[IceFire]

it really is sad that the discovery channel has turned into a reality TV and fiction channel

Agreed, TLC also used to have some substance but now its all repetitive reality show rejects, home and garden crap, and other BS. The few music videos MTV does display are cut to under a minute to fit the attention span, littered with pesky commentary and huge flashing visual artifacts, and the most annoying filler in between - stupid teenagers sitting on a crowded beach doing absolutley nothing.

The History Channel seems to get better though. They keep it tr00.

Just don't believe a word they say about WWII aviation.  I can attest to that and poke giant gaping holes in any of their aviation shows

[Janos]

I'm not saying we're more advanced than some species of insects because we build computers, I'm saying we're more advanced than some spcies of insects because humans live and breed in every place on Earth, while the particular insect species I'm referring to are dying out as their habitat is destroyed.  We've adapted - they didn't.  We're more advanced - or more fit.

Won't virus and bacteria be the most advanced lifeforms then?

Some particular bacteria are arguably the most advanced form of life on Earth.  They're also one of the simplest.  Go figure.  Archaea are even stranger.

Viruses are more complicated, because there is considerable debate over whether or not they are actually forms of life.  If you include viruses, however, arguably the most advanced form of life on Earth is Human papilloma virus, which over 80% of the population carries (harmlessly).

Doesn't that make advanced a null point anyways? Advanced = alive and doing well at some point. Seems completely unnecessary and arbitrary definition.

[Ace]

it really is sad that the discovery channel has turned into a reality TV and fiction channel

The History Channel seems to get better though. They keep it tr00.

Not really they're tunnel visioned on World War II and Rome, and even then there's gaping holes and inaccurate editorializing.

Their stuff on even earlier civilizations is utterly laughable...