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Originally Posted by Raellus
If the aliens don't seem to have basic technologies that we humans already have... I mean, they should at least have drones with thermal imagers. If they can build interstellar spacecraft, why are they walking around using nothing more advanced than their mk. 1 eyeballs to find these human guerilla fighters?
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There's no rule that all technology HAS to develop at the same rate everywhere.
Harry Turtledove wrote a great sci-fi story, "The road not taken." The Earth-invading aliens in there had a faster-than-light drive, but still used candles and matchlock muskets. Just a little thing that Newton could have invented, but just never thought of.
Then the landed in California, ca.1990, and got pwned....