There is no way we could reverse engineer their stuff. They simply teach us and show us how to get to the next step of technology the old fashion way, like teaching a child to ride a bike, they fall off until they fine tune their equilibrium. That’s why we have to test things over and over, before we get it right.

To test the reverse engineer thing try it yourself reversed engineer your television from scratch, make the resistors, capacitor, transistors, ICs picture tube. That should be simple for the average person.

And the average person is what our best scientists are when faced with alien technology; they understand nothing about it. Televisions have been around for more than fifty years, yet most people have no clue how they work. Make one from scratch? yeah!