[SoCal Pubbie]

Why wood aliens by necessity be highly advanced beyond human technology?

[varyouga]

“Why wood aliens by necessity be highly advanced beyond human technology?”

Because they will be coming from many light-years away and we barely made it to the moon

[cuban leaf]

Why wood aliens by necessity be highly advanced beyond human technology?

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Because they got here.

[PapaBear3625]

Why wood aliens by necessity be highly advanced beyond human technology?

We currently do not have interstellar capability. Therefore, any technology capable of interstellar travel must be at least somewhat more advanced than where humans currently are. Most likely, very much more advanced.

Thank about how current technology would seem to somebody from George Washington's time.

Now, this does not necessarily mean that any alien visitors will themselves be very advanced. Think about Somali pirates. They have purchased technology which they could not have developed themselves. We might encounter aliens who purchased/stole technology from more advanced aliens.

[Zeneta]

So Cal, I'm with you on this one.

Just because "They traveled really far, really fast and made it here", doesn't require them to be super intelligent as a necessity. I would suggest the folks that built their craft and navigation and life support would be very intelligent but not necessarily smarter than humans. And certainly those doing the traveling wouldn't need extraordinary intelligence.

Today's aircraft basically fly themselves.

There was a time when driving an automobile long distances required you having a mechanic along. Now cars are driving themselves.

At some point the technology would become so ubiquitous that any moron could use it.