Re: ALIENS would be dumb! Stupid! Primitive!

On 11/30/25 2:14 PM, lomonosov wrote:

> We were doing ok this time until the ET masters of this alien ant farm

You're illustrating my point:  Most people are stupid twats who
can't see past their brainwashing.

If there's "Intelligent" species out there, most would have to be
pretty primitive yet everyone leaps to Star Trek... at the least.

"They have Warp Drive & stuff!"

Now let's imagine a species without conflict -- no war!

Great but, wars have advanced us further & faster than anything
else in existence. It's been one steady stream of Innovation vs.
Countermeasure for millennia now...

   ...do the Google on "Medical Advances Made During Vietnam War."

Medical advances. And then there's other advances, like night
vision systems...

Microwave ovens? Direct result of WWII and RADAR development...

Without war, I could conservatively state that you'd have to
erase centuries of human advancement, and probably more like an
entire millennia, at the very least.

So if a species had the exact same intellectual CAPACITY as us,
but didn't engage in war, they're likely well behind us in
technology, even if they're older.



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