'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank wrote:

On Aug 15, 2:44 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@googlemail.com> wrote:

'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?

How many bacteria are there on earth . . . . . . . . . .. ?

About five million trillion trillion, I gather.  But what
has that got to do with anything?  Humans are large organisms
with big brains - comparing their numbers to those of bacteria
seems pointless - unless you are claiming that any large
animal on the planet is a failure by *definition*.