If Aliens Call, We Might Not Want To Answer, Says Stephen Hawking

huffingtonpost ^ | 23 Sept 2016 | Hillary Hanson

[DUMBGRUNT]

Listen up, NASA. Stephen Hawking has said it before and he’ll say it again: If extraterrestrials call, do not answer ― at least, not without careful consideration.

Well, we’re convinced. NASA, we really hope you’re listening.

[ConservaTeen]

They came to Washington, DC, but they couldn't find any intelligent life, only politicians, so they left think that there's no intelligent life on this planet.

They saw a picture of ZERO, so they thought nobody with intelligence would elect him for anything.

[freedumb2003]

Nah...

Flash! AH-ahhhhh!

[fireman15]

[jsanders2001]

< Duh, look what happened with Muslims.

Musims are the equivalent of Klingons sans technology though buddy Obie Wan Soetero is trying to change that

[Talisker]

The bad ones are already here. They’ve been here for a long time.

A long, long-long, long-long-long, long time.

[whodathunkit]

Well, that pretty well eliminates my answer which would have been ‘nobody here but us chickens’.

[Molon Labbie]

Agreed. If there are any advanced aliens out there, they have already mastered interstellar travel, have mastered age and disease, no need to eat and only interested in knowledge.

This hypothetical race probably destroys any other race that make a technological benchmark.

Or its just us.

[Garth Tater]

That guy is smarter than Hawking.

This guy is smarter than Hawking. Well at least smarter than the fake Hawking that replaced the original Hawking ~25 years ago.

Miles Mathis: Stephen Hawking - died and has been replaced

He's a classical portrait artist and a physicist of note. He does excellent photo analysis. Check out that article and take note of how Hawking's front, lower teeth which were decayed and ground down to nubs in the 1970's have been "regrown" by the 1990's.

Miles' science papers and articles at:

Miles' Science site

Lots of great art, history and political articles at:

Mile's Art, History and Political Commentary site

He's "too far out there" for most people - maybe even me and I'm pretty far out there myself LOL

[Darnright]

Somebody’s gotta post it (snicker)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

[Flick Lives]

“Dave’s not here, man!”

[phoneman08]

I have long thought that the reason we haven’t been able to detect intelligent life after 40+ years of SETI is the only aliens still alive have long ago figured out it’s not wise to announce their existence to the rest of the galaxy.

[Mouton]

Love that sign at some gym which said: when the aliens land, they will eat the fat ones first.

That aside, any being with the ability to roam around the galaxy at beyond light speed is not something we want visiting us. I just do not see any benefit from that, for us.

[MUDDOG]

This hypothetical race probably destroys any other race that make a technological benchmark.

I hope they at least have the decency to completely destroy the planet, and not leave it a smouldering ruin infested by cockroaches.

[snoringbear]

“I do not like this Hawkings guy, didn’t he also go to that island with the pervert Bill Clinton to have under age sex slave girls sit on his lap?”

I seriously doubt that Hawking is capable of doing anything very serious to underage or otherwise girls....

[Calvin Locke]

Arecibo was used to transmit a message to a star system 20K light years away when it was first put into operation.

The message lasted about 10 minutes. The project guy figured that was all the assembled people could take watching a dish broadcast radio waves. Sort of loses something not having any immediate indication of what's going on.

Probably ran out of booze, too.

[tumblindice]

I wish I was in Tijuana I'd eat Earthlings like BBQ iguana.

[Dr.Deth]

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Such a deep thinker

[onedoug]

Most, even many in physics, would not give this guy a second thought were it not for his crippling disease, which rather makes him seem cool.

[FrogMom]

Whatever the case, however, I agree with him on this.

Have you read The Forge of God by Greg Bear? The aliens are indeed hostile. One of my fave SciFi books.