Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life

The Washington Post's Speaking of Science ^ | July 20, 2015 | Rachel Feltman

[editor-surveyor]

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His “conceptions” and theories are pure nonsense to anyone that understands God’s word.

A life totally without purpose.
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[editor-surveyor]

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It is your job from the day you were born to get aware.
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[5thGenTexan]

A single cell ameba, if found on another body, will be a precious creature to people that think a human unborn baby is not.

[LoneStar42]

Could have done it for far less: one round-trip ticket to the Peoples Republic of Austin, TX.

[DouglasKC]

"We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth," Hawking said at Monday's news conference, "So in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life."

Yeah, life came from NOT life. What a quaint 19th century view.....try replicating THAT in a lab. Never can, never will.

[The_Reader_David]

Hawking is either being misquoted or has finally gone senile. He of all people should know that the universe is *not* infinite.

And, very, very large, though the universe is, with a very, very large number of particles in it, the total volume of the observable universe in cubic Planck units (the smallest physically meaningful volume, many times smaller than any subatomic particle) is tiny compared with the numbers involved in finite Ramsey theory that necessitate the existence of large ordered sub-systems simply on the basis of the size of the overall system (look up Graham’s number and the definition of Knuth’s arrow notation). Heck, even the hypervolume of the observable universe from the big bang to the present in cubic Planck units by light-Planck-units is tiny compared to Graham’s number.

[Pelham]

"In fact, if we did indeed come to be by chance, then in an infinite universe there would necessarily be infinite instances of life."

Olber's Paradox, the "dark night sky paradox", argues against an infinite universe.

[Jack Hammer]

Check the White House.

Now where’s my 100 million???

[SunkenCiv]

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[Krosan]

This seems like an unwise use of money. They haven’t even built flying cars yet and are spending all this effort in finding aliens!

[Krosan]

... or at least invent laser guns first!