Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!rh@MIT-EECS
From: rh@MIT-EECS@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V3 #166
Message-ID: <3613@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 15:37:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3613
Posted: Fri Jul 29 15:37:00 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 09:40:25 EDT
Lines: 16

From:  Randy Haskins 

Re: whales and dolphins

Yes, we are (as far as we know) the only species on Earth to have
sent signals into outer space.  On the other hand, maybe the dolphins
can send other signals that we can't detect?  On the third hand,
since they are intelligent, maybe they know better than to send
signals into space?  Or maybe they told some local aliens to 
come sterilize the land masses on their planet?  As Doug Adams
said,
"Man thought he was the most intelligent being on Earth because
he had invented the wheel, New York City, and war.  It was precisely
for these reasons that the dolphins thought THEY were the most
intelligent beings on Earth."
-------