Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney From: courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP (Courtney Loomis) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Myths of the Space Age - (nf) Message-ID: <1386@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 03:33:12 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1386 Posted: Fri Jul 22 03:33:12 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 05:35:11 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 25 #R:sri-arpa:-306000:hp-pcd:8400010:000:1097 hp-pcd!courtney Jul 21 14:03:00 1983 Of course there are other intelligent forms of life than Homo Sapien... ...right here on Earth!!! Have you ever considered Cetaceans or other Primates in your search for intelligent life? Just because dolphins and baboons don't build a bunch of STUFF to carry around with them so as to expand their ability to CHANGE their environment, does that mean that they aren't engaged in other forms of expression which might be as high or even higher than our own? Not only do dolphins spend only 3% of their time feeding (the rest PLAYING), there is strong evidence that they have complex social structures (they may know what LOVE is). They also communicate in a language that is theoretically capable of transfering information at a much greater rate than humans! Keep in mind that dolphins are on a different twig of the same evolutionary branch as humans... they "chose" to return to the sea to continue their development, which may be a profoundly good choice as it may be the only part of the Earth that continues to support life within the next couple of centuries (years?).