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I don't know if faster-than-light travel would necessarily accompany other technologies indistinguishable from magic. The Romans were arguably a flash of insig
by emiliobumachar 7y ago
I don't know if faster-than-light travel would necessarily accompany other technologies indistinguishable from magic.
The Romans were arguably a flash of insight away from the hot air balloon, they had good uses for it and all the prerequisite techs. Analogously, we might be one really good flash of insight away from technology we'll just actually get a thousand years from now. So the aliens could be otherwise on our tech level, but they just figured out warp drive.
- jacobush 7y agoVery interesting thought. Imagine optical telegraph relay stations, or scouting with moored hot air balloons. Nothing could probably shoot them down, either.
- DuskStar 7y agoWho says that warp drive even requires most of the things in our tech tree? I'm reminded of Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken" here: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
- emiliobumachar 7y ago+1, what a brilliant piece of fiction, thanks!