Posted on 09/24/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Listen up, NASA. Stephen Hawking has said it before and he’ll say it again: If extraterrestrials call, do not answer ― at least, not without careful consideration.
Well, we’re convinced. NASA, we really hope you’re listening.
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“The aliens will not be fooled. They have been watching our TV broadcasts of I love Lucy for years”
There are no aliens, but there are demons.
I used to think that, if invited, I’d be thrilled to accept a ride in a flying saucer.
Funny how age has a tendency to cure one of such youthful foolishness.
I agree with Hawking on this. Less advanced cultures usually get the raw end of the deal, when coming into contact with more advanced cultures. Sometimes they even get exterminated.
Okay ...
So the smartest man on earth recommends that aliens be thoroughly vetted extreme vetting! There you have it folks. Hawkins has endorsed Trump!
Alien lives matter. Why shouldn’t they get a better planet if theirs sucks?
“The natural progression of evolution is from biological to cyborg. Once biological life gets smart enough, it builds cyborgs who are so superior to them, the cyborgs take over and dispense with the biological life.”
I recently read an article about that very subject. The article posited that by 2050 we’ll have humanoid robots that are so lifelike and physically able, you won’t be able to tell them apart from biological humans.
In addition, the author postulates that they’ll run on artificial intelligence that, by that time, will be more advanced than human intelligence.
He went on to plead with lawmakers and robotics manufacturers to build in aoutomatic controls, to prevent this new race of cyborgs/androids from destroying humankind.
These advances are coming, and we’re going to have to deal with the consequences.
Be careful if they call themselves “Klingons” or “Romulans.”
And if they’re “Kanamits” run like h*ll.
Ack ack accck aaack
“What will we do when they come and knock on our front door,so to speak?”
Tell them you stink, you’re no good at simple labor, and you taste funny.
Have you read the third book?
That has also been a sci-fi theme for years (Battlestar Galactica, SkyNet).
The first scientist I saw to suggest it was Richard Dawkins in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986, revised 1996). He brought it up in the context of, why do we see no intermediate life form that used something simpler than DNA and RNA? Those are very complex molecules, and they couldn't have sprung up from nothing.
So he suggested, maybe whatever came before just got out-competed for survival by the far more advanced DNA life forms, and he drew the analogy to cyborgs taking over from their human predecessors and wiping out all traces of the humans.
Shoot, the ‘cyborgs take over and dispense with humans’ theme is much older than the 80s.
I well remember a series of comics from the sixties where robots had reached such a point of sophistication that they were in a war against their human creators.
I believe Asimov’s “I Robot” was also published in that decade. I’m sure other authors penned even earlier works on the topic.
I expect to be around until about 2040, so I’m sure I’ll witness the beginning stages of android/cyborg development.
“Are you troubled by calls from the Midlothian Planetary
Revenue?”
Please don’t let them locate the galactic IRS in Texas. Midlothian isn’t that far from me.
You never hears the stories about the 'probes'?
The advanced lifeform used a rotary dial?
#10 I noticed 2 things about the photo.
The lady’s curves and that James T. Kirk is kinda fat.
“You never hears the stories about the ‘probes’?”
Remember I mentioned that older and wiser thing? Heh...
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