@GodOfKnowledge That is not the point, that was an analogy. Also people are scared of the radioactive element, not of the way a nuclear reactor works (most of them don’t even know how it works).
Strange how humans gained fire mastery if ALL sapients think like that. Also, if that’s true then underwater sapients would never use it either, you didn’t think about this much, did you?
You don’t know the uses and utility of something you don’t encounter or know about either, yet you are telling me these underwater civs would know of fire and of it’s uses.
So… Until they become a terrestrial civ?
There is a quote above that phrase.
Not only is that meaningless, because if we did it that means others can do that, but fire hawks do that too.
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Prove it
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Prove that without the social environment they could develop massive factries.
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You havent proved that the waterproof spacesuits (because in function they are the same) are possible.
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Why would they take precautions when they never interacted with fire before?
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How would they try to make a small fire? Do you really think humans always knew how to start fires? They started out by taking fire from a fire started by natural means and then at one point in human history someone discovered how to start it yourself, now humans were CAPABLE of discovering how to do it themselves because they live on land, where there is no water to stop fire. Your underwater civ would have to create suits (extremely expensive), send people with the suits on land (in which each travel to land would be very short because of the physical limitations of the suits and oxygen), find fire (which is something not that hard if you are terrestrial, extremely hard if you are aquatic, unless you are telling me they send people on frail and expensive suits during storms), then find out a way to make fire on their own (which would be extremely hard, since their travels to land would be short and expensive).
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if they use easy to melt materials, then you can say goodbye to it when near fire, even a small piece not waterproofed can be fatal. Which would lead them to avoid fire (if they ever encounter it) as to not ruin their expensive suits and die.
Not only does your argument base on fire too (lol), since you are talking about how they would experiment with fire and how they would not be scared of it, but you also don’t have any proof for meaningfull technological advance without fire. (also, you are supposing that fire use is an arbitrary human trait.)
ing researched this for a good period of time. havent heard of any animal driven automations in a long time, and the few i have were failures.