Stephen Hawking Warns Not To Contact ET!!! Danger Danger Danger!!!
By coffeegurl
@coffeegurl (1467)
United States
April 25, 2010 9:25pm CST
LONDON (AFP) – Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking warned Sunday.
"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," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports.
The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking.
The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States on Sunday.
On the probability of alien life existing, he says: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos.
Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilisations.
In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star -- in 2439.
But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years.
The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun.
Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100425/sc_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking
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@bird123 (10643)
• United States
26 Apr 10
Must the unknown always be evil?? Aliens who have the ability to travel light years would also carry a high intelligence. I know that will disappoint movie makers and book writers.They have probably already been to Earth. I wonder if they found intelligent life here.
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@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
16 May 10
I don't know about the credibility of this theory, but the aliens better not come down to Earth, that much I know. I've watched too many zombie and alien movies that I'm not a big fan of them aliens.
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
17 May 10
Roger That! Hide that foot locker of twinkies and snowballs from those commie aliens zombies from planet X
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
27 Apr 10
How surprising!That Stephen Hawking would issue such a scary warning, as if he was deliberately trying to scare people from contacting ET. Would someone please tell Steve, there will be no comparison (none at all) between the Aliens who travel the universe at Warp Speed, and the European Explorers who sailed the Atlantic in wooden ships via wind power! Imagine comparing the super intelligence of a Race, many thousands of years more advanced than Earthlings, to the Ignorant Religious Intolerance,Racism, Murder, and Greed expressed by the founders of the New World only a few hundred years in the past. Shame on you Stephen Hawking!
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
27 Apr 10
Maybe he watched that new Peter Jackson movie with the "9" in the title. can't member the name-but I don't watch those kind of movies. He must be getting foggy and soft in his old age.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
26 Apr 10
I personally think that any aliens advanced enough to get here will probably be civilized enough to hide themselves from the barbarians, which is us. The other scenario is that they are so shocked at our cruelty to each other that they just wipe us out without contact.
Either way, Dr. Hawking may be right. Unless we get our act together, I think they might be dangerous to contact. But I think they will ignore us, as we would the ants on the ground.
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
26 Apr 10
Wow Dragon, I need more coffee to process your thought provoking comment.
@cbjones (1147)
• United States
26 Apr 10
I forgot that program was supposed to air last night. Man, I hope Discovery shows it again sometime this week.
I find Mr. Hawking's view on this very interesting. I always figured that any being more advanced than man would realize the value of peace. At the same time I could understand the whole invade and concur angle. What if they spies living on Earth, and what if said spies went to see the movie District 9? Would you expect a peaceful vision from anything after seeing how a fictional alien race was treated in situation?
Anybody remember the final episode of ALF? The government got a hold of him, and probably conducted all sorts of experiments on the little fella. What if the aliens don't like Rock music that much? I always thoughts beaming some relaxing ambient tunes would bet much better results anyway. At least then they wouldn't have to both with translating words and such.
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
26 Apr 10
Maybe we should honor Brett Michaels and blast some "Poison" into space. After all, maybe the aliens have a cure for brain problems.
@merlinsorca (1118)
• United States
1 May 10
Well cbjones, what if they watched some re-runs of the first two Star Trek series? Those are some peaceful shows of humans and aliens. 
@shynepapin101 (1879)
• United Arab Emirates
26 Apr 10
wow, don't know what to do but to avoid contact like the man said...but if true it's going to be a great and giant leap for man towards understanding how GOD functions or what he has in mind, kind of predicting what GOD is about to do next...absurd, it'll never happen, that's why we use the saying Man proposes and GOD disposes.
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
26 Apr 10
Haven't heard that quote, but it is profound. You think the aliens thought the volcano in Iceland was one big signal fire? Holy...
@shynepapin101 (1879)
• United Arab Emirates
28 Apr 10
You didn't understand my response i said it's absurd, weird not thinkable and said if it's true it undermines GOD powers it will look like he read GOD's mind.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
27 Apr 10
i have talked with people on the internet, and some say that some people in europe have done research about aliens living on earth. i dont know where they get this from. but who knows. i wrote an article about it on allvoices if u want to check it out. but it is based on others research since i dont understand this stuff, anyway.
@merlinsorca (1118)
• United States
1 May 10
I disagree with him. Why should we compare aliens to us? "the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America." Right, but aliens are light-years away from us and they don't act like us at all. Compare humans to creatures from out own planet. We are so different, yet we are on the same planet. So, logically, any life from another planet should be so different that we won't be able to detect them.
http://xkcd.com/638/
It's a little comic about contact with other species. Christopher Columbus was one thing, he met other humans and humans are the same, same minds and thoughts. What about aliens? Do you think that they would have the simple and human thought of conquering other species? I believe that they have a much, much more complicated first-contact plans.
Stephen Hawking might be smart, but I can't say that I agree with him.
@climber7565 (2579)
• United States
26 Apr 10
OH yea another job justification and given the latest developments in the economic and political avenues here in US, the space race may very well be put to a break, let alone further contact attempts. Its not to say there is no chance some eccentric billionaire may just fund such new ventures or we still will do at the cost of us tax payers. The chances of those vehicles getting destroyed in space are great, due to meteors or some orbiting planet. We wasted billions of money on useless events like them, justifying meantime jobs and programs in US
@katumbal77 (29)
• Philippines
26 Apr 10
He does have an argument and a point. Come to think of it, Columbus actualy has no intention of harming the natives. It's just that by nature, people are usually afraid of something new. When we are afraid, we tend to be guarded and this may sometimes be interpreted as hostilities.
The idea of other life forms in universe as nomads seeking planets to destroy is also very much possible. Now aren't we glad we are not yet visited by these world destroyers.
A little more than a hundred years ago, flight was almost impossible. And a little more than 50 years ago, moon was almost unreachable. Who knows what we are going to see in the next few decades.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed and good luck.
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
26 Apr 10
Hells yeah! Hope the aliens don't think the volcano in Iceland is a signal fire!!!
@kenruno (35)
• Kenya
26 Apr 10
I'd rather meet this aliens than not.....When white people came to Africa, even though they conquered and colonized, they somehow changed Africa for the better.
