Aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans: Hawking - Yahoo! News
Thoughts? Questions? I for one think......
Thoughts? Questions? I for one think......
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Uh, just because Hawking thinks aliens might exist doesn't mean that aliens do or don't exist more or less so now that he's opened his mouth.
Sure they might exist. Sure, they might not. We haven't found any yet.
Am I missing something?
The question of whether contact with alien life would be helpful or harmful to humanity sounds like a pretty interesting one to me.Am I missing something?
Am I the only one that noticed this pun? Was it intentional?I believe it's likely they exist. But the chances of encountering them in any imaginable timeframe are astronomically small.
krexia said:The question of whether contact with alien life would be helpful or harmful to humanity sounds like a pretty interesting one to me.
I'd like to think that any species that advanced would have basic respect for other forms of sentient life, but that's pretty wishful thinking. I mean we like to think of ourselves as pretty civilised these days, but if we suddenly discovered tomorrow that under the ice on Antarctica was a secret primitive culture sitting on massive reserves of oil, how civilised would we really be?
That is indeed an interesting topic, but I suppose I was referring to the idea of aliens existing or not, which is kind of a pointless thing to discuss since we don't know either way.
But if they did, I could see extra-terrestrials as not giving a damn about us if we have resources they want. Assuming they are even intelligent enough to get over here and find us, because we're certainly not intelligent enough to find them.
∞;5012961 said:Am I the only one that noticed this pun? Was it intentional?
My thoughts exactly on the subject. Although I would think beings who have mastered space travel would be less.......aggressive?
Yes he has. I think he'd be the first to run of in the event of an alien visit (regardless of intent). If he could still run that is. s1gildragonin30years (dear god I'm horrible)Hasn't Hawkings always had the "bad aliens" viewpoint? I remember him saying the same thing years ago.
You're basing that on the theory that as a people becomes technically more advanced, they also become more benevolent, right?
I'm usually inclined to agree with that, but think about it this way. We're talking about aliens here. Beings who are (unless certain theories turn out to be correct) completely different from us in every way. There's no reason to assume that whatever goes for us, goes for them.
If they can travel distances in the tens of light-years in such a way that is practical for them, they won't be doing anal probing. Probably inject us with nanomachines that would get a much more thorough analysis done and wouldn't hurt us at all.I shutter to think what advanced lifeforms would do to us. Anal probing and what not *shivers.*
As far as Earth creatures go, there is at least one that can survive in a vacuum, as well as around eighteen thousand times the cosmic radiation levels that exist at the edge of the atmosphere.Their intelligence isn't guaranteed as well, as there may be a creature capable of surviving the vacuum of space (we just haven't seen it yet due to how far away it may be).
∞;5013501 said:As far as Earth creatures go, there is at least one that can survive in a vacuum, as well as around eighteen thousand times the cosmic radiation levels that exist at the edge of the atmosphere.