[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Taera:
makes me think and i agree with you desdinova. if aliens could have avoided the genetical will of people to spit into their neighbour's soup (quote from somewhere) - or put his head on lance, if its Dark Age - their advancements could have went much faster and in a way different way. (yea right)

Nah, I don't think they would had advanced at all without wars. If you look into our history you'll see that the ALL tech advancements have been fueled, inspired, financed, impulsed, pushed, used by the military.
Tech never advanced as fast as in WW2, and after that the cold war gave us from the Space shuttle to the CD player going through microwave technology and stealth composite materials.

A civilization without wars wouldn't have gone farther than collecting fruits form wild trees.
That's why I'm convinced that if there is an alien civilization, and if they actualy make it here, its not gonna be pretty.