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Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
Times OnLine ^ | April, 25, 2001 | Jonathan Leake

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Computers/Internet; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aliens; stephenhawking; ufos
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To: Pontiac; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
[ I think it is likely that some other planet developed intelligent life before Earth did. ]

If LIFE was a common thing that could be true.. But there is zero evidence of that.. LIFE could be extremely rare or non-existent except here on this planet.. Many of the TRUTH seekers(scientists) seem to conveniently overlook that, ok I'll say it, FACT...

After all science fiction MUST be logical.. or whats the point..
Science FACT need not be logical at all.. (i.e. nothing to prove).
What is.... IS... What ain't...... AIN'T...

Reality has no pressure to be logical to a human..
It seems logical that there could be life in many places in this vast Universe..
But that could be Utopian Obama-nomics..

81 posted on 04/25/2010 3:44:27 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Soothesayer

They purportedly are EXTREMELY fascinated with

and BUSY WITH DNA related projects . . . hybridizations.

Some say . . . to better infiltrate and control.

Some say . . . because their DNA has reached a dead end due extensive cloning etc.

Given all the smoke, mirrors and ulterior motives . . . I doubt any mortals know very much along those lines.


82 posted on 04/25/2010 3:45:37 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Soothesayer

I’ve read of no evidence that his mental capacities have diminished at all.


83 posted on 04/25/2010 3:46:56 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: decimon

Purportedly,

“talking”

is not that common around/with them.

Mind to mind communication is.

Or, is it spirit to spirit communication?

IIRC, there’s more than one report about a supposedly massive program to train US military personnel in such communciations for the not too distant future when the government KNOWS there will be absolutely no electricity based communications.

Military personnel are sought out with particular DNA markers that purportedly allow them to be skilled subjects in such training.

They are evidently given ultra high security clearances . . . possibly or probably implants . . . and taken to extremely secret underground bases or large ships and set in front of computer screens where they are then taught by ET’s to communicate ‘telepathically’ . . . or is it by a spiritual dimension?

As a Navy radioman, it was interesting to read of the project . . . a lot of the military communications involved were rather familiar in type and structure.


84 posted on 04/25/2010 3:52:14 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Moltke

No point in talking to aliens. No Hablan Inglés.


85 posted on 04/25/2010 3:52:17 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: hosepipe

Scripture says . . .

ALL CREATION

has evidently long been groaning, yearning eagerly, desperately, for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Evidently to help relieve said CREATION of the pollutions of satan and sin.

IF THIS IS THE BIRTH CENTER AND GRADUATION CENTER OF TRAINING SAID CHRISTIANS TO RULE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST,

WHY WOULDN’T a myriad of galactic clusters far and wide be interested in THAT project!

However, the best evidence is that ET’s are NOT distant planets’ citizens . . . but instead are fallen angels hell bent on perpetrating the greatest set of hoaxes on the END TIMES citizens ever concocted and millenia in preparation.


86 posted on 04/25/2010 3:55:24 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Pontiac

Some ET’s have purportedly shown humans vast rooms on large ships where meat is grown exactly like that. No suffering animals.

Evidently, we are getting close to doing that.


87 posted on 04/25/2010 3:56:28 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: terycarl; Pontiac

So how does that relate to space aliens? Are you implying that no aliens would be on welfare and that they are all hard working and willing to pick their own “lettuce”? I think that assumes a lot about the political leanings of a space alien.


88 posted on 04/25/2010 3:59:21 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Pontiac

Biological robotic critters have been frequently reported.


89 posted on 04/25/2010 4:00:51 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

As Stanton Friedman has humorously demonstrated,

Fermi was an idiot on such scores.


90 posted on 04/25/2010 4:02:49 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Gnomad

Certainly the oligarchic globalists, communists, socialists, facists

et al

ARE very much in cahoots with the critters toward establishing the satanic global government depicted in The Bible.


91 posted on 04/25/2010 4:04:00 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: NeverForgetBataan

Supposedly amonia vapors are deadly to one ‘race’ of ET’s.


92 posted on 04/25/2010 4:04:49 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

AGREED 100%, too.


93 posted on 04/25/2010 4:05:15 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
True.. this "earth thing" or human phase.. could be to qualify many to oversee the population of the Universe(future).. AND to dis-qualify others.. I'm thinking of the parable of the Talents.. plus a few others..

If a Human life does not qualify you for that, what could?..
Playing harps and singing kumbaya for eons seems to me to bit much..

94 posted on 04/25/2010 4:06:03 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Hardshell

Not near as full as that of so many naysayers on such threads.


95 posted on 04/25/2010 4:06:18 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: ASOC

Persistent reports are that there are

3-4 DIFFERENT means of overcoming that evidently silly ‘limit.’

One ET purportedly laughed out loud—a very rare occurance—when asked about the ‘impossibility’ of traveling faster than light.

The most often cited means is bending space-time such that the ends of the horseshoe are close together.


96 posted on 04/25/2010 4:10:19 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Scythian
IQ and Idiot are not mutually exclusive, let’s just leave it at that.

Naysaying, high IQ and utter, gaping, terminal cluelessness are not mutually exclusive. Let's just leave it at that.

97 posted on 04/25/2010 4:13:50 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: hosepipe

Well put.

Agree.

Thx.


98 posted on 04/25/2010 4:15:50 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Pontiac
I just don’t see the economic benefit in raiding Earth for mineral wealth.

Absolutely agree. Any race capable of interstellar travel would have little need for our resources.

However, I think it entirely possible that a species could develop an ideology or religion requiring them to exterminate all other intelligent life or even all other forms of life.

Think Nazism carried to the nth degree.

99 posted on 04/25/2010 4:40:24 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Scythian
You have not explained anything.

That's a foolish post that undermines whatever point you might be trying to make.

100 posted on 04/25/2010 6:22:02 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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