How could aliens have the ability to destroy us if they didn&#x27;t have their own technological civilization?<p>Manufacturing spacecraft capable of traveling between the stars in any reasonable amount of time, if possible at all, would be an immense industrial undertaking, the pinnacle of not just scientific knowledge but societal complexity in order to coordinate the resources involved. Any alien race capable of doing these things must have also committed the sins that they&#x27;re smugly damning us for, and to a far greater degree than we have.