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> but that's not a long time for measuring their technology level, especially if their average lifespan is similar to ours. 2022-640=1382 The age of tech. adv
by dmitriid 4y ago
> but that's not a long time for measuring their technology level, especially if their average lifespan is similar to ours.
2022-640=1382
The age of tech. advances such as water mills and three-crop rotation.
- prennert 4y agoThis is just about the time banking became a thing in Italy. Most(?) humans would still be in pre-history. Maybe you could detect increased activity along the silk-road if you look closely. Pollution levels in the atmosphere would still be dominated by volcanic activity. No guarantee that this planet would ever get anywhere...
- bigbillheck 4y ago> Most(?) humans would still be in pre-history This is a very non-standard use of the term 'pre-history'.
- andyjohnson0 4y agoOr if "they" are only a thousand years ahead of us technologically then 640 years ago could be when they started building large visible structures like space elevators or orbiting habitats.
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoSure, those don't feel much like tech at our current pace of change, but it's millions of years further up the tech tree than, say, feathers, thermoregulation, photosynthesis, or multicellular organisms.