Hawking Says Looking for Aliens Won't End Well

[loomis86]

[citation][nom]ehanger[/nom]If there was intelligent life with technology that greatly surpassed ours then I think they would find us whether we liked it or not.[/citation]

sure eventually, but why broadcast our position?

 

[dreamphantom_1977]

Well, if you decide on taking Hawkings advice, then you probably need to know that the aliens are probably already on there way here. As we have been trying to contact them for decades now. It's ok though, because the world is supposed to end in 2012. LOL.

I'm gonna go poke my brain with a Q-tip now.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

We just need to give these aliens a virus. That's all. Jeff Goldblum said it.

 

[caamsa]

Well since speed of light travel is not possible and warping or worm holes or time travel is not possible we will probably never see an alien. Ever. Come on it has been over 15 billion years you would think that if time travel,worm holes etc. were possible they would have figured it out by now and been to visit us.

 

[decrypted]

[citation][nom]caamsa[/nom]Well since speed of light travel is not possible and warping or worm holes or time travel is not possible we will probably never see an alien. Ever. Come on it has been over 15 billion years you would think that if time travel,worm holes etc. were possible they would have figured it out by now and been to visit us.[/citation]

Our current understanding of physics prevents us from traveling faster than light, however even Einstein's Special Relativity does not rule out time travel or the formation of "worm holes". As you point out that for the 15 billion years we should have been visited by now, you may not understand fully how many stars are out there. Even if they were there from day one and visited one star every 24 hours over the 15 billion years, they still would only have visited a fraction of the stars, let alone all of the possible planets and moons orbiting it. Our Milkway, which is average in size, has roughly 100 billion stars, and it has been estimated there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. The odds of being found are closer to finding a specific grain of sand somewhere on our planet without telling you where to look.