Sorry for posting in a semi-old thread, but I think it'd quite an important discussion. I've looked at the pictures in the original post. After that, I couldn't pull myself to watch the video. But I believe that Humans have gone too far as a species. We're different to every other animal. The main reason for this is that we have begun to adapt everything else instead of adapting ourselves. No other animal harms another animal, just to see how it would react. And whatever happened to survival of the fittest? If we had no technology any more, we'd become extinct faster than any other race possibly could. We're weak, pathetic creatures, and we can be killed by the slightest of changes to our bodies.
And about the intelligence of humans vs animals, it reminds me of something Douglas Adams wrote. It goes along the lines of;
'Humans think they're more clever than dolphins because they discovered gravity, achieved space travel, and invented nuclear missiles. The dolphins think they're more intelligent for the exact same reasons.'
IE, what have humans ever done to make the Earth a better place. They've totally unbalanced it. Nuclear Missile - good, a way of commiting genocide in two minutes flat. Don't sound too good to me, to be honest. If nuclear war breaks out, I'm going to get murderous on humans as a race.
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