I prescribe to the idea that while life itself isnt particularly rare in the universe having inteligence to bring you to a space faring capacity is.
Humanity is a fluke of evolution. As every type of animal ultimately is. Inteligence isnt a game changer people prescribe it to be. In humans it takes 20% of our caloric intake. That inteligence has to pull its weight otherwise its weeded out in the population. In prehistory humanity was almost wiped out completely 3 times just by natural calamities. Theres also nothing stopping a society just sticking to the stone age if the conditions of their geography is mineral poor. Such as the pacific islanders or native Americans.
The pacific islanders didnt have metal to work with. Such staying as a sea faring people. Or the native americans dispite being relaticely advanced not being able get enough man power to make scientific advancements beyond observable data. That was due mainly to lack of beasts of burden, resorting to mass slavery as a literal manpower source.
This is on top of assuming any potential aliens would have the adaptions necessary for reading. Which is in humanities case was the most important advancement in retention of knowledge.
If they were just space dolphins than evolution is capped there. Since they would have no access to combustion to create rockets that could leave the atmosphere.
Life is relatively common the question is that are we the most advanced in the universe thus far. With us being sentient and perceiving our own history, time has slowed down for us. Thus our perception of the universe around us is caught in a snapshot. We could be surrounded by other life we just dont know it yet because they are so god damn far away.
I think another reason for lack of advancement was lack of domesticated animals and thus, large scale use of the wheel. It *did* exist in the Americas before European contact, but never used on a large scale, especially for travel.
No reason in mexico. It was hilly (understatement for peru), a boat was more practical for moving stuff, but that's general for everyone.
Roads require vast amount of work to establish and maintain. The tribes of north america couldn't pull that off. The aztecs had roads, but cargo transportation was best for water ways. If not either? Slaves.
IIN I have this opinion on aliens visiting our planet?
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I prescribe to the idea that while life itself isnt particularly rare in the universe having inteligence to bring you to a space faring capacity is.
Humanity is a fluke of evolution. As every type of animal ultimately is. Inteligence isnt a game changer people prescribe it to be. In humans it takes 20% of our caloric intake. That inteligence has to pull its weight otherwise its weeded out in the population. In prehistory humanity was almost wiped out completely 3 times just by natural calamities. Theres also nothing stopping a society just sticking to the stone age if the conditions of their geography is mineral poor. Such as the pacific islanders or native Americans.
The pacific islanders didnt have metal to work with. Such staying as a sea faring people. Or the native americans dispite being relaticely advanced not being able get enough man power to make scientific advancements beyond observable data. That was due mainly to lack of beasts of burden, resorting to mass slavery as a literal manpower source.
This is on top of assuming any potential aliens would have the adaptions necessary for reading. Which is in humanities case was the most important advancement in retention of knowledge.
If they were just space dolphins than evolution is capped there. Since they would have no access to combustion to create rockets that could leave the atmosphere.
Life is relatively common the question is that are we the most advanced in the universe thus far. With us being sentient and perceiving our own history, time has slowed down for us. Thus our perception of the universe around us is caught in a snapshot. We could be surrounded by other life we just dont know it yet because they are so god damn far away.
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I think another reason for lack of advancement was lack of domesticated animals and thus, large scale use of the wheel. It *did* exist in the Americas before European contact, but never used on a large scale, especially for travel.
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No reason in mexico. It was hilly (understatement for peru), a boat was more practical for moving stuff, but that's general for everyone.
Roads require vast amount of work to establish and maintain. The tribes of north america couldn't pull that off. The aztecs had roads, but cargo transportation was best for water ways. If not either? Slaves.