Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens
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Eanassir, you might be better off limiting your posts to the Spirituality and Philosophy Forum or the Fun & Jokes Forum as very little of what you post has anything to do with Science.
True, but most of humanity like you and I, still use our brains and are well aware of these things. I'm not suggesting to just go out and find the first galactic alien race we come across, pull our pants down, bend over and say "Probe Away." I'm just saying we shouldn't avoid contact or the universe around us our of mere fear of the unknown.
Pretty much... if they're aggressive, there's not much we can do either way... though we are good with our contagious viruses and illnesses. ;-)
But they will find us if they want to find us regardless.... it's not like we're going anywhere anytime soon on this big blue ball of life out in the open for all to see.
Perhaps that could happen, and it could occur the other way around too. We could shake hands and all of a sudden I impregnated the alien too.... we won't know unless we try, and we are a trial and error kind of people.
From what I read of his quotes was that chances are the aliens we will meet are going to be like Pirates of the old seas and we shouldn't be making contact period..... but being sure of who we're contacting and being careful who we call friends is kinda common sense and doesn't need a rocket scientist in a wheel chair to tell us that
I agree. And like I said, I think what Hawking was saying is that we should avoid contact until we know exactly what we are dealing with. It is not tough to imagine that an entire species could be wiped out.
And they may be better at it.
I said that a few posts back, yes.
Well, I don't care if they would be aliens or what. To me, life is life and their lives would be just as important as ours.
Perhaps he was only speaking as a man rather than a "rocket scientist" (which he isn't, BTW). Besides, scientists are allowed to speak good sense, too, however uncommon their opinions may be in comparison to the rest of us non-scientists.From what I read of his quotes was that chances are the aliens we will meet are going to be like Pirates of the old seas and we shouldn't be making contact period..... but being sure of who we're contacting and being careful who we call friends is kinda common sense and doesn't need a rocket scientist in a wheel chair to tell us that
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Eanassir's "philosophy" is his brand of spirituality and is irrelevant to this discussion because it's been shown that any of the science in it, is erroneous.
What Stephen Hawking actually said:
Professor Stephen Hawking says aliens almost certainly exist - but warns that contacting them could be a disastrous mistake.
Prof Hawking says that in a universe with 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars, it is unlikely that Earth is the only place where life has evolved.
"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said.
"The real challenge is working out what aliens might actually be like."
Prof Hawking says that they could be microbes - basic animals such as worms which have been on Earth for millions of years, but suggests that extraterrestrial life could develop much further.
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," he said.
UFO in youtube.com
"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."
The scientist, who is paralysed by motor neurone disease, warned that contact with alien life could spell disaster for the human race.
"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 American Indians."
Professor Stephen Hawking says aliens almost certainly exist - but warns that contacting them could be a disastrous mistake.
Prof Hawking says that in a universe with 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars, it is unlikely that Earth is the only place where life has evolved.
"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said.
"The real challenge is working out what aliens might actually be like."
Prof Hawking says that they could be microbes - basic animals such as worms which have been on Earth for millions of years, but suggests that extraterrestrial life could develop much further.
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," he said.
UFO in youtube.com
"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."
The scientist, who is paralysed by motor neurone disease, warned that contact with alien life could spell disaster for the human race.
"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 American Indians."
Always will be to you, maybe. From a different perspective than yours it is only fundamental physics and well known ordinary botany. If you can't understand the primate your talking to you should not insult your own intelligence by confusing spoken gibberish with gibberish heard, my tongue works fine your ears are defective. That won't make sense to you either.
:lol:I don't care how many times you flatter me, I won't go to bed with you.Always will be to you, maybe. From a different perspective than yours it is only fundamental physics and well known ordinary botany. If you can't understand the primate your talking to you should not insult your own intelligence by confusing spoken gibberish with gibberish heard, my tongue works fine your ears are defective. That won't make sense to you either.
"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 American Indians."
There are barriers that thwart premature interplanetary intercourse of the physical kind. As soon as a habitat like a planet starts making waves the keepers are on it like flies on a turd, bees on a flower. There's tests that any brights have to pass before the way things are will accomadate their presence I imagine. The planet idea contains the potential contagion until or if it's nice enough to swim in the deep end of the aether pool. Hawkings analogy of north america tried to provide the novelty alien encounter that history proves inexerably phoney, like the professor himself. That encounter was man on man an event we are most familiar with not least. You do see Hawkings deceit there don't you. A full 180 degrees of it. The deepest alien encounter we can have is and has always been here with us, the anti-human. Hawkings is an idiot, or would you deny the humanity of a mathmatishun.:lol:
There are barriers that thwart premature interplanetary intercourse of the physical kind. As soon as a habitat like a planet starts making waves the keepers are on it like flies on a turd, bees on a flower. There's tests that any brights have to pass before the way things are will accomadate their presence I imagine. The planet idea contains the potential contagion until or if it's nice enough to swim in the deep end of the aether pool. Hawkings analogy of north america tried to provide the novelty alien encounter that history proves inexerably phoney, like the professor himself. That encounter was man on man an event we are most familiar with not least. You do see Hawkings deceit there don't you. A full 180 degrees of it. The deepest alien encounter we can have is and has always been here with us, the anti-human. Hawkings is an idiot, or would you deny the humanity of a mathmatishun.:lol:
Don't make me resort to poetry and if that should fail, the other dark arts. There is a potion for everyone.;-)