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jlf1961 -> The most intelligent species???? (7/7/2016 11:04:23 AM)
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Please note the sarcasm, as well as the basic truth.
We are constantly told that Humans are the dominant species on the planet due to our brain capacity and intelligence.
Now while this may be true for some individuals, my thoughts are that the majority of humans, while intelligent, are over all stupid as hell.
How not to start a fire
Of course there is the fact that people build homes and cities in places they KNOW are dangerous.
First example:
Naples Italy.
Now Naples is a beautiful city, old world charm, Roman ruins, built within the historic blast radius of some of Mt. Vesuvius more violent historic eruptions.
Now, if this city had been built with no historic human knowledge of an eruption, that would be one thing, but they actually have two damn good examples, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Two Roman cities destroyed in a violent, human witnessed, much documented (for the time) eruption.
Example two:
All the Indonesian cities built on the Sunda Strait AFTER the historic and devastating Krakatoa eruption.
Example three:
Every housing subdivision built on the slopes of currently erupting Hawaiian volcanoes.
Of course there were the four proposed nuclear power plants (one that damn near was completed) in California that were located on KNOWN active faults.
Every moron that swims in the ocean withing two miles of seal colonies. Sharks eat seals, so if you are stupid enough to swim, surfer or enter the water near a seal colony, you deserve to be shark bait.
Then there are the morons that habituate sharks to being hand fed for the tourists to take pictures. The best of example of the consequences of this stupidity is a series of shark attacks at an Egyptian resort on the Red Sea.
Over a course of a week, a number of tourists were attacked by an oceanic white tip shark, with one fatality. The experts were confused about the nature of the attacks since the shark seemed to target the victims buttocks. It was not until video of this particular shark surfaced of it being hand fed, and the diver doing the feeding kept a fanny pack of bait on his butt.
The shark (sharks are smarter than we thought) in the video had actually attacked the diver with the bait, stealing the fanny pack. After that, the shark decided that humans in the water all had fanny packs with food in them on their butts.
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