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Vaedur
reply to post by PhoenixOD
Surely if they cross the galaxy they can work out the "water" issue. Critically think man!
ATSZOMBIE
I mean they are shown to be highly intelligent and we have yet to decipher their language, could it be they share an intelligence with E.T's we dont even know about yet?
www.dolphinfacts.org...
Extensive research, carried out on dolphins has indicated that bottlenose dolphins have the ability of self awareness, a trait considered being a sign of highly developed abstract thinking. This ability was discovered in dolphins when they were able to recognize themselves in front of a mirror. This behavior has been seen only in human beings and great apes. Dolphins also showed a lot of interest in television, unlike other animals, when they were exposed to images in the television.edit on 2/18/2014 by Mirthful Me because: EX Tags Added...
Drake hosted a "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" meeting on detecting their radio signals. The meeting was held at the Green Bank facility in 1961. The equation that bears Drake's name arose out of his preparations for the meeting.
As I planned the meeting, I realized a few day[s] ahead of time we needed an agenda. And so I wrote down all the things you needed to know to predict how hard it's going to be to detect extraterrestrial life. And looking at them it became pretty evident that if you multiplied all these together, you got a number, N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms. —Frank Drake.
The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio-astronomer Otto Struve. These participants dubbed themselves "The Order of the Dolphin" (because of Lilly's work on dolphin communication), and commemorated their first meeting with a plaque at the observatory hall.
Oannes
Actually, Native Americans say that whales and dolphins are not from Earth. I believe there energy pattern (etheric body) is Sirian. The Nommo are also an aquatic species from Sirius.
JadeStar
Oannes
Actually, Native Americans say that whales and dolphins are not from Earth. I believe there energy pattern (etheric body) is Sirian. The Nommo are also an aquatic species from Sirius.
Sirius is a Class A (giant) star with a white dwarf (dead star) companion.
It has never been a habitable system. Nor has it likely been around long enough (only around 2.4 billion years old) for complex life to evolve.
These are astrobiological facts.
Sirius however does feature in many people's mythologies due to it being the brightest star in the sky.
The bright stars typically are given as sources for "aliens" (Sirius, the Pleiades, Polaris, Arcturus etc) but the funny thing is they are all too young or have other severe problems from an astrobiological perspective.
edit on 18-2-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
Specimen
reply to post by Unity_99
Meh, if dolphins are able to intimidate sharks, then they must have anger issues. The only whale I think that decimate those two is the Orca and those are pretty smart as well.
Dolphins are popular to people due to them being able to interact with them, as well as being able to scare sharks. But them killing their own young kind of says something to me, and they might need a couple of more million years to evolve into an advanced society.
Considering since their nature is that of a jerk, and quite possibly could be more destructive then humanity once they grow thumbs.
But them killing their own young kind of says something to me, and they might need a couple of more million years to evolve into an advanced society.
Stealthbomber
reply to post by ATSZOMBIE
Wow just when I thought I've seen it all, then you come along with alien dolphins
lol
Intelligence itself is a very loaded issue. It's difficult to compare one individual's brilliance with that of another within the same species, much less to attempt to compare intelligence among multiple species. Intelligence is just one component of a species' survival, so one can argue that spiders have evolved to be as smart as they need to be for their species to continue, rats are as brainy as they need to be, and so on.
If human standards for intelligence are applied to non-human animals, however, dolphins come very close to our own brain aptitude levels, suggests Emory University dolphin expert Lori Marino.
She's performed MRI scans of dolphin brains. The scans prove dolphin brains are:
•big, relative to body size
•intricate, with a neocortex "more highly convoluted than our own"
•structured to allow for self-awareness and the processing of what Marino calls "complex emotions"
All animals share the capacity for emotions, she explained, but the part of the dolphin brain associated with processing emotional information is particularly expanded.
mithrawept
Wasn't there a Star Trek film along these lines?
If Dolphins where aliens, they wouldn't let us slaughter them, they would send their giant robophins with laser beams to destroy us.
if aliens are dolphins then i'm super happy about that. it mean we can defeat them anywhere we find them in the Universe and take they're stuff!
Dolphins show traits of a Serial killer Clown