Posted on 04/25/2010 11:08:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
British physicist Stephen Hawking, the brilliant man who wrote "A Brief History of Time," says aliens probably exist and frets that if they discover Earth their intentions might be less like the film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and more like the book, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." In the book, alien bureaucrats determine the Earth should be demolished to make way for space highway and blow the Earth up. Sorry. Nothing personal. Prepare to die.
It's not such a crazy thought, says Hawking, in a Discovery Channel series. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said.
Then, citing the example of Christopher Columbus' landing in the Americas and colonizing indigenous tribes, Hawking concluded efforts to contact alien races may well be "too risky."
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," he said. "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."
Sounds like the Vikings. Or Romans. Or, yes, Spaniards. [Read Hawking's biography.]
Meanwhile, enjoy this trailer from the "Hitchhiker's" film...
How long did it take for the light from those atomic explosions to reach these presupposed aliens? The maximum distance would be about 65 light years, wouldn't it? Yet you say that UFO sightings are date co-incident with our dropping the first atomic bombs on Japan. So your theory means that the "advanced civilization" must either have already been here, or relatively close by. But why would these supposed aliens have already been here, before the atomic bombs were dropped? What, they were listening to AM radio broadcasts? If they were already present when the bombs were dropped then those explosions have nothing to do with them supposedly being here.
Cordially,
Maybe mistrust was too harsh. Skepticism perhaps? A general show me before I believe? You have to admit the general psychology is sound. If you are skeptical about a general subject, and I play to that by making it seem like I’m hiding something when I’m really not, Basically I’m hiding in plain sight. And when I couple that with giving you something that fires the imagination, I’m giving you what you want to believe. When you think about it, it’s a mind screw twofer.
*Switching on Van Halen reverb*
You need to post some old school V pics :D
THANKS THANKS.
What I meant with those pictures is, this premise has been explored in the movie “District 9”.
My Stanton Friedman post speaks to the crashing issue.
That’s what Reagan’s STAR WARS weapons system was really about.
That is something I’ve considered myself. One way or another, something happened out there. You could be right. The whole thing could have been a black op to smoke out spies and it later became a cover for any and all deep black projects. Certainly plausible.
STEPHEN HAWKING SAYS ALIENS COULD BE AS BRUTAL AS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Another Western hating POS. Maybe they will be as brutal the Aztecs or maybe as brutal as so called ‘native Americans’ or maybe as brutal as African tribes or maybe as brutal Genghis Khan or maybe as brutal as...
Jeez. I’ll take the pulse plasma rifle in the 300 megawatt range. And silver bullets and garlic.
I've wondered for a while how much "cred" he really has among physicists.
THEY and we have lots of scifi high tech weapons that few know anything about.
Very well put.
Maybe talking to them isn't such a bad idea.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2500504/posts?page=7#7
Clinton: War In the Middle East, This Year, At Any Time
Al-Dar ^ | April 25, 2010
Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 2:50:49 AM by Strategy
According Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Dar: Diplomatic sources in Cairo told the newspaper that the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit and the Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz during a private meeting in the Nuclear Security summit last week, that the Israeli-Iranian armed race is accelerated towards a regional war in the Middle East, during this year, at any time.
Clinton warned both Egyptian and Saudi officials to take extra care and caution, and define their strategy to formulate the position of their countries in the event of such a war.
(Excerpt) Read more at roadstoiraq.com ...
That idea just no longer remotely fits all the known facts.
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