Posted on 04/25/2010 9:53:47 AM PDT by Pontiac
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.
Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.
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.”
He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars, showing that planets are a common phenomenon.
Hawking’s belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as likely places to look.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Anybody who could transport a battle fleet between solar systems has the ability to travel faster than light and to build and operate a propulsion system that would generate more power in a second than has been generated in the complete history of the Earth.
They would also need to be able to turn pretty much anything into food and water, because even at the speed of light, they have to feed the entire battle fleet for four years if they’re coming from the nearest star.
“Believe me, you didn’t understand his book because you are incapable of thinking the way he does”
I think you are probably right. He loses me in the second chapter.
One idea that I came away with after reading the book is that maybe time is going backward rather than forward and the future is really the past.
It's not the mineral wealth they're after--we'll all become ja-faa!
Someone said (I dont know who it was) that either we are alone in the universe or we or not, and either concept is terrifying.
Just posted my first thread in a long time at CGP (formerly HCF).
Ahhh! That felt good.
ET Debate: To Speak or Not to Speak? By Lee Speigel
http://www.commongroundpolitics.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=722700
OK what is ja-faa?
Ever watch Stargate? The Ja-faa are hosts to the symbiote race that takes over the body.
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