(March 14, 2010 at 8:11 pm)AngelThMan Wrote:You've gained mastery of mystification that much I'll grant you. What is the real subject at hand? Kindly explain what do you mean by that exactly.Welsh cake Wrote:Our "dominance" as you put it is merely your perspective or subjective world-view on our current status, technically we're not the dominant species on this planet and never really have been.This is a perfect example of avoiding the real subject at hand and going into little tangent arguments.
While creating our own artificial environment instead of gradually adapting is certainly an ability we possess that established our success, this only makes us one-of-the-most successful species currently around. We can't make our own food the way plants do, Bees pollinate flowering plants that we get a deal of our produce from, anything happens to those little guys and we're all screwed basically. Afterall we're not the most successful life-forms in terms of sheer numbers, Viruses, Bacteria and countless pathogens have us beat there I'm afraid.
AngelThMan Wrote:I didn't include all living cells and organisms when I said humans are the only species with sapient intelligence.It would be pretty amazing if you did considering my quoted post was a response to fr0d0 back then, and not you.
AngelThMan Wrote:Cells and organisms are not species.Depends on your biological classification as there are many working definitions in place.
AngelThMan Wrote:Why are humans the only species, out of millions of species, who developed sapient intelligence?Answer my leading question first: "Why do plants have no nervous system?"
AngelThMan Wrote:Not the brightest thing you've ever said. I suppose you'll argue next the whole Shoemaker-Levy Comet event crashing onto Jupiter was the fabrication of dastardly sinful scientists covering over the truth that there is a magic man-bum in the sky.Welsh cake Wrote:And for all our 'dominance' it only takes one extinction-event like the asteroid/comet that wiped out the dinosaurs to remove every trace of our brief existence from this tiny celestial body.This hasn't happened to us yet, so for now all it is is a science fantasy movie idea.
Ever heard of the Herschel Crater on Saturn's moon Mimas?
Multi-ringed impact basin Valhalla on Jupiter's moon Callisto?
Oh wait those aren't impact craters on Earth are they? Silly me, those are the product of Hollywood...okay try these ones instead:
Barringer Crater, aka Meteor Crater (Arizona, USA)
Chesapeake Bay impact crater (Virginia, USA)
Chicxulub, Extinction Event Crater (Mexico)
Clearwater Lakes (Quebec, Canada)
Gosses Bluff crater (Northern Territory, Australia)
And the list goes on...