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Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by emiliobumachar on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:35AM (#19807169)
I don't know if faster-than-light travel would necessarily accompany other technologies indistinguishable from magic.

The Romans were arguably a flash of insight away from the hot air balloon, they had good uses for it and all the prerequisite techs. Analogously, we might be one really good flash of insight away from technology we'll just actually get a thousand years from now. So the aliens could be otherwise on our tech level, but they just figured out warp drive.

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Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by DuskStar on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:20PM (#19810890)
Who says that warp drive even requires most of the things in our tech tree? I'm reminded of Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken" here: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
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Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by emiliobumachar on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:38PM (#19811844)
+1, what a brilliant piece of fiction, thanks!
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Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by jacobush on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:15AM (#19808098)
Very interesting thought. Imagine optical telegraph relay stations, or scouting with moored hot air balloons. Nothing could probably shoot them down, either.
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