Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation

Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by sgt101 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:58AM (#29401728)

>Looking back historically, many of the European powers of the 1500s-1800s were literally millennia ahead of the people they colonised in terms of technological prowess.

I don't think this is true. India was colonized, and it had very comparable technology - perhaps 50 or 100 years behind. There are cases of very primative people being colonised of course, but often the capabilities of other civilisations are minimised in our history - for example north american natives are seen as hunter gatherers whereas there was extensive farming and land exploitation in many places in the USA - along with pottery and settled living.

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Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by AussieWog93 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:01AM (#29402630)

OK, perhaps I could have been a little bit more precise with my language, given this is HN, but the overall point still stands.

We have hands-on experience as a species with technologically primitive societies being discovered by technologically advanced societies and going on to influence language and philosophy.

Given this, I don't think it's a given that an advanced alien race would look at us as not worth their time.

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