Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed. Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have. George Alec Effinger
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If one human is driving a car and another human is driving a car, and they both have excellent engines, it does not mean that the second one is necessarily superior to the first one. In fact, the second one may have a lot of disadvantages. For example, it may be hard to drive. It may break down a lot or give out a lot.

Also, the second human may have been sitting in LA for so long that he has forgotten how to drive from New York. On the other hand, the second human might have been sitting in New York so long that he has forgotten how to drive from LA. In this case, however, the human sitting in LA might not have as good an engine as the engine in LA because he has never driven anything but a Trujillo since he left his village in New York many years ago.

Source: Live! From Planet Earth

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