Why do we always assume aliens are more advanced than us?
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What if aliens are almost exactly like us, technology wise, but look different, and they're just as disappointed as us when we contact them.
What if our planets are (For example) 500au's apart. What if we just kind of, meet half-way at 250au's? why do we immediately assume that because they're aliens, that they have hover-technology and have created some sort of battery that runs forever and doesn't pollute?
What if they're LESS advanced even, and just stumbled upon space exploration by accident?
Steven hawking once said that aliens will probably have used up their natural resources and will just be nomadic people looking for planets to use.
What if aliens are to the point where they don't abuse they're environment? what if these aliens don't hate their planet?
Because we always assume Aliens will find us first.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21575424]
What if aliens are to the point where they don't abuse they're environment? what if these aliens don't hate their planet?[/QUOTE]
Then they have resources. I assume we'll try to take it over and abuse the shit out of it.
Well if they weren't, I would be all for abusing their species and exploiting their planet's resources.
Because space travel requires an advanced level of tech.
Well, what's to say we were the first intelligent species to evolve?
Chances are if there is other intelligent life out there (and I hope there is) some may have evolved before us and have much more efficient technology and power than we do. In relative terms that is.
Can't rule out possibilities
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;21575452]Because space travel requires an advanced level of tech.[/QUOTE]
Unless it/they evolved in space...
if they meet us half way from each other's planets, then they wont be that dumb, now would they?
most likely, we won't find any life when we are still bound to this planet. We might if we go out to keep our selves alive when the sun burns out. But we have no idea how intelligent life will be.
They're even going to be apes or angels.
To quote Douglas Adams, space is really, [i]really[/i] big. To be able to travel to another solar system in anything resembling a reasonable time would require tremendous speed; it seems reasonable to assume that their technology would be pretty damn advanced to travel that far. There's every likelihood that in certain areas we might in fact know far more than them, but overall the chances would tend towards them being far more advanced.
Since we can't travel any significant distance in space yet, we assume that any aliens that could reach us would be more advanced than us. In order to reach us, they would require immense resources, thus posing the threat that they might harvest the earth. Natural selection implies that they'll most likely care first and foremost about the preservation of their own species.
What if we encounter a species of border-line robots (kind of like vulcans) and they have no idea what freedom is, only what is logical, and then we just teach them socrates, and they all break out into war and shit.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21575639]What if we encounter a species of border-line robots (kind of like vulcans) and they have no idea what freedom is, only what is logical, and then we just teach them socrates, and they all break out into war and shit.[/QUOTE]
vulcans are not robots >.>
If they had obtained a level of technology able to travel to different stars but had not advanced culturally, they would be something similar to the Goa'uld in Stargate. Having technology advance beyond culture often results in misuse, primitive societies with Nuclear weapons do stupid things with them.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21575639]What if we encounter a species of border-line robots (kind of like vulcans) and they have no idea what freedom is, only what is logical, and then we just teach them socrates, and they all break out into war and shit.[/QUOTE]
You seem to be under the impression that neither freedom nor Socrates is logical.
Will they think that we're racist after they see the videogames about them?
I think the universe is large enough to contain aliens that are less advanced than us and aliens that are more advanced than us.
[QUOTE=Turd92;21575706]I think the universe is large enough to contain aliens that are less advanced than us and aliens that are more advanced than us.[/QUOTE]
What he/she said.
because it'd be fucking depressing to be the most advanced race in the universe
we're still blowing each other up and watching the jersey shore for fucks sake
There could be aliens as advanced as us, they could be far, far more advanced, or they could be simple living cells, but with the vast, vast amount of planets, there is bound to be something advanced, if us humans alone on this planet have advanced this much, I'm sure life on other planets could of advanced just as far, if not a lot more.
But on the other hand, they could be a range of simple bacteria, I think people just assume that they are more advanced because that is what they are brought up being told, e.g if you ask someone to draw an alien they would draw something along the lines of a Grey that travels in a flying saucer which shoots lasers, because that is what the majority of media shows them as.
So in a nutshell, the universe is so vast, that it is near to impossible that living things only exist on one planet in the entire universe. So there could be both aliens far, far far, greater advanced, and aliens far, far, far less advanced.
Anyway time will tell, it's just a sad point that I probably won't be around at this time.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21575424]What if aliens are almost exactly like us, technology wise, but look different, and they're just as disappointed as us when we contact them.
What if our planets are (For example) 500au's apart. What if we just kind of, meet half-way at 250au's? why do we immediately assume that because they're aliens, that they have hover-technology and have created some sort of battery that runs forever and doesn't pollute?
What if they're LESS advanced even, and just stumbled upon space exploration by accident?
Steven hawking once said that aliens will probably have used up their natural resources and will just be nomadic people looking for planets to use.
What if aliens are to the point where they don't abuse they're environment? what if these aliens don't hate their planet?[/QUOTE]
Because in the 13 billion years or so the Universe has existed, the chance that another race we find is younger than 50,000 years (Estimated age of the Human Race, largely concurrent between DNA and the bible). is unlikely.
Plus, it's unlikely we'll find another race first as our technology is still very limited, and we have not seen any forms of life in the Hubble Space Telescope, even though it's seen trillions of stars and galaxies.
So, it's more likely than not that an alien race will discover us first, and is more advanced, because our race is so young in the timeless age of the universe.
The Bubble Space Telescope can't read newspapers on other planets :downs:
what bricknhead said
it would fucking suck if we were the brainiest ones out there
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21575424]What if aliens are almost exactly like us, technology wise, but look different, and they're just as disappointed as us when we contact them.
What if they're LESS advanced even, and just stumbled upon space exploration by accident?
What if aliens are to the point where they don't abuse they're environment? what if these aliens don't hate their planet?[/QUOTE]
Someone just watched avatar
I don't think we will be. We started very late in the game.
It's a fair point, we can't say for sure how much another alien race may have evolved. I see this point also as another hint that traveling near or faster than light (there are certain solutions that alow that, mind you) is impossible :sigh:
Because we realize we're a bunch of idiots? :v:
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;21575760]because it'd be fucking depressing to be the most advanced race in the universe
we're still blowing each other up and watching the jersey shore for fucks sake[/QUOTE]
Saying that humans are dumb is like saying the best football player sucks, humans are the best you know, and that football player is the best you know.
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;21575694]Will they think that we're racist after they see the videogames about them?[/QUOTE]
We shouldn't let them play Fallout 3 with Mothership Zeta installed.
They might get... [i]"ideas."[/i]
Maybe the capital, which also appears to be the only kind of city of the aliens, will be placed on the pretty much only source for some rare crystal that can be used as a fuel, which needs us to intervene with their lives and kill them all and blow them to pieces
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