17th April 2005, 4:40 PM
Quote:Imagine if aliens invaded tomorrow with ridiculously advanced tech, I'm talking ships constructed of light with halos spinning around them stuff (if that wasn't physically impossible I'm saying). Are we likely to assume it must be magic? Well, in today's culture, probably not. I'm sure a lot of superstitious people would think it is, but there's plenty of people who would not think so.
That sort of technology would not be sufficiently advanced. We don't know how to make flying saucers and death rays, but the concept has been a part of cultural mythos for decades. The law would be harder to impress upon advanced cultures. But who on earth could have imagined a hundred and fifty years ago that man could fly, or go to the moon, or could create a weapon that could annihilate a whole city in less than a second? These sort of ideas were nothing but fantasy in 1860, the technology needed to create them decades away from even being thought of. Most people thought flight was impossible. They didn't have rapid-fire technology advances and science fiction like we do to help fill in the gaps. The smartest genius of 1860 could look at a DVD player, examine it every way he knows how, and could likely not even begin to guess how it works. A light that can read a grooved disc, and produce moving color photography? Magic.
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