Could there have been intelligent life on earth?

TeddyTedson · 19-03-2014 12:27AM #1

Hello After Hours, I hope you all had an enjoyable St. Patricks day

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Anyway, I've been thinking/wondering/pondering if there is any chance there could have been life on earth more intelligent than the human race before ourselves? Is there any scientific theories that there may have been?
I'm no scientist but is there even a remote chance that there may have been more intelligent lifeforms living on earth in the distant past? Perhaps there was and all evidence has decayed or remained hidden from us?
There's a few knowledgeable folk on here so maybe they can share any possibilities on the subject, despite how farfetched.

Now to get some AH humor out of the way.

Could there have been intelligent life on earth?

...eh

Anyway, I've been thinking

This is where I stopped reading

I'll let the monsters take over from here

GenieOz · 19-03-2014 12:31AM

Impossible. If there was they'd have figured out a way to survive past us.
The only reasons humans are still alive is because of our intelligence, if it came down to raw power and survival skills we'd be screwed, we need nurturing for for the first 4 or 5 years if our life before we can even attempt to feed or do anything for ourselves.

kumate_champ07 · 19-03-2014 12:31AM

our technology today is not a result of improved intelligence, its a result of advances over 1000's of years, previous civilizations have built the foundations of today's technology

time + writing + reading = smarter

Hunchback · 19-03-2014 12:33AM

GenieOz wrote: »

Impossible. If there was they'd have figured out a way to survive past us.
The only reasons humans are still alive is because of our intelligence, if it came down to raw power and survival skills we'd be screwed, we need nurturing for for the first 4 or 5 years if our life before we can even attempt to feed or do anything for ourselves.

but, but, comets and jellystone park?

Hello_MrFox · 19-03-2014 12:34AM

GenieOz wrote: »

Impossible. If there was they'd have figured out a way to survive past us.
The only reasons humans are still alive is because of our intelligence, if it came down to raw power and survival skills we'd be screwed, we need nurturing for for the first 4 or 5 years if our life before we can even attempt to feed or do anything for ourselves.

Unless they were wiped out by something they couldn't figure out how to stop.

EoghanIRL · 19-03-2014 12:34AM

Their is.

soap1978 · 19-03-2014 12:36AM

gate of the gods in peru

GerB40 · 19-03-2014 12:36AM

No..

endacl · 19-03-2014 12:37AM

In evolutionary terms, we haven't been here all that long. In a million years some other species may well be asking themselves the same question...

Cookie_Monster · 19-03-2014 12:42AM

no, there would have been all sorts of evidence left in both the fossil record and of all their junk buried around the place that we would have found.

Karl Stein · 19-03-2014 12:43AM

These creatures you call mice you see are not quite as they appear, they are merely the protrusions into our dimension of vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings. The business with the cheese and squeaking is just a front.

Akrasia · 19-03-2014 12:46AM

The velociraptors could open doors

Couldn't build them though cause they didn't have opposable thumbs.

Dionysius2 · 19-03-2014 12:48AM

The earth has existed for billions of years before the arrival of man. Nobody has ever tried to explain to us what was going on during that time.
If there was anything that involved intelligence going on then there must be traces somewhere......true/false ?
Given that man's time on earth would apparently be less than 5% of the time earth has existed then that leaves an awful lot of time for the dinosaurs....eh ?
Any enlightenment....anyone ?

sheesh · 19-03-2014 12:48AM

easily

the dinosaurs were around for 100s of millions of years surely some of them could have come up with an intelligent species.

and even before that there was an even bigger extinction event

Holsten · 19-03-2014 12:50AM

Higher up than ourselves? No, not a chance.

There would be evidence of this if it had happened.

So on Earth right now 2014 is the most advanced we've ever been.

On another planet? Who knows, I would say there is a real possibility.

entropi · 19-03-2014 12:51AM

Well, considering the Babylonians, Mayan and Inca civilisations died out and they were deemed advanced...its inevitable that current humans will probably go the same way. The biggest and current challenge being touted is resource management, since there are far too many people on Earth already.

