3 ms·

"Thus humans do not invent mathematics, but rather discover it, and any other intelligent beings in the universe would presumably do the same." I pretty sure i

• sorokod 6y ago
  Beyond "more efficient to move stuff around" by whatever definition of effincy, what would those principles be?
• onion2k 6y ago
  I believe that first vehicles created by some alien civilization would work on a similar principles as ours. The way vehicles work on Earth is mostly a function of the environment - we use wheels because they work well in our gravity, we use fossil fuels because the history of Earth has made them abundant, we use fixed-wing flight because it works in our relatively dense atmosphere. On an alien planet with much lower gravity they might never have invented the wheel, or one with a much less dense atmosphere they might never have managed to make a wing big enough to support flight. It assumes a lot about an alien work to suggest they have anything like the same sort of problems to overcome that we have.