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 Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
And how can you be so certain that aliens are conventional?
You overestimate our current science; you seemingly think that there are currently documented answers for everything. Remember, it was just 400 years ago that the Geocentric Model was still in full force.How long have humans been around? 200,000 years? At most 250,000 years? And yet, humans have only been able to fly for like the past 250 years or so. Yet in those 250 years, we've been able to
A) Cross the Atlantic in no time
B) Send people to the moon (some may argue this)
C) Send a robot thing to Mars
D) Send a probe to the outer limits of the Solar System, launched 40 years ago that still communicates with us to this day.
Cell phones are ubiquitous now, but only 30 years ago they were pretty much science fiction.
250 fucking years out of 200,000. What will we be capable of in the next 250? What will we be capable of in the next 200,000?
A more appropriate question and line of thought would be: do we really want to meet aliens? Remember, throughout our civilization, every time a people met another people it ended in bloodshed and oppression, with the ones with the bigger weapons writing the history.
On the contrary, physical science theory is extreeeeeemely advanced. We're figuratively light years ahead of engineering capacity. In fact, developing that elusive theory of everything would do very little to change our engineering. We know the physical limitations quite well, and our engineering limits are mainly a product of limited energy and power.
No level of computing power will teach us how to violate thermodynamics, but it will show us how to engineer really cool shit. In many other posts I've stated that we're going to achieve crazy tech levels like immunity to aging and indistinguishable virtual reality, even possibly quantum factories, but that's because that stuff is theoretically possible. Breaking spacetime disagrees with our already very strong understanding of physics
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