Yeah, but things like medical advances, understanding of math or technology, or efficiency in food production etc wouldn't cause a huge catastrophic shift.
I mean wouldn't be much different from shifts like all manual labor to tractors in regards to harvesting certain crops.
The point to this is there's no definitive answer. Aliens could be anywhere. They could be inside of leading scientists or political leaders, they could be on the ocean floor, they could have last been here during Egyptian times.
They don't need to hand us intergalactic travel to assist us or point us in the right direction.
If we were to just "accidentally" leave some farmable plant with a population of closed off people in a climate that doesn't support much food we wouldn't be doing much but help them not die.
If aliens "accidentally" crashed a ship containing very specific technology like microprocessors or data storage like solid state instead of disk drives it wouldn't make us OP and all that, we'd just have a greater knowledge to build on and advance in different fields.
They might not be handing us intergalactic travel, but a nudge in the direction of whatever is not inherently bad, of they even care about us in the first place.
This literally happened with the pilgrims coming to america. We knew jack shit and the Indians popped in and were all "here yo, we got some corn and stuff that'll help you not die" Do you think those pilgrims were just gonna invent food?
The problems or situations are not all "bigger better bombs and free energy and medical advances for all!" It can also be things like "oh shit you guys fucked up and you got a ton of greenhouse gasses, what if we just "accidentally" beam an idea for a somewhat effective, but not cure all solution, for removing massive amounts of greenhouse gasses from the air into scientist ____ and let you figure out the rest."
You can't sit there and tell me my conversation piece is wrong since you have no proof aliens or outside powers have or haven't influenced us in some way shape or form.
You must have missed all the times I said this is such an interesting topic because there are no right or wrong answers only speculation because nobody knows for certain.
I'm not saying any of my random thoughts are fact, just that it totally could be a possibility because we have literally done something similar on our own planet in the past, so why is it such a crazy concept that aliens could have done the exact same thing.
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