Put Jocelyn in the alpha position and you have
the makings of an advanced civilization.
Not exact matches
It is not necessary to give up the specialization
of functions that
makes advanced civilization possible.
The premise behind SETI, an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is that technologically
advanced civilizations want to
make their existence known to their less - capable kin (i.e. us) and go about it by producing signals that might be detected in the course
of our routine scientific observations.
I
made the case that pumping billions
of dollars into the development
of new drugs and
advanced medical technology is not the way to combat the chronic diseases
of civilization.
It is for further exploration
of our evolutionary cycle, as we
make contact with extraterrestrials who are in all probability more
advanced than our
civilization is.
As we learn, Wakanda appears to the outside world as an impoverished East African country, but in fact, its mountains are rich with a precious metal called vibranium,
making it the most technologically
advanced civilization of all time.
Civilization advances because
of educated people who create, design, build, engineer, idea -
make, invent and so much more.
Still the key point is there were several varieties
of human species — Neanderthals, Denisovans among us — in the world 100,000 years ago and it isn't at all clear that any
of the other species would have
made the
advance to a technological
civilization.
The reason that I went back to Mencius was that the world over, including the Chinese, finally dawned that the western modern science and technology had so over shadowed and skewed the picture
of civilization of Mankind that many
of the
advances of humanity were
made by other cultures and
civilizations were either ignored or misinterpreted.
It's also been supposed that the Fermi Paradox is answered by
advanced civilizations eventually
making their solar systems invisible to the outside by way
of Dyson Spheres.
Is a wonder we got here so far at this
advanced stage
of civilization, but the science is way ahead
of democratic processes, finding comfort in words rhetoric and irony and
making decisions from them.
If you assume that
civilizations at least as technologically
advanced as our own are abundant in the galaxy, and then start
making a list
of the pretty obvious reasons why we might not be able to detect their existence by any
of the means presently available to SETI research, it very quickly becomes a long list.