A civilization 500 years behind mankind

For humans 500 years ago, the strength of modern humans can be said to be the crushing level of existence, so if someone asks, if a civilization found in the solar system 500 years behind the human race, how should humans respond? I believe that many people first thought of the answer is to conquer, but think carefully you will realize that this is not feasible.

With modern human observation capabilities, if there were traces of civilization on Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, the planets near the Earth, then humans should have found them long ago, so if there is a civilization in the solar system, then the planet they are on should be farther away from the Earth.

Considering that giant planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which are farther away from Earth, do not have natural conditions suitable for life, the most likely planets in the solar system where civilizations exist should be the moons of these giant planets, for example, it is widely believed in the scientific community that life could exist on planets like Io and Titan, but of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the planets they live on are farther away from Earth Possibility.

So far, humans have personally landed on only one exoplanet, and that is the moon, which is only 380,000 kilometers from Earth, which is enough to show that human manned spaceflight capabilities are not as high as imagined, and with such a level, it is simply impossible for humans to personally land on these distant planets.

In addition, the natural environment on these distant planets is certainly very different from the Earth, not to mention that the surface of these planets because of the extremely low temperature away from the sun, for humans is a very serious test, for example, the average temperature of the surface of Titan can be as low as -179 ℃.

To take a step back, even if humans can barely go to these distant planets, they can not fight against the civilizations living here (if there are any), after all, they are "native" creatures and can be very well adapted to the natural environment here, and on these planets, how humans can survive for a long time is a huge problem.

In short, to the current level of human technology, even if civilization is found in the solar system 500 years behind the human race, humans are not able to land on their planet, let alone conquer it.

However, the resources in the solar system are limited, and if this civilization is allowed to develop, one day, they will clash with humans.

More importantly, since humans can find them, they will sooner or later also find humans, when they realize that there is a more powerful civilization in the solar system than their own, it is likely to feel a great threat and abandon all internal conflicts, and instead to develop technology, and trigger a "technological explosion", so that in a relatively short period. So that in a relatively short period to catch up with mankind, or even more than mankind, and then the human race will be seriously threatened.

Mankind will not allow this to happen, so how should mankind deal with it? The most direct way is to destroy this civilization before it develops, but for humans, extraterrestrial life is very rare, and extraterrestrial life with higher intelligence is very valuable research, so as a last resort, humans are unlikely to use this method.

Therefore, the best way to deal with this is that humans should try to maintain technological superiority and gradually control them in this way. In the face of a common threat, humans are likely to abandon all internal conflicts and instead devote themselves to developing technology, while at the same time, humans will also launch a large number of probes to the planet where this civilization is located, to monitor their development in real-time.

With the rapid development of human technology, the devices launched by humans will become more and more numerous, larger and more complex, and they will be distributed in large numbers over the orbit of the planet where this civilization is located, some of them can be used for long-term human presence, some can be used for all-round surveillance and information collection, and some carry powerful weapon systems.

After the conditions are ripe, human beings will begin to make formal contact with this civilization, and then control their development process through strong technological advantages and the deterrence of weapons systems, so that they can develop without threatening human beings, and as time passes, human beings can even assimilate this civilization and make it a part of their civilization.

However, this is only the case if everything goes well, knowing that it will take a long time for humans to be able to accomplish the above-mentioned goals, and in the process, humans will inevitably be discovered.

Because 500 years is not a big gap in terms of the development of civilization, there is a possibility of such a bad situation, that is: the civilization after the discovery of humans, because of the great threat from humans and triggered a "technological explosion", and before humans take full control of the situation, have enough to counteract human strength.

In this case, the "far away" human is likely to be at a disadvantage, so how should humans respond? The answer, of course, is to "make friends", since there is no way to control it, it is only to find ways to live in peace with them, after all, the solar system is so big, we can develop together is not impossible.

Of course, the premise of peaceful coexistence is that the two civilizations are evenly matched, in the subsequent development process, if one of them lags, it is likely to be suppressed by the other side, and it is conceivable that the human race will then be unprecedented unity, which is not a good thing for the development of human civilization.