Looking at humans, some cultures may seem more advanced, but they really just have better access to key resources. Or maybe they’re more advanced in one key way, but less in others.
I think about some resource rich countries that don’t have to spend much on fuel, just because it’s so plentiful.
I think about how China invented gunpowder, but Europeans were the ones who weaponized it. At the time, it would be hard to say Europeans were more advanced overall than the Chinese, except their weaponry allowed them to think so.
I think about dolphins. We’re supposedly way more advanced than them, but we can’t quite have a conversation with them.
Anyway, it could be that aliens aren’t a wildly more mature race, they just got lucky in some ways. And maybe they seem more advanced just because they’re strange. I think we jump to conclusions assuming they’re overwhelmingly more advanced than us.
Submitted January 17, 2022 at 04:18AM by SportyNewsBear https://ift.tt/34Zh2JV
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