I just don’t see the economic benefit in raiding Earth for mineral wealth.
Any aliens with the technology to raid Earth would have no need to.
But then again, they could have the motives of Democrats or muslims.
I’d be more concerned that they would find us delicious, tasting a little bit like their version of chicken!
Futher proof Hawking is an idiot.
Why would any species capable of interstellar travel want Earth as an energy resource? Some estimate that one would need AT LEAST 4.5 × 10^17 J of energy to accelerate to 1/10th the speed of light. There are far more efficient energy resources in the universe. If the aliens had some kind of super advanced wormhole tunneling or quantum transmission technology, what need would they have for a medium sized planet?
The only thing exceptional about this planet is DNA-based life. I find it far more likely that we would be a curiosity or simply ignored by an advanced alien race.
What if they’re looking to colonize?
Ha! Just try to get a word in edgewise.
Yeah, I seen it. There came that alien outta that there spaceship with nothing on but antennae. I said, “don’t look Ethel,” but it was too late, she’d already been turned into a turnip.
Life HAD to start some where FIRST... WHy not HERE?...
“I just don’t see the economic benefit in raiding Earth for mineral wealth.”
Maybe they don’t need minerals but they need slaves. Or maybe they just need a place to crash during their intergalactic journeys... It’s a little hard to predict what would be in the mind of someone born and raised at the center of a star. Hawking is probably correct though that humans shouldn’t assume that we’d want them over for dinner.
Aliens might want a planet with no life at all and incapable of supporting life - for the resources. They might want one with intelligent life for any of a number of reasons. Unless they are looking for a planet that has life but at a low level of mental development, listening to the liberal media will convince them to stay away.
... they want our women!
this is all based on his Godless political correctness
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.
Hawking has been watching “V.”
“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?”
Just introduce the Aliens to Whiskey.
It worked 150 years ago.
Agreed. 100%