RE: Reaction to extra-terrestial life.
August 19, 2014 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2014 at 11:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that they would need machines to be our peers.
Similarly, we assume that they would need technology vastly superior to ours only because we approach the subject with our biology in mind (the reason our technology would have to be impressive to get there is directly tied to how fragile our biology is in the environment of the vacuum, our longevity, etc). Exobiology wouldn't necesarrily find itself under those same constraints - and so even if they -were- machine builders who flew here, that machine wouldn't have to be very impressive to us. Perhaps they just pointed a cannon at random and held onto the shell. I think that we'd still be impressed...lol, I know I would....but not at their method of transportation, more accurately, not at the machine they leveraged.
We may not be all that primitive with regards to technology at all. Hell, for all we know, we're the best machine builders in the cosmos - but none of that would stop exobiology from finding "some other way"" - in principle.
(obviously I'm biased, the most impressive machine on our own spaceships, to me, is the pilot)
Similarly, we assume that they would need technology vastly superior to ours only because we approach the subject with our biology in mind (the reason our technology would have to be impressive to get there is directly tied to how fragile our biology is in the environment of the vacuum, our longevity, etc). Exobiology wouldn't necesarrily find itself under those same constraints - and so even if they -were- machine builders who flew here, that machine wouldn't have to be very impressive to us. Perhaps they just pointed a cannon at random and held onto the shell. I think that we'd still be impressed...lol, I know I would....but not at their method of transportation, more accurately, not at the machine they leveraged.
We may not be all that primitive with regards to technology at all. Hell, for all we know, we're the best machine builders in the cosmos - but none of that would stop exobiology from finding "some other way"" - in principle.
(obviously I'm biased, the most impressive machine on our own spaceships, to me, is the pilot)
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