'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank wrote:

I quite disagree witht his part.  Indeed, I think "intelligence",
particularly in the form of the "technological intelligence" required
for SETI, is an abject evolutionary failure.  In our short tenure as a
species, and even in our microscopic-timed tenure as a technological
species, we've managed to produce the largest mass extinction since
the Cretaceous, and have put not only our own survival as a species at
risk, but the very existence of nearly the entire biosphere within
which we live.

Right.  Six billion humans and going strong and we are a *failure*?!?

What on earth does it take to be a success?