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I think any civilization capable of capturing and analyzing this 1970s tech would find it pretty trivial. Granted they're going to have a totally alien mindset
by svachalek 3y ago
I think any civilization capable of capturing and analyzing this 1970s tech would find it pretty trivial. Granted they're going to have a totally alien mindset but they're going to be a spacefaring people which should give us some things in common. And they managed to find this one special piece of space dust in the first place.
When 'Oumuamua came through our system all we could do is speculate about it from a distance, and we'd have to be much, much more advanced than we are for that to change. Although, possibly we could find remnants of alien tech as wreckage on the Moon and similar places.
- midoridensha 3y ago>I think any civilization capable of capturing and analyzing this 1970s tech would find it pretty trivial. Maybe, maybe not. You're making a lot of assumptions. Spacefaring aliens might have very primitive technologies in some sectors. Earth could be invaded, for instance, by spacefaring aliens with weapons technology similar to that from sailing ships of the 1700s (gunpowder-fired cannons): the key to FTL travel might have been a relatively simple part of physics we just somehow overlooked. Aliens might have spacecraft tech that looks like the Apollo technology.
- thereddaikon 3y agoI see someone has read the road not taken.