A speculation unknown in American literature for about 80 years. You know, those weird magazines with the women abused by the evil aliens.. or perhaps the folks from Grovers Corners might have an addition to this bit of obvious insight.
I’ve come to believe that if aliens are indeed visiting Earth, they’re probably not the benign “space brothers” that some believe them to be. More likely, they’re more interested in humans as specimens and breeding units. Maybe even slaves.
I’ve never seen a UFO, but if one landed in my back yard and the operators asked if I’d like to take a ride, I think I’d politely decline.
If they asked me to “take me to your leader”, I’d be happy to point them to where Barack Obama lives.
It would be similar for Aliens ...we would rue the day they came, and they would be here to colonize us etc etc etc ....but hopefully in the long run things would be better.
Caveat: Things only become better in the long run if it is the same species ...i.e. white man colonizes brown man, etc etc etc. However, when it comes to dissimilar species then the same does NOT hold. E.g. it is not 'man colonizes Dodo, but rather Dodo goes dead-dead.'
Thus, since the aliens are definitely not homo sapiens, they may see us as some sort of lower lifeform, in which case we could face mass extermination.
I agree with S.H ...we should NOT be trying to contact aliens, because any alien form that can HEAR us and be able to COME to us will NOT be benevolent ....they are not making that huge journey for fun and kicks. It is not prudent.
Let alone other issues like disease and who knows what else!
One of the great Gikuyu seers is claimed to have warned the Kikuyu to be ware of 'people dressed in clothes like butterflies who would be riding on a long iron snake,' but that 'once they come after the pain listen to them and learn all that you can and you will do well.' Well, I think he would say' be careful of the THINGS flying in metal plates, for they will EAT YOU.'
More than I fear this alien... 
You mean aliens could be even WORSE than Democrats?
bflr
They would have been brutal by now, I should imagine. Assuming Louis Farrakhan’s Mother Wheel is out there, the White Devil would have been served on platters well done several years ago.
Amazingly, the Onion has revealed that Hawking is actually a hand-puppet that was infrequently used on Kukla, Fran and Ollie. PBS dusted him off and thought the wheelchair and artificial voice would make a good series. He’s do to be replaced by a Tickle Me Elmo puppet next year!
Women and minorities hurt most!
We need to develop alien-destroying weapons before they find us.
*Switching on Van Halen reverb*
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...
Maybe talking to them isn't such a bad idea.
Short minded thinking in science fiction - like how come all intelligent alien cultures are bi-peds and have body structures similar to ours? We are bound by what we know. Alien might be something we cannot conceive.
What an interesting commentary on Dr. Hawking’s worldview. Fear, evil, and selfishness sound like what he sees as the driving force of all life. Sad.
Hawking must be going senile.
I always thought that our efforts to broadcast info about ourselves into space was a little nuts.
We simply assumed advanced civilizations would treat us with respect.
But, as the history of the world shows, anytime a technologically advanced culture ran into an inferior one, the latter got nailed.
The whole meme about aliens being benign, a la ET, is simply a projection of our wishful thinking.