RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 16, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2015 at 12:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Thank you for you condescension
I didn't say encounter will be on equal terms. Nevertheless, unlike how it may seem in the small milieu your narrow mind can conceive, the things about technology and behavior that can be learned is so vast that even very advanced civilizations are unlikely to have been able to fully enumerate and understand the implications of all possible technologies and behaviors that could have been facilitated along branches of trajectories of progress not taken before the current point it occupies, so it is not beyond reason to suppose even very advanced civilizations can learn a thing or two through contact with comparatively primitive cultures that would useful to the advanced culture. This does not mean the advanced culture won't have reason to crush the primitive culture like insects in many cases, But it does suggest experienced advanced cultures may in many cases see merit in also observing and interacting with the primitive cultures just as we observe and interact with ants and learn useful things from the exercise.
I didn't say encounter will be on equal terms. Nevertheless, unlike how it may seem in the small milieu your narrow mind can conceive, the things about technology and behavior that can be learned is so vast that even very advanced civilizations are unlikely to have been able to fully enumerate and understand the implications of all possible technologies and behaviors that could have been facilitated along branches of trajectories of progress not taken before the current point it occupies, so it is not beyond reason to suppose even very advanced civilizations can learn a thing or two through contact with comparatively primitive cultures that would useful to the advanced culture. This does not mean the advanced culture won't have reason to crush the primitive culture like insects in many cases, But it does suggest experienced advanced cultures may in many cases see merit in also observing and interacting with the primitive cultures just as we observe and interact with ants and learn useful things from the exercise.