Maybe we'll be looked upon in a future time for some innovative ideas and the society we have.

Artful_Badger · 19-03-2014 12:55AM

No. If there was the place would be littered with strange looking beer cans.

GenieOz · 19-03-2014 12:55AM

Dionysius2 wrote: »

The earth has existed for billions of years before the arrival of man. Nobody has ever tried to explain to us what was going on during that time.
If there was anything that involved intelligence going on then there must be traces somewhere......true/false ?
Given that man's time on earth would apparently be less than 5% of the time earth has existed then that leaves an awful lot of time for the dinosaurs....eh ?
Any enlightenment....anyone ?

Ah stop, earth is only 2014 years old. We literally have a calendar telling us this!

Sauve · 19-03-2014 01:02AM

I'd give anything for a half hour to root around in your brain Teddy, and see what in the name of Jaysus you do be thinking about.

buyer95 · 19-03-2014 01:03AM

Has to be the stupidist thread ever for its sheer hilariousness.

Zamboni · 19-03-2014 01:04AM

There was never intelligent life on earth. There still isn't either to be fair...

shopaholic01 · 19-03-2014 01:09AM

Sauve wrote: »

I'd give anything for a half hour to root around in your brain Teddy, and see what in the name of Jaysus you do be thinking about.

I think I'd need a couple of hours.

Ficheall · 19-03-2014 01:19AM

GenieOz wrote: »

Impossible. If there was they'd have figured out a way to survive past us.

Maybe surviving is not the intelligent thing to do?

BrokenArrows · 19-03-2014 01:21AM

No.
If we are finding dinosaur fossils we definitely would have found the remains of ancient cities.

The Backwards Man · 19-03-2014 01:33AM

I is smart and can read good

jobeenfitz · 19-03-2014 01:39AM

Maybe, sort of. Maybe the earth has been here before. It had a very intelligent species who all got destroyed with that earth. Then the creator/s or whatever, decided to replace it and we are working our way to that level of intelligence again.

This may be inaccurate?

greedygoblin · 19-03-2014 01:39AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I is smart and can read good

But you read right to left Backwards Man, right?

zenno · 19-03-2014 01:47AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Hello After Hours, I hope you all had an enjoyable St. Patricks day .
Anyway, I've been thinking/wondering/pondering if there is any chance there could have been life on earth more intelligent than the human race before ourselves? Is there any scientific theories that there may have been?
I'm no scientist but is there even a remote chance that there may have been more intelligent lifeforms living on earth in the distant past? Perhaps there was and all evidence has decayed or remained hidden from us?
There's a few knowledgeable folk on here so maybe they can share any possibilities on the subject, despite how farfetched.

Now to get some AH humor out of the way.

...eh

This is where I stopped reading

I'll let the monsters take over from here

I believe there was a time in the far past when humans reached a far more technological state than we are now but they moved on to some other habitable planet out there. They are our old and renowned so called Gods people speak of in old literature. They are the one's that can disable nuclear warheads, they can extract your conciousness from your body as what some people call a soul.

They are the ones that moved on when civilisation was almost completely destroyed back yonder.

GenieOz · 19-03-2014 01:54AM

Ficheall wrote: »

Maybe surviving is not the intelligent thing to do?

In that case fruit flies are the most intelligent of us all.

Ficheall · 19-03-2014 01:55AM

GenieOz wrote: »

In that case fruit flies are the most intelligent of us all.

Well, I meant surviving as a species. The fruit flies still have to go through the whole pointless "living" thing for a while.

jobeenfitz · 19-03-2014 01:55AM

GenieOz wrote: »

In that case fruit flies are the most intelligent of us all.

or maybe them little sperm that don't wanna swim toward the egg?

Could there have been intelligent life on earth?

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