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Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp
Mind you, I'm playing Devil's advocate here as I keep an open mind to both sides of the argument, but as yourself pointed out we humans have only gone that distance using our level of technology.
Why would you expect an alien race to develop along the same timelines?
The environmental stresses they suffer might be different, pushing them to develop faster, or along completely different lines which would lead to more powerful technologies than our own.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson put it this way: the genetic difference between apes and humans is a mere 4 percent.
Yet that tiny difference is what put a man on the Moon and also created Auschwitz.
Now think what a genetically different alien being might come up with. |
i was actually reading this,even though i've already posted fermi's paradox, but i quit when you wrote the name of that television scientist that dumbs down science into the lowest common denominator for tv audiences.