Why do people assume that any other possible life in the universe is "advanced"?

Would it not be possible, theoretically, for there to be other civilizations in the universe, that are far LESS advanced than we? What if we are the most advanced beings in the universe, assuming there are others? Why do people always think that if there are extraterrestrials, that they would be far more advanced than we?
Why do people assume that any other possible life in the universe is %26quot;advanced%26quot;?
Good Q dan and with a lot of depth...


I feel for sure out-there will be MANY inhabited planets, some more and less advanced than us. Im a believer that the planets resources limit certain achievements??


Advancements...Yep maybe skipping through the solar system is easy for them and what we consider remedial things to us they%26#039;d struggle with??


I firmly believe that your governed by your planets resources...
Why do people assume that any other possible life in the universe is %26quot;advanced%26quot;?
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Reply:I don%26#039;t think they do. just the ones that would allegedly visit us, or be able to contact us.





i think actually that it is far less likely that civilizations would be more advanced than us, because when you get as smart as we are, you create technology and societal structure that eliminates the need for the specie to evolve to be smarter, and the society like ours seems to be doing, is likely to destroy itself.





i think alot would need to go right, for a specie to survive long enough with technology, to be able to surpass us by a large margin.





one thing i%26#039;m almost sure of though, they would almost certainly need to be more enlightened kind and peaceful than we are. they would not be malicious i don%26#039;t think such as movies like independence day portray.
Reply:I think maybe they are more advanced.. whatever life there is in the ever expanding universe, why would they want to pay a visit to say hi? As humans, and how we`ve distroyed so much, assumed superior than any other life on earth, . we dont have much to be proud of, do we? How advanced are we anyway?.. Is technology and weapons, war, famine, disease, concrete jungles.. using all natural resourses no matter what the cost..


I dont think we have anything any other life forms that are out there, would want.


Lets hope theyre not the Landlords of Planets, cos personally i somehow think we broke all our tenancy agreements to live on earth.
Reply:in most part people do not appreciate their current life, for it implied a lot of suffering...so they dream of another life more advance less primitive...Ultimately Life shows itself as we believe in it.Like a God...God will appear to you as you believe in Him. Speaking of different religions, citadels of all kind of related beliefs. All Divine principles based on that.
Reply:I don%26#039;t know where you get the idea that people think that? It is probably used in the context of life that visits our planet. Since we do not have the means to visit anything beyond the moon then we assume it would take a more advanced society to visit us. Scientists that thought there was life on Mars were looking for Algae not an advanced life form.





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Reply:It%26#039;s a matter of hope that they can teach us the technology %50 chance that they would be advanced and %50 chance that they will not also have you seen UFOs and secret files of aliens before? that also really shows evidence that aliens have more technology.
Reply:i think this is a really good point actually,i personally don%26#039;t believe in other lifeforms outside planet earth but if i were to be proved wrong i would definitely be bigging us humans up to be the most intelligent...
Reply:I agree with Hobbes in %26quot;Calvin and Hobbes%26quot; when he says %26quot;The most persuasive piece of evidence that there is intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet%26quot;!
Reply:Because for now, that we aren%26#039;t advanced enough for that, we could only know if there was extraterrestrial life if those other civilizations find us and not us finding them.
Reply:I reckon that there is an entire universe out there that is populated by Jade Goody%26#039;s!...married to builders with flags of St George draped all over their houses.





Call me optimistic!
Reply:have you seen GW Bush? And he is the most powerful man on the planet. With him as our yardstick anything else has to be an improvement
Reply:good question
Reply:I don%26#039;t. Other life could be nothing more than amoebas.