Stephen Hawking warns we ‘should be wary of answering’ aliens

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Stephen Hawking warns we ‘should be wary of answering’ aliens
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First posted: Friday, September 23, 2016 01:47 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 23, 2016 03:13 PM EDT
Stephen Hawking's latest theories on outer space life forms sound like they’re straight out of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs.
The physicist and full-time genius says if we announce our presence to a much more technologically-savvy alien race, it could be the end of life as we know it.
The frightening claims were made on the 25-minute program Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places on CuriosityStream, an online video-on-demand platform.
"If intelligent life has evolved, we should be able to hear it," Hawking says, while hovering over the exoplanet in the animated U.S.S. Hawking. "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like this, but we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well."
It's not the first time Hawking has made statements to this effect. On Discovery Channel's 2010 documentary Stephen Hawking's Universe, he said the exact same thing.
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[Tecumsehsbones]

It's OK. We could always Terrexit.

 

[Cliffy]

An old medicine man once told me, "If you see an alien space craft, run like hell. We have no idea if they are benevolent or not."

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

An old medicine man once told me, "If you see an alien space craft, run like hell. We have no idea if they are benevolent or not."

I thought that was "sailing ship."

 

[Curious Cdn]

I thought that was "sailing ship."

Curiously, they are the same word in Navajo.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Curiously, they are the same word in Navajo.

Yeah, and it's the same word as "trouble."

 

[Johnnny]

Announce our presence? Please for a smart guy he is naive, because aliens who are technologically ahead of us already know we are here!!!

Think our Kepler telescope x1000.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I would like to know what the Beothuk word for "sailing ship" is but, .... you know ...

Announce our presence? Please for a smart guy he is naive, because aliens who are technologically ahead of us already know we are here!!!

Probably.

They're watching Elly Mae's critters swimming in the seement pond, fifty light years out.

 

[MHz]

An old medicine man once told me, "If you see an alien space craft, run like hell. We have no idea if they are benevolent or not."

Not true at all, even their prophecies speak of a 'judgement day'. That would apply to the Apollo crew more than beings from space.

Carl Sagon kind of blew that away when he sent a few probes out that have our exact location and some other tid-bits such as we have a big body and a small head (brain).

 

[Angstrom]

For a smart guy, He doesn't impress me at all. Consider that what we see in the night sky is the light from stars from many billion years ago. For all we know most of those stars are already dead. A message we receive today would have been sent many billions of years earlier.

Not bright at all. But at least he can spell right?

 

[MHz]

'Right' isn't such a difficullt word.

 

[Curious Cdn]

For a smart guy, He doesn't impress me at all. Consider that what we see in the night sky is the light from stars from many billion years ago. For all we know most of those stars are already dead. A message we receive today would have been sent many billions of years earlier.

Not bright at all. But at least he can spell right?

Well, Angsrom thinks that Steven Hawking is "not too bright"






Drinky-poo time.

 

[MHz]

Not to worry once you take the source into consideration. Steve has come out with some good stuff once he stopped being a globe trotter.

 

[Johnnny]

I would like to know what the Beothuk word for "sailing ship" is but, .... you know ...



Probably.

They're watching Elly Mae's critters swimming in the seement pond, fifty light years out.

Negative on the probably ghost rider.

Our main sequence star screams, "look at me"

 

[darkbeaver]

Thanks Steve.

 

[Cliffy]

Not true at all, even their prophecies speak of a 'judgement day'.

Not sure where you got that from. Haven't run across that "prophecy" before. Most talk about new beginnings and a return to a sacred attitude toward all life.

 

[MHz]

Here is one example.

 

[darkbeaver]

Aliens? Undocumented Aliens?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Aliens? Undocumented Aliens?

We'll build a wall out in the Kuiper Belt and make the Reptilians pay for it!

 

[Cliffy]

Here is one example.

Yes but it said the 5th world would begin. We are on the verge of a new paradigm and the old ways will become obsolete. That includes all the old religions that people still cling to, not just the Hopi.