry, firearms, since being invented like 700 or 800 years ago, really hasn't changed that much yet; from medieval cannon, to lead ball musket to a magazine fed assault rifle; it still relies on the same basic principles. We have a long way to go.

Modern looking humans appeared about 200,000 years ago. This whole time, 200,000 years, we've been learning, building, inventing stuff, we've progressed to where we are today. So I wonder what we'll be like in another 200,000 years from now...maybe then we can call ourselves a supreme lifeform.

Originally Posted by corollagtSr5 (Post 7215165)

Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe (Post 7215212)

i think we're missing the point here. lets say, hypothetically, there is a more advanced species in existence somewhere in the universe as we speak. don't you think, at some point in time, they wondered if there were species that were greater than themselves? or do you think they automatically knew they were the most advanced in the universe? basically, what im trying to say is (ego aside), we could be that species in its early stages. but most people, like yourself, automatically rule it out based on variables like the universe's size and age.

like you say, in 200k years, we could be advanced enough to travel to different planets, and be the ones to discover "primitive" life forms with their own civilizations, wars, politics, etc.

Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe (Post 7215212)

i think we're missing the point here. lets say, hypothetically, there is a more advanced species in existence somewhere in the universe as we speak. don't you think, at some point in time, they wondered if there were species that were greater than themselves? or do you think they automatically knew they were the most advanced in the universe? basically, what im trying to say is (ego aside), we could be that species in its early stages. but most people, like yourself, automatically rule it out based on variables like the universe's size and age.

like you say, in 200k years, we could be advanced enough to travel to different planets, and be the ones to discover "primitive" life forms with their own civilizations, wars, politics, etc.

Originally Posted by iwantaskyline (Post 7215578)

If you were that advanced to travel from galaxy to galaxy, why would you be concerned with primitive species?

An advanced species flying past earth is like a human being walking past an ant hill. Would the human try to communicate with the ants? No. Same with them, we're too inferior to waste their time.

Originally Posted by iwantaskyline (Post 7215578)

If you were that advanced to travel from galaxy to galaxy, why would you be concerned with primitive species?

An advanced species flying past earth is like a human being walking past an ant hill. Would the human try to communicate with the ants? No. Same with them, we're too inferior to waste their time.

Originally Posted by Vinny G (Post 7215600)

How does that make any sense?

1. Do you know how much work scientists have put in just to study how animals on EARTH communicate with one another?

2. So you're saying that if we were ever able to travel long distances in space with ease, and we spotted another civilization that were able to build buildings, take over almost every resource on the planet, develop nuclear weapons, etc., you would not bother to communicate with it because they're too primitive?

Originally Posted by iwantaskyline (Post 7215631)

It doesn't make sense because you don't understand the analogy. A normal human being walking by an ant hill would not care about those ants, most likely walking right by the ant hill with no care at all.

An alien race that is advanced enough to travel from galaxy to galaxy would be so advanced they wouldn't care about a primitive species like ours. If they are able to travel to our solar system from another galaxy they have most likely explored their entire galaxy already and humans would be nothing unique or new to them.

It's speculation of course with no facts to base on. I didn't think of this myself, I heard it from one of Dr. Kaku's interviews. He's quite a famous scientist, a lot of his videos are on youtube discussing civilizations and aliens. Look him up if you're interested.

Originally Posted by moomooCow (Post 7215663)

A "normal human being" as in a person like you and I, walking to work / school, would not care at all about ants. But a human being that is out in unchartered areas of the world would definitely be interested in the distinct lifeforms found there.

Translated to intergalactic travel: a "normal alien being" whizzing by in his spacecraft, won't stop to look at us because it already knows what we are and their scientists have already studied us.

Your analogy only make sense if we and our Earth have already been studied and are identical to another planet somewhere else.