Nov
17
What makes us think that Aliens have more technology than us?
In the media, they always show how much technology aliens have like flying saucers, lazer guns, etc…
I don’t believe in aliens and i was just wondering what makes media think that some creatures (that is not even true) has more technology than us?
Answer by Noneed N
don’t know,don’t care!!
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Simply put: we are embarrassed that, even though we know so much about how large the universe is…we haven’t been able to put together decent enough technology to explore it efficiently.
So we resort to the hope…that some day we will discover some alien species who use the equivalent to an “airplane” to travel the universe instead of a “tri-cycle” (IE our technology).
It is likely because when many people think about aliens, they think about beings that have visited Earth. Anyone with common sense realizes that we humans can barely visit the moon so any being that has traversed the Solar System, the galaxy, or the Universe must have far superior knowledge and technology than ourselves.
Any aliens that have picked up one of our signals sent into space and have responded are either well with in an optimum range (for example, 10 ly away instead of 100 or 1000 ly). That was if someone did hear us 10 ly away, we’ll all likely still be around to hear their response). It is also possible that they have technology to accelerate an electromagnetic signal faster than we can or have “another means.”
I do believe in aliens, just not any that have visited or Earth or our Solar System. I believe in the ones that may be looking at our star, the Sun, the same way we may be looking at their star.
It’s simple. Life on Earth has been around for billions of years. Life smart enough to communicate with radio telescopes or otherwise over interstellar distances has existed for about 100 years. That’s 1/10,000,000th of the time. What are the chances of running into aliens that are smart enough to communicate that are as dumb as us? Not very high. So all Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) that we encounter will be smarter than we are for the foreseeable future.
It used to be thought that hydrogen was the most common element in the Universe. But now it has been proven beyond possible doubt that this isn’t the case. The most common element is stupidity.
well what makes you think that there is only one kind of alien?
the ones that have less technology than us, certainly wouldn’t be able to reach us from space.
To begin with, I am agnostic when it comes to aliens. I do not know if they exist or not, but I fully believe they’re possible, even /probable/. But they certainly are not humanoid or reptilian like popular culture would have us wonder; I despise that depiction.
But to answer your question, it’s quite simple: any civilization that is able to contact or discover us before we discover them is probably more advanced than ours, especially one that is able to somehow bridge the distance across star systems or galaxies. But…
…there’s no reason to think that all extraterrestrial life, even those species that have formed civilizations, is more advanced than ours.
Granted, our planet is around 5 billion years old, and life on it about 3 to 4 billion. But planets are not all the same age; imagine what a head-start a planet just a couple million years older than Earth has. At the current rate of technology, humans will not even need that long to attain the sort of advances that we commonly ascribe to so-called “advanced” extraterrestrials (that is, provided we don’t exterminate or sabotage ourselves first, which is a very real possibility). Of course, aliens are totally foreign and exotic, and they may have completely different forms of intelligence not permitting technological advance as we have come to know, so there’s always that to consider. And there are also those planets significantly younger than Earth to think about; they may still be in the alien equivalent of the Jurassic age!
But, given the size of the Universe, I’d say…it’s my personal belief there must at least one alien civilization out there that has progressed farther than we have so far. We may never know them, though.
So yeah, media is misguided in its assumptions, but not totally implausible.
Any aliens who are HERE on earth, definitely have more technology than us.
As has been said, if they’re here then they’re obviously much more clever than we in certain ways.
Entertainment uses aliens as a sort of deus or diabolus ex machina. That is, since it’s easy to accept the possibility of non-human, non-terrestrial intelligence and since their attributes and properties are naturally entirely speculative, it grants fiction-writers license to endow their space creatures with whatever properties make the fiction work best.