Quote Originally Posted by Divadish
I just think that we (homosapians) are ahead in the cosmic intelligence stakes.
I want to know why you think we're ahead, we have yet to have a conversation with a dog, They seems to know what we want them to do but we haven't a clue what they want us to do.

We have no idea how little we know, we have no external frame of reference and as such its only our ego's that puts us at the head of the class. All our great technology, all our grand structures for the time we built our first fires could be just the baby steps of a newborn.

In the vastness of this universe a life form could have been at where we are today a Billion years ago and today sees us as we see an ant. They would just ignore us as they consider if they should put us in a ant farm , ignore us or zap us with Decon because we are starting to annoy them..

Then again maybe we are in the ant farm we call earth and just trying to get out as we call it exploring the universe. And they are considering pulling out the magnifying glass on those that escape.