“He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.””
It seems Hawking has mistaken watching recent Sci-Fi out of Hollywood for research.
These guys - Sagan, Hawking, they pull numbers out of their wazoo and then claim it is “rational” to be certain of something. As smart as some of these guys claim to be, none seem to want to admit that they have no idea if they are off by a factor of 10, 100, or 1,000,000++ with their mathematical estimates.
Then Hawking’s mathematical mind doesn’t address the impossibly vast distances and times that any intelligent aliens would have to conquer to even make us aware of them.
The mathematical fact is that even if you believe there are millions of intelligent alien civilizations out there, it is so highly unlikely that we’d even detect them, much less be visited by them - friendly or not.
I’m surprised otherwise rational folks can even pretend to be be serious about this topic.
Obviously,
because we’re exceedingly better informed via very high quality sources, than you seem to be.
The mathematical fact is that even if you believe there are millions of intelligent alien civilizations out there, it is so highly unlikely that we’d even detect them, much less be visited by them - friendly or not.
Well, even "that" -- that millions of other intelligent anlien civilizations exist out there is based on a fallacy. No matter what kind of "numbers" you put in a "formula" that someone created out of their head (and a formula that has no bearing in "reality") -- you still have this idea that life springs from nothing and it "advances" into more and more complex kinds and mutations and further "improvements" and so on.
This is just the "Theory of Evolution" (which is a false theory) applied to things outside of this planet and in the cosmos.
It doesn't happen here on earth and it doesn't happen out in the cosmos either... LOL ...
God, in the Bible has told us of the existence of other "aliens" -- and they're described as angels (and there are different types and classes of angels) -- all of whome have been created directly by the hand of God, and they were not designed by God for having families and "living and dying" (as in "another civilization" doncha know ...). The angels live forever, God says they are not for having families and any "civilization" that they have centers either around "God" Himself (for the angels that did not fal) and the others, their existence centers around "Satan" (as they are the fallen angels who rebelled).
That's what the Bible tells us, anyway... :-)
“Then Hawking’s mathematical mind doesn’t address the impossibly vast distances and times that any intelligent aliens would have to conquer to even make us aware of them.” Um, you might want to pay closer attention to what Hawking is presenting through his new Discover Channel progam. In discussing worm holes and black holes and time travel, Stephen addresses these issues from the only perspective he can afford to entertain, fromt he extreme vast ‘linear time’ distances between points in the universe where intelligent life and technologies may arise.