Earth vs. Goa'uld tech.

[aschen]

I'm socialist at nature. Everyone working for the better of all. But you damned humans are so greedy and selfish. I wish I was like...a hamster or something.

[VirtualCLD]

LOL Hamster Nation! Before we know it, hamsters will far surpass human technology.

[aschen]

They already surpass us everywhere else!

"The concept of humanity is but another testament that mankind will only achieve the bare minimum for himself."

[thirdeyeblind105]

First off, pure capitalism without regulations is absolutely terrible, but the mix of capitalism with a little bit of socialism works as good or if not better than any other system of economics. Bottom line, people need incentive to make better products, so how is capitalism not good for advances? Just look at the new space race going on here.

Secondly, it's difficult to make comparisons between Tollan, Aschen and us. We don't know how much more advanced they are than the goa'uld, so while they may be about 800 years ahead of us, they could easily be 500 years more advanced than the goa'uld. And it's also difficult to say how fast they advanced technologically. There are a lot of people here on earth, most likely more than on any other planet, which means we theoretically have the edge as far as technoloigical growth (more people=more circulation of ideas+more progress).

[aschen]

Yeah but people in this country don't invent things to help others- they do it to make money!

[VirtualCLD]

First off, pure capitalism without regulations is absolutely terrible, but the mix of capitalism with a little bit of socialism works as good or if not better than any other system of economics. Bottom line, people need incentive to make better products, so how is capitalism not good for advances? Just look at the new space race going on here.

I agree completely.

[thirdeyeblind105]

Yeah but people in this country don't invent things to help others- they do it to make money!

How does this affect things? Progress is still progress. Do you think the lightbulb, automobile, or any other recent revolutionary invention has been for helping people? Money gives people incentive, and if they help people along the way that's just and added bonus.

[Joe Chen]

I'll just toss in my 2 cents on this.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Going under the original posed question, if we don't need to develop technology to fight the Goa'uld, we wouldn't know what direction to focus our military tech advances. If we don't find/use the gate, we wouldn't know what we'd need, we wouldn't encounter the items that jumps our tech level as we adapt weapons to our use, develop things by reverse engineering, etc.

Also under the original posed question, if we don't go out there and kick Gou'ald butts, Ra would still be alive, Anubis would still be conquering everyone, so since they're continuing to evolve their tech, I doubt we'd catch up without major quantum leaps of directed military tech advances.

-Joe

[Anubis]

Also under the original posed question, if we don't go out there and kick Gou'ald butts, Ra would still be alive, Anubis would still be conquering everyone, so since they're continuing to evolve their tech, I doubt we'd catch up without major quantum leaps of directed military tech advances.

-Joe

I agree with your comments. Ra would still be hurting the people of Abydos and Anubis would still be gathering powerful technology. We really do need to watch out for whatevr we can get!

[Iki-Ryo]

At the begining of the 20th century, electricity and indoor plumbig was a rare thing to find in a home, 104 years later the entire landscape of technology has chanded so much that most people that are old enough to remember being blown away at the first automobile struggle to comprehend modern telephones. If you really want to grasp how much we have advanced talk to someone over 70 years old (whos mind is still sharp) Technolody has grown exponentialy, each new new invention improves hundreds of existing technology and directly leads to the discovery of hundreds of new technologies. Communication technology has provided for greater and faster exchange of ideas and thus made a fertile enviromentfor advance ment.
People would argu what the ture basis of our technology is, i poersonaly think it is computers and look how far they have come in just the last 10 years alone, and they are only getting faster, stronger, and its happening quicker now than ever before. most technologies follow the pace set by computer technology.
Our technological advancement has not slowed, it only gains momentum every year. In 100 years we went from horse drawn carts to land vehicles capable of going 763.055mph and air craft capable of goingnearly 4 times the speed of sound, and space craft capable of going 25 times the speed of sound. If this trend continues, wich i find it hard to beleive it wont, i believe ftl travle in the next century is more that likely.

but im just a geek

[Anubis]

You ar right. Computers 10 years back were very large. Everything is now made involving computers, well most things they simply can't be avoided.

For example, look how sleek Apple technology is!

[Torley]

Technology moves fast, but not fast enough: often, when something is developed, it takes a considerable amount of time to phase it out due to $$$ and people just starting to get used to the "old" thing, and soforth. An example of this would be the desktop metaphor used on almost all computer operating systems (apart from Command Line Interfaces). It is getting dated and limits our ability to work in a more efficient way, but it is comfortable to us since we are used to it.

Goa'uld are master scavengers and killers, not a civilization of Einsteins and Edisons! What they got, they likely stole. I don't know how good they are at reverse-engineering, but assuming Ha'tak ships for one have kept the same form and functions (roughly) for about a few thousand years... that's a LONG time.

[cobraR478]

I doubt the Goa'uld have advanced much, if at all, since they came into power. They haven't needed to until now. The only civilization that could have challanged them they have a treaty with. Unfortunately for them, Earth rocks

[Anubis]

Yeah, the Gou'ald are still where they were 7 years back

[Torley]

Yeah, save a few advances like Anubis' Ancients leaps and bounds. Apart from that, they should kidnap a planet full of inventors. I wonder what evil-Harlan from an alt-universe could have done for them?