Quote Originally Posted by anon View Post
We could have been knocked out before evolving intelligence (and it can still happen). What would the estimates look like if we didn't have us and our planet to rely on as an example that definitely has intelligence?
Don't be discouraged, anon. We are too close now to give up. Our computers can and will evolve into the alien machine children of the future, who, acting in unison with other such beings similarly developed by other civilizations gigadistances away, invented time and maybe even three dimensions as well so that we could be here in the present working on the problem.