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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i know it's an anthropromorhic reference point.
the fact of the matter is we have gone only as far as 238,000 miles out into the universe with a man on-board in 4.5 billion years and yes, that's a reference point.
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Mind you, I'm playing Devil's advocate here as I keep an open mind to both sides of the argument, but as yourself pointed out
we humans have only gone that distance using
our level of technology.
Why would you expect an alien race to develop along the same timelines?
The environmental stresses they suffer might be different, pushing them to develop faster, or along completely different lines which would lead to more powerful technologies than our own.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson put it this way: the
genetic difference between apes and humans is a mere 4 percent.
Yet that tiny difference is what put a man on the Moon and also created Auschwitz.
Now think what a genetically different alien being might come up with.