Overrated Intelligence Of Aliens?

[Seadragon]

I'm not asking if aliens exist, I'm assuming the existence of aliens, the aliens of countless appearances worldwide and throughout time - the 2 legs, arms humanlike features etc. What I wanted to know is why do people assume that aliens are intelligent? There is this belief that they are superior to humans. Is it because of their flying technology and that they can transcend space at such speed. I mean how do we know that the material of their UFO's is not readily available on their planet? Or biologically they can adapt to different atmospheric conditions readily? That doesn't necessarily imply that the UFO inhabitants are anymore intelligent than us? If we had say metallic material that could float, we would no doubt have the whole of the Universe mapped out by now?

I was wondering this because assuming there was/is an alien in Roswell and how about the much hushed up incident on Shikoku Island in 2008 (suggestion of an alien carted off) how come none of their 'kind' have been to retrieve them? And how many, many reports are we going to hear of medical examinations - I mean how many examinations are they going to continually carry out from God knows how long these stories have been around? With intelligence comes curiosity but one has to really ask - are aliens really as intelligent as we give them credit for? Aren't we, humans the most intelligent beings in the Universe?

[Seadragon]

There's a theory that the cave paintings were the result of hallocingenic plants, diet of the Cavemen who would then disappear into the cave in a meditative trance and draw these paintings?

[Seadragon]

I am truly and immeasurably sorry to inform all on this thread that I have received correspondence from the Almighty Ed informing the Answerbank Federation that our services rendered in the name of the magnanimous cause mentioned earlier are no longer required and that we have all been fired.

I was informed that the Almighty Ed has engaged new crew for the task a Mr Spock, Captain Kirk, Scotty, Dr McCoy, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and others. (Sound like a bunch of failures to me and I have no doubt that they will not be able to go where no Man has gone before!) So on this unfortunate note I should inform you that the meeting in 2015 is cancelled. Any complaints to:

The Almighty ED
PO Box 4835
Answerbank Federation
Planet Earth

Thank you and Goodnight.

[chakka35]

I’d like to shove three oars in, please:

1.Any creature depicted as humanoid in that it has a trunk, two nether limbs and two upper, a neck, head, two eyes and ears and a nose is not an alien from another planet.
This should be obvious. The human form is the result of 3,500,000,000 years of countless random mutations, each one dying, surviving or flourishing according to the environment in which it was born (natural selection). It is quite out of the question that any similar path could have accidentally been followed elsewhere.

2.That aliens would be more advanced than us is a serious probability. If you depict the age of the universe as a line 2½ miles long, then each foot represents a million years. On Earth early man separated from the chimpanzee a mere six feet from the end of that 2½ miles and modern man appeared about 1 inch from the end. Technology started about 1/5000th of an inch from the end and we went into space about 1/20,000th of an inch ago. There is no reason why alien technology should have appeared so late in the day. Even a mere one foot ahead of us – a million years – would be mind-boggling.

3. A UFO is just that, an object that the observer cannot identify. If someone else comes along and recognises it as an aircraft, a weather balloon or the planet Venus, then it becomes what you might call an IFO. If there is no such second person, and the first person has no first-class photographs that can be analysed, then it remains a UFO.
How and why the leap is made from UFO to alien spaceship is beyond me.

[jno]

chakka, it may be unlikely but it is not out of the question.

[chakka35]

Really, jno? Not out of the question that the countless millions of accidental, random mutations that have produced the human shape over thousands of millions of years have been exactly reproduced on another planet? The odds against that are incalculable.

AND each of those mutations that survived will have done so because the environment on that planet was the same as that on the earth at that particular stage of evolution. Sorry, but that is quite sufficiently out of the question for me.

What it means is that those people who swallowed, for example, the comical dummy which was the subject of the Roswell 'autopsy' should have been even more astounded at its shape than at its provenance. Yet I never heard it mentioned once - probably because those intelligent enough to have thought about it were too intelligent to take the 'alien' seriously anyway. Cheers.