Stephen Hawking on aliens

[mada85]

The following article appears on the Times UK website today Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has come to a conclusion that echoes the Cs:

Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.

“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”

The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals — the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its history.

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He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. 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.”

He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

A: No. Here is something for you to digest: Why is it that your scientists
have overlooked the obvious when they insist that alien beings cannot
travel to earth from a distant system???
Q: And what is this obvious thing?
A: Even if speed of light travel, or "faster," were not possible, and it is, of
course, there is no reason why an alien race could not construct a space
"ark," living for many generations on it. They could travel great distances
through time and space, looking for a suitable world for conquest. Upon
finding such, they could then install this ark in a distant orbit, build bases
upon various solid planes in that solar system, and proceed to patiently
manipulate the chosen civilizations to develop a suitable technological
infrastructure. And then, after the instituting of a long, slow, and grand
mind programming project, simply step in and take it over once the
situation was suitable.
Q: Is this, in fact, what has happened, or is happening?
A: It could well be, and maybe now it is the time for you to learn about
the details.
Q: Well, would such a race be 3rd or 4th density in orientation?
A: Why not elements of both?

 

[Voyageur]

Thanks Endymion,

Yes indeed, it…

…didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.

:(

Hawking mathematically seems to conclude, as should anyone perhaps, that there would be a high ration of intergalactic Columbus’s floating around - Hyperdimensional Columbus ratios too.

Makes one feel but a galactic infant.

 

[Windmill knight]

In spite of the points he misses and considering the general lack of awareness of the general population on the subject, I think Hawking actually made more good than harm with his comments. It should be a matter of common sense that aliens are likely to be just as predatory as ourselves - yet most people insist in wishfully thinking that they are 'brothers'. Now if he could just accept that they are already here and come from a higher dimension...

 

[Noxulus]

It is an unfortunate that throughout history whenever two unique civilizations meet, the one of lesser technological advancement is either killed off or enslaved. In fact all of us today are the product of many generations of this mentality. Why would alien civilisations differ?