Your view is not crazy at all. If one is to put in a more provocative way, another possibility is that we are somehow trapped into a distorted reality by some cosmic misunderstanding or by "little green men" on purpose.
That being said, I think the view that "we are just doing it wrong" misses the whole point. We, as humans, are well aware of that possbility; yet this is simply the best we can do at the moment, given the postulation that these other creatures are made of the basic elements that are today within the grasp of our knowledge.
ps. As far as I know, that tribe turned out to be fake.
@ nagash
Your view is not crazy at all. If one is to put in a more provocative way, another possibility is that we are somehow trapped into a distorted reality by some cosmic misunderstanding or by "little green men" on purpose.
That being said, I think the view that "we are just doing it wrong" misses the whole point. We, as humans, are well aware of that possbility; yet this is simply the best we can do at the moment, given the postulation that these other creatures are made of the basic elements that are today within the grasp of our knowledge.
ps. As far as I know, that tribe turned out to be fake.