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(17,528 posts)Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)sometimes I have my doubts about whether Earth is, though.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)requires time to pass. Not enough time has passed for humankind on Earth to rank.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I'll be impressed. But not a moment sooner.
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)having expended too much evolutionary energy on growing an enormous cerebral cortex without developing controls over the limbic system (the 'lizard brain') - replete with territoriality, ritual behavior, aggression and other 'reptile' behaviors.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Overspecialization has led to the demise of many a species. I think we are next.
PATRICK
(12,228 posts)so we cannot survive on it. Nor any other life forms. We raised the evolutionary ante too fast with too little of the intelligence that brought us there. Now we have a unique crunch point made by our hands and driven by the absolute worst scum the human race could ever produce.
Progress by intelligence, death by morons. Homo sapiens, just an oxymoron.
Yet, intelligence or no, it would seem this development was the best hope by life on the planet to fashion protections, thriving and growth against all perils. We still could do our mere duty.
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)kentuck
(111,094 posts)Beam me the fuck up!
I can't do anything with these Earthlings.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)as Mr. idle put it.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth