[Alan_Dillman]

Our hands are like beaks to some hypothetical species, and it is hubris to assume we're great manipulators. Our fingers could be closer in utility to cow's hooves, than the manipulation techniques of some unknown species are to our own gesticulations.

And they would have tools as multipliers for their natures, just as we use tools to extend ours.

Our wonderful inventions might be another species child's play. Our herculean efforts to reach the stars might be a triviality to a species that can synthesize novel compounds in their bodies, and/or those of their stock animals. We're just at the early stages of doing that with algae, after a very long climb from first making fire.

Just as I could train and arrange to walk to Mexico, they might be able to self modify and reach the stars. No spaceship needed.

Our great ideas and dreams might be trite to bigger minds out in the galaxies. They could have easily skipped over what we struggle with.