RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 8, 2012 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 4:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Consider this:
Our rate of technoloigcal progress is controlled by our rate of thinking, our reflexes, our sociology. Ultimately these things are governed on a gross scale by the rate of our cellular motabolism - the rate at whioch biochemical processes critical to our thinking takes place.
There is no reason I am aware of to suppose advanced species would all advance their technologies at roughly the same rate. Some species may hail from very cold worlds, which puts a limit on the rate at which critical biochemical processes can take place, and thus by extension, the speed with which they can think, and the speed with which they can advance their technologies. If they by chance evolved on a planet much older than ours, and thus attained advanced technologies earlier than we did, What would be their logical reaction to us, knowing the fundamental limitations of their biology would allow us to predicatbly surpass them if they don't put brakes on our development?
Our rate of technoloigcal progress is controlled by our rate of thinking, our reflexes, our sociology. Ultimately these things are governed on a gross scale by the rate of our cellular motabolism - the rate at whioch biochemical processes critical to our thinking takes place.
There is no reason I am aware of to suppose advanced species would all advance their technologies at roughly the same rate. Some species may hail from very cold worlds, which puts a limit on the rate at which critical biochemical processes can take place, and thus by extension, the speed with which they can think, and the speed with which they can advance their technologies. If they by chance evolved on a planet much older than ours, and thus attained advanced technologies earlier than we did, What would be their logical reaction to us, knowing the fundamental limitations of their biology would allow us to predicatbly surpass them if they don't put brakes on our development?
