I can do that one on my kitchen stove, and if I do it right, the results are delicious.
Stranger
I misread this as “And they would have penises!”
Laughter ensued.
They wouldn’t have to make a list to go shopping,
They wouldn’t leave beard shavings in the sink either.
I watched a sci-fi series, I think it may have been Star Trek I can’t remember.
Anyway, in the show it had a species of people who could remember everything their parents had learned and experienced along with everything there previous family member had learn and experienced.
Biologicaly speaking, this doesn’t sound too far fetched to my novice ears. A species like that would have intelligence beyond comprehension.
They could multi task,write a novel with their right hand,draw a blueprint of an engine with their left while watching their favourite comedy and holding an unrelated conversation with a friend.
Divide by zero!
Doesn’t seem that far-fetched or naïve to me. It might not be a necessary condition for getting out into space or being “far superior” as per the OP, but it couldn’t hurt, and I don’t see why you’d expect that they probably *would *act that way.
Also, the rolleyes is a bit much for this forum, I think.
I’m guessing superior communication skills. They would be able to convey information to each other accurately and efficiently. One being would say something and the other being would understand exactly what the first meant to say.
Also maybe a superior skill at determining relevancy. They could look at an issue and readily know which factors were important to considering it and which factors were irrelevant. They could compare two situations and know which similarities and differences between them were important and which were not. They could scale something up or down to different levels or create a model of a situation and know which factors still needed to be considered and which ones could be ignored.
Having faster than light travel would be a good example of superior intelligence.
They would be smart enough to know to stay the frack away from us.
I don’t think that memory = intelligence, although it might be a factor.
I would posit that a more intelligent species would be able to think faster, process more detail, and handle more complex calculations without need of artificial assistance (pencils, computers…). They would be more likely to act based on actual probable outcomes and perform meaningful cost/benefit analysis on problems in realtime. They would probably be able to grasp complicated concepts faster, learn faster, and access information stored in their memories faster and more reliably.
If we met this “more intelligent species,” it would mean that:
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[li]They’d probably learn our language(s) faster than we’d learn theirs.[/li][li]They’d be able to communicate in ways we couldn’t follow.[/li][li]They’d understand our technology faster and better than we’d understand theirs.[/li][li]If we went to war, they’d figure out our tools, strategies, and tactics quickly and we’d get our butts kicked.[/li][li]In research, they’d be able to eliminate the dead-ends faster, thus leading to far more efficient research.[/li][li]They’d most likely be able to multitask better, as was pointed out upthread. This would mean creating vehicles we couldn’t use, because they could do completely different things with all four limbs while interpreting multiple displays and instruments–possible even using voice or eye-movement controls at the same time.[/li][li]I really don’t know if intelligence would correlate with development of “mental powers” like telepathy or telekinesis, since it hasn’t even been demonstrated that they’re possible at this point.[/li][/ul]
Most of this boils down to them doing stuff better or faster, not to them doing stuff we just flat-out couldn’t do.
I literally cannot figure out what point you’re trying to make here.
Thanks for sharing . . . :rolleyes: