>>1429
>is it normal for aliens to have gong?
The grey remote is a manifestation of a type of gong, so yes. I assume all alien technology like this at least relies on someone in their race having gong, at the very least they'd have a deity or ascended leader figure who has shared some original technology. It then works not because it's technology, but because it correctly channels the gong of the leader. Given enough time, you could probably build a rather advanced civilization based on the initial gong of a single person, compared to non space travelling races.

I think humans haven't been able to do this on earth because there are too many factions around, most technology isn't original human but alien, which is harder for us to internalize. It leads to the technology being suppressive, turning people into mere slaves to it with no ability to understand its intricacies. The only widespread original human technology would be what is passed down from ancient Egypt in the form of the bible. Try basing your spacecrafts and technology on that and see how well that works :P Unfortunately I think that was the only way, trying to take shortcuts only lead to "prison planet", should have accepted that it takes 1000s of years and just worked with what they had back then, maybe it would have been usable today.