Why are aliens always more advanced than us??
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lokis_angels — 11 years ago(January 06, 2015 01:59 PM)
Who are you (or anyone) to tell them aliens what technology they can or cannot have? Just the fact we can't do these things doesn't mean nobody can.
I actually liked the fact nothing of this is being explained. It's like "we're here, deal with it."
I also likes the fact the aliens needed our brains to operate, though I am a bit stuck on how that works. Obviously a new brain is no biggie, just when Jarrod gets used, he's able to think for himself and in favour of his girl, in fact an enemy. Maybe because he had looked at them twice or something. -
zender8584 — 14 years ago(September 22, 2011 04:26 PM)
Actually, if they are able to fly at near the speed of light, they don't need to bring nearly 4 years of supplies to go 4 light years as measured at the home planet. True, 4 LY would pass at their home planet, but in their frame of reference, spacetime would be compressed.
No evidence (to date) that Proxima Centauri has gas giants (or terrestrial planets for that matter). It's possible, though not certain, that you need a gas giant in a solar system to evolve intelligent life if it is to evolve on a terrestrial planet otherwise the constant bombardment by debris will reset the evolutionary clock too often.
But, my gut feeling is that interstellar travel, if it is possible, will not be straight lines through spacetime as we currently concieve it, but some technology which we haven't even thought of that allows shortcuts. Whether you call that wormholes, or white holes or whatever. Sadly, none of us will be alive to ever find out. -
fluffchop — 11 years ago(March 06, 2015 04:04 AM)
I think you're uneducated. A light year is the DISTANCE light travels in one Earth year. Time isn't compressed?!?!?! 4 Lights years don't pass?!?!?! at their home planet? A ship travelling a DISTANCE of 4 light years at the speed of light takes 4 years.
Until a unified field theory is decided upon, not one with string theory or loop quantum gravity, we will never know how to overcome gravity.
Magnetism and Electricity are inexorably linked. Gravity and mass are linked by light which behaves both as waves and particles.
What is the mass of light if it travels at the speed of light? Ok so light from a 25watt light globe has how much energy?
It must be that one can travel at any speed without requiring infinite energy. We just don't understand gravity yet, or it's opposing force. It has to be there. We just can't see it.
This movie blows by the way. Utter crap, a waste of time watching it. I'm sure the directors think they're the Wachowski brothers with this crap. Oh look honey, they went for an open ended ending so they can have a sequel that nobody wants.
Scientologists love Narnia, there's plenty of closet space. -
Taylorfirst1 — 15 years ago(November 19, 2010 08:03 AM)
At least in this movie, the aliens did not have super impenetrable shields. That cliche has been done since at least "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers". The makers of this movie got slightly more creative giving the aliens self repair abilities and overwhelming numbers. It was nice to see some of the alien drones get taken out during the battle, made it a little more exciting. Still a B-movie though.
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howard_w13 — 15 years ago(November 19, 2010 10:18 AM)
The way I see it; they're probably observing us from afar. If they have the technology to travel here; wouldn't it be safe to assume that they also possess the means to watch us? Besides; it would kinda stupid for them to travel all the way here to this planet with no clue as to what expect.
Either way; I still can't over the lack of creativity in this story.
The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!! (_) -
UberNoodle — 15 years ago(December 03, 2010 08:40 PM)
How could they oberve us unless they have a kind of spy network already in place here, or have sent probes. Otherwise, they'd need some kind device capable of seeing Earth in sufficient detail from light years away. How would those probes or spys get the information back to the home planet? Physical transport could take years, even at the speed of light. A broadcast would require focus and power that could be easily percieved and intercepted by "Earthlings". Otherwise, a broadcast is also slow. If anything, such data could be years or even decades out of date, or more actually. Perhaps they have technology to bend space and time.
That these factors are overcome with ease, would be more of a stretch than lightspeed travel.
And for all we know, the ships were generation ships, travel sub-light speed, in search of a new home. In such a case they may have indeed set forth with little knowledge of where they may end up. That's what humans will do when we leave the solar system, and we have done it also in countless SF stories. -
king_of_bob — 14 years ago(August 28, 2011 07:42 PM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_probe#Von_Neumann_probes
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa! -
darkside2501 — 15 years ago(November 21, 2010 08:02 PM)
Because they made it here to begin with.
Also, there are plenty of movies/series where aliens are not more advanced technologically than humans:
-Star Trek
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-Avatar
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spam-1164 — 15 years ago(December 05, 2010 01:55 AM)
As evidenced by your list, technological advancement is not the only kind. In Star Trek we humans were actually far far behind the other races in terms of technology when first contact occurred with the Vulcans. In Invasion Of The Body Snatchers the aliens possessed superior methods of control due to their very nature. In Avatar the natural fauna (and, to some extent, the flora) of the planet gave the aliens an edge in the war. In Starship Troopers the aliens had evolved to develop a range of biological advancements over us from telepathy to colonisation and even ground-orbit artillery.
It really is difficult to come up with any film where aliens are less advanced than us if you don't only count the level of technology, but you're right, that is due to the fact that they managed to get here in the first place. -
roblov1 — 15 years ago(November 25, 2010 04:10 PM)
Try to come up with a coherent statement next time. This wasn't remotely funny or intelligent. Whatever you were attempting to do, you failed miserably.
I find it truly pathetic that the author of the original comment is whining about typical movies where the aliens have superior technology and others are talking about man's evil nature. Everyone pining for the 'noble savage' alien is pathetic. It is likely that any alien we do encounter that aggressively enters our solar system would be intent on wiping us out as quickly as possible. If they're carbon based, they would probably try to use our planetary resources. Our only chance would be much like The War of the Worlds and the Europeans first entries into the Americas having microbes kill off the aliens because they don't have any resistances to our diseases. Anything else would just be wishful thinking.
Aliens won't use a Windows OS or Apple for the fanboys out there so no Independence Day scenarios. Sorry. -
UberNoodle — 15 years ago(December 03, 2010 07:57 PM)
Um, OP, that is the most shortsighted question I've read in a while. The fact that these aliens were able to traverse space from beyond our solar system, shows that they MUST be more advanced that us. We haven't even sent humans beyond the moon yet.
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pimpdaddymax — 15 years ago(December 14, 2010 01:21 AM)
If they're aliens and we know nothing about them how can anybody explain where they come from? In movie terms, it would have virtually no impact on the story and 99% of the time is actually doesn't. So what do we do, invite the aliens onto Good Morning America, David Letterman or Conan for a sit down before they annihilate use for the sake of knowing where they came from first?
On a side note, nobody's mentioned Battlefield Earth yet.