John Wilkins wrote:

Tim Tyler <seemysig@googlemail.com> wrote:

'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.  ...

"There's five million trillion trillion of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them, that's what I say"

Well, there's a few trillion that I'm intimately acquainted with. It's the other ones that I don't like.