why does everybody say if there are aliens from other planets that they would have superior intelligence?

Question

couldnt they have just found a better way to fly,, have a different metal or material to work with

Answer 1

It is likely that aliens would parallel us in intelligence and technology..
They could be more advanced technologically but not very much or we could be ahead of them.
It is likely that technological societies are very short lived,on the order of 500 years or less.
This may be the main reason we have never received a communication from them.
Though we have no proof of their existence there is little doubt that they exist.

Answer 2

If they had a better way to fly or better material that would be superior. We can't get far enough away to find aliens yet so if they could they'd had superior intelligence. But if they are just aliens stuck on their planet also than they wouldn't necessarily be superior. You'd have to see what they had accomplished.

Answer 3

properly, possibly. whether it would be a incredibly unsatisfying answer for theist and atheist alike, does not it? And do not something different than push the full Who Made What And Why? question back one small step to asking it approximately an alien quite than a (meant or certainly) god. How do all of us comprehend 'god' isn't a huge laptop? How do all of us comprehend 'god' isn't another creature dreaming us? and so on, and so on.

Answer 4

Most of the sun-like stars (in our galaxy at least) are about a billion years older than the sun. They are of the proper metallicity but slightly older. The odds are heavily in favor of ETI being millions of years ahead of us rather than behind us.

A million years of technology should be able to make ETI immortal and capable of sending robotic space craft to investigate nearby stars, at the very least.

The odds are pretty much zero that we would be within a couple of hundred years of each other technologically.

Answer 5

Because humans are generally afraid of the unknown and prone to be overdramatic in the face of it. A superintelligent alien race that wants to destroy us makes for a much better story than an alien race of slow-growing fungi that couldn't survive in our atmosphere does.

Answer 6

No, the answer lies in statistics. There must be so many other worlds with life then one of them is surely more intelligent than we are. This is not infallable logic, just an application of our understanding of mathematics. Using statistics vs examining individual circumstances leaves us at the mercy of numbers. i hope you never find yourself on the wrong side of those numbers. In other words, don't vote for Hillary.

Answer 7

Indeed, people make the mistake that having superior technology automatically means superior intelligence. Alien life would be, well, alien...that would include how they think and their ability to learn.

Intelligence is best defined as the inherent ability to learn....it's not what you know, it's how you know it.

Answer 8

Because on a cosmic scale, the human race has been "intelligent" for a very, very brief time. Consequently, anyone else who is around is likely to have been around longer than us, and consequently more advanced.

It's like this: if you are a baby, almost everyone is older than you.

Answer 9

Well you never asked everybody, because you didn't ask me. I don't think intelligent life exists outside our planet, just bacteria, the occasional plant, and maybe a fish...

Answer 10

Judging by the way we interact with each other here on earth, they'd have to be more intelligent.