Originally Posted By: Ellis
rede-Your depressing second paragraph...
If the argument has any merit at all, the upside is that surviving civs will have proven to be the best adapted, not just in intelligence but psychologically and socially too. If we are to survive and grow-up to join those (thus far hypothetical) mature civs, then we have to perform a few miracles.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler