RE: UFO's
October 6, 2019 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2019 at 1:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 6, 2019 at 1:32 pm)Succubus Wrote:(October 6, 2019 at 1:07 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: <Much snipped for focus> What happens if the first alien who comes to us are technologically more backwards and poorer then we are...
How would they get here?
Solar sails? Chemical rockets? This is several centuries in the future, they can have stuff we can’t imagine today, and still be a technological behind where we would be then. The Chinese had far better ships and technology overall in the 1400s, but it was the Europeans who made much better use of inferior ships and discovered America, and reached China, instead of the other way round.w
Maybe they are more advanced than we are in one area, but we are more advanced in several others. So the Europeans had better ships and better astronomy than the Indians in the early 1700s, but the Indians were still competitive or superior in many areas of farming and metallurgy, and arguably some aspects of military technology as well. Yet queen victoria became the empress of India, while no india prince ever became emperor of British isles.
