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#1 Re: Intelligent Alien Life » what do you think aliens would look like? - like what color, how tall.....etc. » 2006-06-20 08:27:33

Dinosaurs were on this Earth for over 100 million years, yet they did not evolve intelligence. I think, had they not become extinct, there were be intelligent dinosaurs on the Earth today (And no humans).

I disagree. For the length of time dinosaurs lived on Earth, they must have evolved some kind of intelligence. Otherwise how did they survive? how did they mate? how did they learn to walk, learn to cry out etc. Intelligence comes in the smallest details. If the theory that a meteorite hit the Earth and wiped out all the dinosaurs is true, then can we really say 'oh it's because they had no intelligence'. No, we cannot. If a meteorite headed towards Earth right this minute then what would we do? run? where to? Future life on Earth might think we had no intelligence either.

Without intelligence they wouldn't have lasted on Earth for that long.

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