Hawking Says Looking for Aliens Won't End Well

[acadia11]

Princeofdreams,

You are absolutely right, we are to primitive to be let loose. If anything we'd set about trying to conquer the universe if we had the technology. The worst part of our society is that many of it still think this is normal behaviour, our governmental systems, our economic systems, our philosophies are too dangerous and too primitive. You got people who think usury economically is normal, you got people who think hatred based on ethnicity is normal, I mean geez we can even agree on a simple thing like HealthCare, better yet, there are people who think that it's abnormal to even do so. NO, NO, NO we are not fit to be roaming the planets of our own devices. It's one thing to have personal conflict but we still conflict with individuals we don't even know as though that's normal behaviour.

 

[acadia11]

knightmike, why would they need to be green, they just need to have command of physics. Planets are great sources of metals and heavy elements, which would likely be a primary reason, to harvest them. But, the true, scary thing is that these beings may not be interested in our planets at all, but our Sun which is full of resources if you knew how to harvest it.

 

[acadia11]

After Aliens watched an episode of Jersey and the one who calls him self "the situation", plans for the complete eradication of the planet known by natives as "The Earth" were put into full throttle. Reports stated, the Aliens, perplexingly, did seem to be quite fond of Friends and were equally vexed by the ending of Sopranos as those native earthlings.

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-0+ .As in "Contact", they've been monitoring our radio and television broadcasts for years; that's why they've come... to shout "Turn that shit off!" and then cauterize the globe with nuclear fire. Like Ridley said "It's the only way we can be sure..."

 

[godnodog]

Vader to Hawking: "I find your lack of faith disturbing"

 

[acadia11]

I think people are looking at it wrong, of course, Aliens could get these resources from other planets. But you are looking at it like the Aliens would say oh wait there is life there, let's not take those resources, they might need them. If they were anything like us they would be indifferent to us one way or the other, therefore, the consequences of taking our resources or our planet simply would mean little to them. It's not that they have any particular animosity to us, it's simply we wouldn't matter and be in the way. Much like how one civilization conquers another, colonialism is prime example, it's not that Europeans were like oh we must destroy the native population, the native populations simply didn't matter to them, so the consequences of taking land and or even people didn't matter, it was more of a matter fact, they are in the way, and we are trying to conduct business. This is how aliens would view us, we'd be little more than , say the extra fish caught in drift nets that aren't part of the haul. We are simply collateral damage.

[citation][nom]RipperjackAU[/nom]Given the previous comments on this post about resources being everywhere, what else could an alien race want with humans... well, what did every other conquering army take first and foremost from an enslaved population?? THE WOMEN!!Once you go cro-man, you never go back! Sliders![/citation]

 

[tommysch]

Nuke em first, ask questions later.

 

[jitpublisher]

[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]Makes sense. I always wondered why would we actually be funding projects like SETI - given that if one day we actually got a response of some kind, would we even be prepared? It would be one interesting First Contact...[/citation]

That is what I wonder. By the time another race got our signal, we could be extinct for a million years. There very well could be another race that has also sent a message out, but it could take it 5 million years to get here! So, it all seems rather futile to me.

 

[Guest]

Think of any aliens with the mindset of Any imperial form of govt.
Or that they think that they have the better religion.
Or that for them, to get here they had to deplete their planet.
Not a good idea to invite them.

 

[isamuelson]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Screw Will Smith. Long before Will Smith, Rowdy Roddy Piper was kicking alien ass and not even bothering to take names [/citation]

I'm here to chew bubble gum and kick ass...

And I'm all out of bubble gum!

Classic! Love that line and that movie!

 

[caamsa]

First off Hawking is an alien. Second if aliens were that advanced to travel the universe then they most likely would have invented the holodeck and then gone into the holodeck never to come out, thus going extinct....and that is the end of your super advanced aliens.

 

[hang-the-9]

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.

Anyone that watches the Simpsons knows aliens can't be trusted, I hope Hawking gave credit to Homer for his insight.

Thanks for adding more things for me to worry about, skin cancer from being outdoors, getting fat from sitting indoors, picking the wrong color of towels for the bathroom and now possibly being eaten and/or enslaved by aliens. Oh and zombie pirates attacking the coasts, always gotta watch out for that.

 

[znegval]

I guess it kind of depends. If we're the first other intelligent species they met they might think it's an extraordinary thing and want to make peaceful contacts. Although if we did find some less technologically advanced alien civilization who happened to live in lets say, a highly gold, oxygen and oil rich planet, I can't really say we would be that understanding with them.

 

[sonofliberty08]

looks like is time to kill for Duke Nukem to shot the aliens pighead with his desert eagle ...... and do the repopulation with those hot babes ...... what a memories

 

[ksampanna]

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,"

And look where America is today ...

 

[jjesusfreak01]

Hawking is a publicity whore with theories that are interesting at best, complete BS at worst. I would say he should find something better to do, but he can't really, so I guess I can put up with him for a little while longer.

 

[anhxeom]

By the time the aliens arrived on Earth, they won't have to deal with the humans, by then Earth may already been taken over by the machines! That would make a good movie...Alien vs. Terminator vs. The Matrix

 

[crabsncancer]

[citation][nom]rmmil978[/nom]Actually, they might not be so violent. Perhaps the only way your society can ever get to the level of being able to develop interstellar technologies requires you to evolve past the basic instinct to blow the s*** out of each other.[/citation]

This is very true. The levels of energy needed to travel at interstellar speeds is phenomenal and if we were to do it, we would need the undivided cooperation of the world as a whole. I imagine it would be the same for the Aliens as well.

I believe once an Alien species has reached those levels of intelligence, they will have reached a peak of evolution that causes them to understand benevolence.

If you look at our human species, we are already showing signs of these things. Back in the days of Sparta, weak babys were thrown away. Today, we help and nurture children with deformities and retardation knowing that they could never fully integrate into society.

Stephen Hawking is looking at this from a mathematical and technical point of view but doesn't take into account the psychological and sociological evolution that needs to take place for a species to reach those points.

 

[blackpanther26]

no need to worry 2012 is near.

 

[ethanolson]

I've seen 'em. They look almost just like us, so no worries there.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]blackpanther26[/nom]no need to worry 2012 is near.[/citation]

Well a broken clock is still right twice a day- well once if it's 24 hour. Sooner or later somebody's going to accurately predict the end of the world. Too bad we won't know.