A passing thought on the nature of human beings. (56)

2 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-04-16 08:05 ID:DJTF1KI3

Do you mean same level of technology as it achieving the same ends, or as it being merely designed using the same techniques? Both would show an immense distinction in cultural, and consequently intellectual development. I could answer your question more precisely if this was clarified.

Example: A super strong and super weak race, both isolated, would take different approaches to harnessing technology for lifting things. The strong race may need only a see-saw type apparatus, which harnesses half their own bodily power, the other half of the work being done by the machinery itself. The weak race, being disparate in physical strength, may use a complex system of pulleys and levers to elevate an object of equal weight an equal height from the ground. Assuming they aren't of the same intelligence, both discoveries could have taken the same amount of time to accomplish.

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