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originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
I was reading this book by William J. Birnes that I got on Amazon kindle. "The Day After Roswell". Not a very original name for a book about aliens, right?
He was describing his career in the Pentagon's "Foreign Technology" desk. Supposedly his job involved taking artifacts recovered from the Roswell crash, and bringing them to American corporations to be reverse engineered. He would tell them they were from other countries, as a cover story.
Anyway, he describes this microprocessor recovered from the crash as having transistors so small he needed a magnifying glass to see them. As of now, in 2019, human processing technology is already further advanced than that. To see the transistors on a modern microprocessor you would need a very powerful microscope.
So I'm wondering, is it possible the aliens are only slightly more advanced than we are?
Suppose they travel at a speed slower than light, but only slightly slower. A thousand years could pass on Earth, and it would be like a single day for them, because of time dilation.
But the difference in the rate of passage of time would mean their technology isn't advancing, wouldn't it?
But the difference in the rate of passage of time would mean their technology isn't advancing, wouldn't it?
originally posted by: DupontDeux
a reply to: bloodymarvelous
But the difference in the rate of passage of time would mean their technology isn't advancing, wouldn't it?
Interesting thought - and yes it would.
However, they might out-advance us by hundreds of millennia by the time they set out. We know that at the very least they out-advance us by enough to be capable of interstellar travel.
Odd to consider that supposed alien technology, would use recognizable, (by us), microprocessors and transistors, no?
originally posted by: odzeandennz
What if the more advanced we become the less we want to explore, supposing we also advance biologically and have less need for medicine, resources or 'yearning' to explore.
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
Suppose they travel at a speed slower than light, but only slightly slower. A thousand years could pass on Earth, and it would be like a single day for them, because of time dilation.
But the difference in the rate of passage of time would mean their technology isn't advancing, wouldn't it?
originally posted by: Nothin
a reply to: bloodymarvelous
Odd to consider that supposed alien technology, would use recognizable, (by us), microprocessors and transistors, no?