Comment Re:Sweet F A (Score 4, Interesting) 576
Just because the hypothetical aliens are ahead of us in some respects (e.g. the ability to practically travel across interstellar distances) it does not necessarily follow that they would be ahead of us in all others. For instance, consider Harry Turtledove's short story The Road Not Taken which is based around a premise that humanity overlooked a blindingly simple technique for manipulating gravity that put our technological development onto a completely different track than the invaders of the story.