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by Anonymous on December 2nd, 2009
If some bizarre global event boosted all livestock's intelligence to human or near-human intelligence, would you stop eating them?
by NotSuspiciousAtAll on November 24th, 2011
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do you consider yourself well balanced when it comes to your I.Q (Logical) and your E.Q, (Emotional)?
by surfbiker on November 7th, 2011
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In a dumbed-down society is a smart guy king?
by -O-uknow on March 2nd, 2012
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How can you tell if someone's a genius?
by Αντίο. on January 12th, 2012
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do you think your smart? why?
by luxius on December 16th, 2011
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...as suggested by physicist Carl Sagan who wrote 'Contact'. +pts
by xprofessor on December 2nd, 2009
Yes.
by anonymous on December 2nd, 2009
Very good...
but what the hell are you talkin bout? +6
by Sir yhvhash on December 2nd, 2009
In the book (later movie w/ Jodie Foster) the SETI researchers are listening to an extraterrestrial radio signal. It transmits packets of pulses grouped consecutively as 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. We understand primes as a concept in the mathematics of integers. No known natural process can generate these numbers. It signals intelligence comparable to our own.
by xprofessor on December 2nd, 2009
Is that a real test? Doesn't that presuppose that mathematics, or at least some similar logical construct is the mark of intelligence. If so, then that would exclude our own ancestors who were no less intelligent, but had yet to formulate math.
by Sir yhvhash on December 3rd, 2009
One might suppose you need to understand math before you can build powerful interstellar radio transmitters.
by xprofessor on December 3rd, 2009
so we must be looking for similar technology
by Sir yhvhash on December 3rd, 2009
The assumption is that radio is how other intelligent civilizations -- if they exist -- would choose to communicate given the vastness of space and the cosmic 'speed limit' of light speed. That's the premise for SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence).
by xprofessor on December 3rd, 2009