Originally Posted by
Alaistier
What's to say they're so much more advanced that us? We might be closer to long distance interplanetary travel then it seems.
True, but even if we are a day away from inventing it, they would still be more advanced, since they would have not only a working vessel, but also have travelled a long distance.
I would expect they would be 'differently' advanced, similarly to Hitch Hikers Guide; "The Jatravartids are also unique because they were the first people in Universe who invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel."
They face different problems, and come up with different solutions.
I expect we would both have some advances above each other.