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.
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this is all based on his Godless political correctness
That is the only logical reason I can think of for an advanced alien race to invade Earth.
But I would think that their would be easier plants to invade.
If an alien race did decide to invade I doubt that we would ever know about it.
I would think that they would use a biological weapon to wipe us out prior to their ever landing on the
True
But Earth has had life for what? About 3 or 4 billion years.
I think it is likely that some other planet developed intelligent life before Earth did.
Considering the rapidity with which technological know how is advancing here, if intelligent life developed on another planet even only a million years before Earth think how much further along they would be.
Did you check that lottery ticket the liquor storekeeper gave you as a freebie for buying a whole case of wine?
Somebody had to win. Why not you?
We didn't know how delicious pineapples were until we "discovered" them. It could be they don't know about human tissue until they arrive and sample the local delicacies. And since they're already here, might as well round up a few million, process them into convenient nugget-size, and make a few trillion credits!
One thing I think that we have learned here in the US is that machines are cheaper than slaves (I at least have learned that machines are a whole lot easier to keep working than people).
“The only thing exceptional about this planet is DNA-based life.”
Who told you?
Obviously interstellar plundering for rocks doesn’t make any sense at all.
I am having a hard time coming up with any reasons for interstellar conflict. The only thing that I can come up with would be the transfer of knowledge and that doesn’t seem to be a source of conflict.
Or maybe they'll need to make room for an Interstellar Bypass... :)
I have one that they can have CHEAP;)
“Invasion to simply take over the planet for colonization is the only reason that would make sense.”
Maybe they’ll need to make our sun go nova to use the resulting shock wave to power their ships to other more lucrative destinations...
Probably not conflict with the aliens but their could be considerable conflict with ourselves.
Cultural changes would be inevitable after contact with a technologically advanced alien race.
Rapid cultural change always breeds discontent between those that embrace the changes and those that oppose the change.
Hawking has been watching “V.”
“One thing I think that we have learned here in the US is that machines are cheaper than slaves”
Really? So why don’t we have robots picking lettuce? And why do we have corporations lobbying for open borders? It’s a safe bet that space aliens also need people to to the jobs that aliens won’t do.
“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.”
What does this do to scientologists?
Before we worry about interacting with space aliens we should determine of such really exist. As Fermi said “Where are they?”
They could view us as a future threat or competitor and simply decide to neutralize said threat.
I have sometimes wondered if the entire communist/liberal/social movement is a stealth method of taking us out of the equation. The ET’s don’t have to get their tentacles dirty, they let us take ourselves back to the stone age.
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