I want this lacquered and turned into my coffee table.

"Holy shit I need this on my wall NOW"

We need a book, "The Meritocratic Ideal, And How It Benefits Sociopaths And Screws Over The Rest Of Us." Not just in the food industry; also science, manufacturing, financial services...

The obvious solution, then, is to increase the minimum wage to $100/hr. Problem solved.

Citizen11, as Ilos suggests, I think it's just ego, 'we' want to believe we're god-like, so we're made in gods image. Plenty of people have no smarts, plenty of animals do, but this appears to vary as much on an individual basis as anything else. I suspect that most of us (humans) have the potential, but in some it…

Sounds like they were just fucked out of existence. As homo sapiens kept breading within Neanderthal populations, the weaker of the groups would eventually die out as their mating possibilities reduced.

Without a trace of a doubt, dolphins know that humans are the assholes of the Earth. Who'll be willing to debate this point once we learn their language?

So... they are like humans?

Wait... doesn't that mean that the whole SPECIES speaks the same language? I find that VERY interesting/incredible (in the sense that I am skeptical, not amazed). I know the pods are very fluid, but is every single bottle-nosed dolphin interacting with the global bottle-nosed dolphin community at large? That's not how…

Well they don't exactly have the kind of civilized comforts that we do, and need means to get that, so would you expect any different? I'm sure the noise pollution we do in the ocean doesn't help.. Probably like someone screaming in your ear you entire life. Can you imagine the frustration and irritability of it?

I have long had a novice's interest in cetacean intelligence generally and dolphin and orca intelligence specifically. Although far from an expert, I'm fairly certain that the first translation from a male dolphin will be "A penis! I have a penis! Look at my penis! A penis! I have a penis!" The first one from a…

Want to annoy both laymen and scientists? Build a machine that can translate Dolphin, but only into fluent Klingon.

I recently came up with this idea, and it seems like a good idea to me. What if we constructed a fairly simple new language, using sounds that dolphins could vocalize. We could use computers to generate the audio. The dolphins (probably younger ones, I would imagine) could then be taught this langauge. We know they…

And that's why it's so important to eat dolphin-safe tuna. 'Cuz eating chicken of the sea is one thing. Assholes of the sea, on the other hand...

Marine animals don't use vision as much as terrestrial animals do.

...ok fine. Edge of the galaxy. Same diff.

By either estimate the distance is beyond staggering. It's huge conceptual weight bludgeons you repeatedly with a lead pipe in a dark alley in Pyongyang and then expects you stand up and walk away after it's taken your rice ration stamps.

You seem to be suggesting something like Olber's Paradox but there are ways to arrange matter and energy over an infinite space-time so you don't have this problem.

I thought this question had been answered already.

We always have to deal with either there being a place where all existence stops, or infinity. If there are universes outside our universe, either THAT will go on infinitely, or there will be a point at which existence of some sort stops. Neither makes any rational sense.