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 Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:26 pm
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.
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:09 pm
Hehehe, I saw that on yahoo.com too... he has a point though.
Advanced Aliens would be the Europeans... while we would be the Native Americas. However both sides would get diseases, this would lead to billions of death for humans if left unchecked. The aliens on the other hand... they're in a ship that can be quarantined from there homeworld or colonies. So we can easily be screwed over big time.
It all depends though mainly on if they had peaceful, hostile, or neutral intentions...
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:41 pm
Which is never known till the end as evident of our earlier times. And if we can do it, anything can.
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 4:42 pm
Let's bare in mind that fact that we're the human race. If aliens show up, I think it's far more likely that our world leaders will mount a defense attack first and work towards diplomacy later. It's sad, but that seems to be how the human species does things.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:42 pm
I think it was said best in an old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
Personally though, I think extra terrestrials do try to contact us...we just dont know how to pay attention or listen.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:56 pm
Might end up like that animated movie Terra. We might end up going to them.
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:22 pm
I'm still stuck on the idea that there aren't any serious headlines about E.T.s out there. Sure they're in the tabloids all the time, but no credible scientific journals that get any kind of attention. wouldn't there be a LOT more evidence if they did exist? Wouldn't there be some kind of contact if they were living within the same galaxy?
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:40 pm
niteprincess I'm still stuck on the idea that there aren't any serious headlines about E.T.s out there. Sure they're in the tabloids all the time, but no credible scientific journals that get any kind of attention. wouldn't there be a LOT more evidence if they did exist? Wouldn't there be some kind of contact if they were living within the same galaxy? it happens all the time, it's just all covered up. also, the media works with the elite, so they don't talk about those types of stories very often. they just don't want us to know... yet.
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:17 pm
TrutherMei niteprincess I'm still stuck on the idea that there aren't any serious headlines about E.T.s out there. Sure they're in the tabloids all the time, but no credible scientific journals that get any kind of attention. wouldn't there be a LOT more evidence if they did exist? Wouldn't there be some kind of contact if they were living within the same galaxy? it happens all the time, it's just all covered up. also, the media works with the elite, so they don't talk about those types of stories very often. they just don't want us to know... yet. Indeed true. People like the FBI and CIA or whatever they're called always appear right when the investigating person gets too close.
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:39 pm
Fear me, love me, do as I say.......On the subject of aliens, which I undoubtedly believe in as the entire universe is far too large for just a single conceited group, I believe that they remain out of contact and that we have no sure knowledge of them because of Adam and Eve's sin. In the bible it stated that from that sin we are alienated from everything else. Because humans have failed we probably won't be in contact with the other planets until we have redeemed ourselves. And I will be your slave........
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