Howard Pines on August 22, 2013
The Interspecies Communication Imperative
Fact 1: Human beings slaughtered over two million whales in the 20th century. Fact 2: Whales and dolphins have, by far, the largest advanced brains in the solar system. So what are waiting for? The sleeper must awaken! Since the history of the world is a slaughter bench, because of actors that did not think and thinkers that did not act, now is the time to act. We now have the means, the motive, and the opportunity to decipher the languages of earth’s other big-brained beings, before they are crushed by the juggernaut of human exceptionalism.