What do you trade if Aliens are real?
Are you shorting Tech on the idea that w/e we have now is inferior to theirs?
Do you go long on War on the idea that we'll start fighting them?
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Perhaps more difficult, what do you trade if Aliens aren't real?
Are you shorting Tech on the idea that w/e we have now is inferior to theirs?
Do you go long on War on the idea that we'll start fighting them?
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Perhaps more difficult, what do you trade if Aliens aren't real?
If they aren’t, I dunno? Business as usual cause its already priced in.
Not very realistic, but interesting nonetheless.
Regarding the case for lowtech interstellar travellers: I can accept the idea that there is some symple physics trick to make a jump drive that we haven't discovered, fair enough. Just as in the story, there would also had to be a similar undiscovered trick for antigravity, since otherwise they have no way of getting to orbit.
Can you however build a ship that can resist vacuum and provide life support with 16th century tech? I guess perhaps your species might be able to live in vacuum, needs only a bit of heat and doesn't need to breathe gasses?
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Anyway, I’d like to recommend another book. High Crusade by Poul Anderson[0]. In the first chapter pacifist aliens land in 13th century England and get immediately massacred by the locals. Now the king has a starship.