Contents
1. Hawking's $100 Million Hunt For Intelligent Alien Life on Other Planets Louis Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt 2. Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life? Berntsen R. G. and Grøn Ø. G.
3. Risky Research: Why Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligences is Important And Dangerous Ruediger Vaas
4. Fear of Alien Civilizations, Terraforming and Panspermia Benoît E. Prieur
5. Strategies and Problems in the Search for Extraterrerstrial Intelligent Life A.D. Panov
6. Where To Look For Alien Civilizations Alexander Alexandrovich Antonov
7. Limiting and Cautionary Factors in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life John Cox
8. Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life and Interstellar Flight Vito Francesco Polcaro
9. Evolution and Alien Visitors From the Stars, R. Gabriel Joseph
10. Uninvited Guests, Peter Sturrock, Ph.D.,
12. Darwinism and Hawking's Aliens, Blair Csuti, Ph.D.,
13. Alien Conquistadors? Hawking is Right, Robert Ehrlich, Ph.D., 14. Hawking's Alien Invaders Might Be Microorganisms, B.G. Sidharth, Ph.D.
15. Alien Life and Quantum Consciousness, Randy D. Allen, Ph.D.,
16. Fear of Fanatics... Ruediger Vaas,
17. Are Intelligent Aliens a Threat to Humanity? Diseases From Space. C. N. Wickramasinghe, Ph.D.,
18. Aliens and Stephen Hawking: The Wisdom Principle. Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya.
19. Why Should Hawking's Aliens Wish To Destroy? GianCarlo Ghirardi, Ph.D.,
20. The Dangers of Anti-Science: Stephen Hawking’s Fear of Dangerous Aliens. Stephen Freeland, Ph.D.,
21. Who’s Afraid of Hawking’s Aliens? Arpita Roy, Ph.D., James D. Wells, Ph.D.,
22. Stephen Hawking Is Wrong. Earth Would Not Be A Target For Alien Conquest. Harold A. Geller, Ph.D.,
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Personally, I never understood the desire to look for extraterrestrial life. There is more than enough anecdotal, even genuine evidence of ETs within our midst. Despite certainly being aware of our desperation to making contact, they have studiously been avoided us. And that I believe considering the risks is a very good thing.
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So we want to find them without them finding us. I don't think it will work out that way. Best guess is Earth is marked on alien navigation maps as a no-fly zone due to dangerous inhabitants of that planet.
The only come here to dump their garbage.
Our galaxy is relatively new when compared to the universe.
Now imagine a planet with life 1 or 2 billions years more advanced than us.
If the above is true then it's going to be a very long time before they and us ever meet
There is no way to prove there is NOT intelligent life “out there.” This endeavor begs the question as to what constitutes “intelligent” life in the first place. The human experience of intelligence is so intangible as to defy science. We draw conclusions about intelligence solely on the basis of our own experience. It is rather a conundrum to possess intelligence on the one hand, while owning a strictly material view of origins and purpose. How is intelligence defined by science? Does there have to be a demonstration of cause and effect that meets or exceeds a specific quantity?
This is not something I laugh at, because it is of course rational to ask about and to seek life forms beyond what we know and experience. But I do question the audacity of assuming “other” intelligent life to be accessible on the basis of our own observational capabilities.
“A civilisation reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria,”
Ah sure, because we don’t eradicate bacteria casually, or harvest them for a great number of practical uses, right?
So surely an advanced civilization would never do something like that to us?
/sarc
Actually I think they will find nothing at all, but even if something IS out there, this is a really bad, emotionally driven idea.
Because the bible says they aren’t there. Those who don’t believe the bible really want to prove it wrong by finding aliens.
” - - which, presumably, rely on similar technologies as those of the present civilizations of Earth. “
“We also happen to be sociable creatures.”
I sincerely wish these people luck, and they have to start with some sort of plan, and I could probably not come up with a better one. But - -
They are looking for the paranormal, the mere definition of paranormal means what they are looking for is beyond scope of normal scientific understanding. It’s a shot in the dark as any ET out there may not be using the same technology and if they could pick up their signals may not have the ability to decipher it.
And are they sociable? That’s another assumption.
And who is to say they are not here right now, studying us. Do we even have the technology to detect them if they are here or have tried to communicate?
Or are they a lot like us, with a waring nature where we (people and nations in general) are continually trying to take over other lands, subjugate the natives, killing them off at will?
Finding ET’s could be a very good thing or the beginning of our end (life on earth as we know it).
Don’t tell anybody, but $100m is the same as $100,000.
I.e. peanuts.
The universe is big not only in space but in time. The human race has been around for less than the time span of an electronic flash. And it’s about to expire. There could be thousands of such flashes going off all the time, but the likelihood of two going off near enough to each other at the same “instant” are mind bogglingly low.
No, it would be much, much worse - for us. The technology necessary to travel interstellar distances reliably and safely is way, way beyond us right now. The difference between us and them would be far more than the difference between the Aztecs and the conquistadors.
It wouldn't be Spaniards vs. Aztecs, it would be much more like humans vs. cockroaches (and there are far fewer of us, and we don't breed like roaches - so it is worse, yet for us).
Hey Steve check out the episodes of Ancient Aliens on the HIstory Channel that are on about every time I turn on the set. Good stuff. Fact is they’re still here very likely checking you out.