![]() Later they turn a Bussard Ram-Jet into a guided missile. It turns out that humans, having more experience with them, have much better rockets. A Larry Niven short story takes a jab at this when the Kzinti encounter puny humans, who are still stuck with rockets when the Kzinti acquired the next step however long ago.Elves invented effective contraception before we could use fire." and don't take to toilet training until they're about 200." "Yeah. When asked about the low population of elves, a PC replies, "Elven children breast feed for 30 years, teethe for 20 years, throw tantrums for about 100 years. Likewise in Irregular Webcomic!, possibly as an homage to the former.Parodied by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where a species with a lot of arms is specifically cited as being the only species to invent the underarm deodorant before the wheel.Billions of years ago Colu looked pretty much exactly like 21st century Earth, Krypton was early Space Age but with medievalish clothing under the spacesuits, Mars seemed to be in the Western era, and Tamara was in its Bronze Age (or possibly its Hyborean Age). Green Lanterns shows this with the worlds four of the First Lanterns came from.(They manage to reverse the effect, but the switch gets stuck.) only to discover the next day that he had reached the Crystal Spires and Togas level of intellectual development, gave all their money to charity, and went on to the UN to give a lecture on the elimination of crime and poverty. Amazed with the results, the other Boys ignore his warnings and break into Gyro's lab for the third time. The hyper-intelligent Boy then turns to cyber-crime and ATM machine cracking. This prompts the other Boys to give him the next dose. Over the next couple of days, he uses his newly heightened intelligence to develop a flawless bank robbery plan. While robbing Gyro's laboratory, one of the Beagle Boys gets accidentally hit in the head by Gyro's experimental " evolutionary ray". An interesting take on this trope happens in one of Disney Ducks comics, where it is played as a natural result of reaching consequent Evolutionary Levels.See Abusing the Kardashev Scale for Fun and Profit for some fun speculation. This has some actual reference in the real world Kardashev Scale ( how much total energy one gets to play with, no matter how). ![]() Contrast Schizo Tech, Aliens Never Invented the Wheel, Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology, Alternate Techline, Anachronism Stew and/or Fantasy Gun Control. See also: Enforced Technology Levels, Evolutionary Levels, In Spite of a Nail, and Tier System. I, for one, can only look forward to the day that crystal-based technology paves the way for our conversion into energy. For inspiring viewing, see the James Burke documentary series Connections, which shows the sometimes ludicrously unlikely places where inspiration and discovery come from, and the web-like connections between seemingly-unrelated inventions. Except, in this case the distant descendants of unrelated branches can inspire and influence the future of others. Remember, don't think path, think tree, just as with the evolution of biological lifeforms. ![]() However, mastering this technology does not actually give them an understanding of related concepts, or even concepts which would be required to use this technology in the first place (thus averting Possession Implies Mastery). It's only rarely that a civilization will break off the path, and usually as a result of external forces providing them with something outside their capabilities (intentionally, accidentally or incidentally), such as a 1920s planet with fusion power, or a 1700s planet with radios. ![]() An alien world with "Renaissance-era" technology in firearms will also possess lenses, ships, mathematical principles and sometimes even fashion identical to those of Earth (never mind the odds that an alien world would develop in a manner identical to a historical period that was a specifically European cultural phenomenon involving the rebirth and innovation of classical Greco-Roman civilization). Similarly, seemingly distinct and diverse technologies will always develop at the same rate. These copies are often similar enough that people who are from Earth often have no trouble at all using the device, or even interfacing their own hardware with it. Often, this takes the form of people not from Earth creating exact replicas of Earth technology right down to the last detail - such as interface panels ripped right out of the Apollo missions on an alien space station. In Hollywood, people seem to believe that technology starts at fire and ends in people turning into energy the interim would follow the exact same steps on every possible world. Chairman Shen-Ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye" ![]()
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