True alien technology
would be a scary thing to encounter. It would just be somehow wrong. Maybe it has a spatial fold in the space it occupies so the more you look at it, the more your eyes and your head hurt from trying to make sense of what you aren't seeing.Maybe it looks like a 35 gallon fuel drum, but with an oval hole in the side. Maybe the body looks like it is made out of cast iron, but not quite. Maybe it just sits there in the corner of the room. In the oval opening you can maybe see some gears laying strangely....But are they gears or something that just looks like gears, laying diagonally against nothing. No that's not it. You liik harder and maybe the hairs on the back of your neck begin to stand up because you just realized one of the cast gear things inside the object is larger than the object, a lot larger and inside the opening you realize that although the can in front of you is only 3 feet tall you can see at least 100 feet down inside it and there is no back to the inside of the can, just miles of gear things inside the small can.
Alien technology would be like that.
Picture an old time Roman or Macedonian soldier hearing a weird noise in the forest of town. Upon investigating he observers what is to us a fairly familiar object, but is to him the most terrifying thing he has ever seen or imagined. A running chain saw bouncing around on the forest floor, all plastic and metal growling loudly with a spinning chain powered by nothing remotely understandable biting at the forest floor and whatever it hits.
Would any sane person remain there and perhaps pick it up? Or would they run to tell others at once, or would they simply flee for their lives before more of the monsters come?
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Would any sane person remain there and perhaps pick it up? Or would they run to tell others at once, or would they simply flee for their lives before more of the monsters come?
I don't understand a lot of advanced technology as it is but can accept it because someone human knows how to use it. Even a giant JCB looks scary plucking at things with a giant claw, but you can see a human at the controls. No cab, or a purple blob with tentacles and antenna - instant meltdown.
So too would it probably be for any of us humans who actually encounter a piece of Alien technology.
If you have seen one meat sack in fatigues and a flight suit I bet they look more and more alike all the time.
The same would be true of a Macedonian suddenly encountering a chain saw left running on a forest floor. When they finally stopped running 3 towns away to tell the local Priest at the temple of Zeus what had been seen even his or her language would have problems describing a bouncing chainsaw on the forest floor.
Does a word or phrase for toothed chain even exist in ancient Greek? Ooo we are a lot smarter now, we can string words like dimensional fold together. But do we yet understand folds in reality? How would you describe an 11 sided pyramid? Technology not understood is both scary and dangerous.
My head hurts just reading all this.
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And can you recommend the best time and place for a potential probing ??
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And can you recommend the best time and place for a potential probing ??
Asking for a friend