Timeline for Can the number of letters in alphabet suggest how advanced civilization is?
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| Feb 3, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | edgerunner | I think it may be wrong to assume that if a message arrives in radio frequencies, the sender must have radio technology. Maybe they just happen to have naturally evolved capability for radio communication just as we have it for sound waves in air. The same goes for any spectrum and medium you can think of. Maybe that primitive looking smoke signal has high density data in it, and you can read it only by deciphering the complex molecules (assembled by nano-machines) in it with spectral analysis spanning the UVB to X-RAY range. | |
| Feb 3, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | @lsrom From that description, that civilization is on the lowest rank of any sensible scale: They don't understand the tech, they just use it like magic rings. It only takes a few individuals that actually understand what they are doing, and they will come up with improvements. Your civilizations seems to lack all of these individuals, and thus cannot develop in any way. | |
| Feb 3, 2019 at 11:55 | comment | added | lsrom | Thank you, your answer is great and generally correct but in my specific use case I can't judge the civilization in question by normal means like Kardashev scale. This civilization possesses extremely little if any of own technology and everything they use they stole from other civilizations and once they got some technology they generally don't bother replacing it. For example let's say they stole our computer tech in 1990 and then some advanced hyperdrive, they would use 1990 like computers to control this hyperdrive. | |
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| Feb 3, 2019 at 9:13 | history | answered | blahblah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |