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Why would aliens capable of getting ships to Earth and engineering intelligent life want our technology? In this scenario they'd have to have been far beyond ou
by agentwiggles 5y ago
Why would aliens capable of getting ships to Earth and engineering intelligent life want our technology? In this scenario they'd have to have been far beyond our current capabilities hundreds of thousands of years ago. What could the technology of a bunch of hairless apes on some intergalactic backwater have to offer these hypothetical aliens?
- datavirtue 5y agoGold, diamonds, land, water.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoAside from land, space has all of that more abundantly than Earth. It doesn't make sense to deal with some creatures for those resources.
- datavirtue 5y agoTrue. Maybe they just need housing.
- Flankk 5y agoYou're assuming technological development is linear. In reality, it can develop in an infinite number of directions. We existed naturally for 200,000 years and produced no more technology than a chimpanzee. It is only in very recent history that humanity has undergone a technological explosion from very primitive beginnings. What do you think changed. We are now attempting to use AI to develop new technology ourselves, with limited results. If we could harvest some outside intelligence, we would.