Stephen Hawking: Aliens exist but don't talk to them -- it's too dange

[captain53]

Holy Cow - how far out is this?:tf:tf:tf

From The Sunday Times April 25, 2010

Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece

[Emjaysmash]

lol. Interesting. I'd like to watch his show, even if I can't talk to the aliens

[RGD.]

He does have a valid point. Historically speaking the more advanced/powerful have always taken the resources of the weaker. Be it human or material resources.
In our 50+ years of space flight we have managed to send men to our moon and probes past our planets. Another life form that would have the technology to visit us would therefore be the more advanced/powerful and therefore able to take what ever resource they please if they desired.
And to think that we are the only life forms is naive. Even if the number of less than 1% is used to calculate - they do exist somewhere. Maybe though we are the more advanced - who knows.


Ron

[replicant_argent]

Maybe though we are the more advanced - who knows.


Ron

Spent any time at www.peopleofwalmart.com lately Ron? you may want to rethink that.

[wolfandwhisky]

so if you were the writer of "Independece Day," are you thinking "holy sh!t, I'm as smart as Hawking, and I put this theory out there years earlier!"

[GoatLocker]

If you look at the way we treat species "lower" than us (we eat them, experiment on them, keep them as pets, exterminate them as pests, etc.), he has a good point.

[1badhog07]

Another wack job..

[markem]

*I* talk to aliens. Heck, I'll talk to illegal aliens.

[mosesbotbol]

Sounds very reasonable imperical thought.

[sikk50]

I hope aliens like cigars

[BigFrank]

Looks like a good series. I too also hope they enjoy tobacco, maybe I can barter myself some cool stuff.

[chachee52]

I've been saying that there's got to be other life forms out there for years, how come no one pays me millions to say it on a TV show? O'well, I'll just go back to work tomorrow and make nothing.

[Emjaysmash]

I've been saying that there's got to be other life forms out there for years, how come no one pays me millions to say it on a TV show? O'well, I'll just go back to work tomorrow and make nothing.

Lol probably cuz this guy is a super genius.

[Ogre]

Lol probably cuz this guy is a super genius.

No, No, No, that cant be it. Well maybe.

[mosesbotbol]

I saw a show on ancient structures like Giza and Machu Pichu and whether there was alien intervention in their creation. So many questions on how they made them and that we would be hard pressed to replicate them with our "modern" construction methods.

[alwayslit]

I hope aliens like cigars.......bingo!! :tu

[Starscream]

Spent any time at www.peopleofwalmart.com lately Ron? you may want to rethink that.

:r

[chachee52]

Lol probably cuz this guy is a super genius.

How do you know that I'm not? I just don't like to let everyone know because people will be constantly asking me if there are aliens!!!

[Darrell]

Another wack job..

You're kidding right? Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientific minds in history.

[GKitty]

I hope aliens like cigars

I don't... that would mean that we'd have to share.

[icehog3]

I don't... that would mean that we'd have to share.

Sharing is caring, Crystal. :)

[WyoBob]

Was it on "Twilight Zone"?----- "It's a cookbook" ("Serving Man").

WyoBob

[The Poet]

Was it on "Twilight Zone"?----- "It's a cookbook" ("Serving Man").

WyoBob

That was "To Serve Man", Bob. Based on the 1950 short story by Damon Knight, it first aired March 1962. I remember, because I got very little sleep that night. :r

But don't worry too much. We . . . uh, I mean THEY . . . do not eat much.

[1badhog07]

*I* talk to aliens. Heck, I'll talk to illegal aliens.

Yeah move to laredo,tx.i will introduce you to some illegal aliens:r

[1badhog07]

You're kidding right? Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientific minds in history.

Thats your opinion brother:D:

[Darrell]

Thats your opinion brother:D:

It's not just mine. Hehe.

[shilala]

I'll talk to whoever I want. Stephen Hawking can eat me. ;)

[Darrell]

I'll talk to whoever I want. Stephen Hawking can eat me. ;)

:r :r :r :r

[shilala]

I suppose it wouldn't be "whoever" cause it's an alien.
<redo>

I'll talk to whoever I want. Stephen Hawking can eat me. ;)

[BC-Axeman]

Heck, the aliens told me not to talk to Hawking. They said he's dangerous. Who am I going to believe?

Hawking is a math genius with a great imagination.
Science is all about theory, experiment and verification.
Neither of these things means his advice is any better than anyone else's, except on what he's good at.

[King James]

Thats your opinion brother:D:

are you basing this due to his thoughts in the scientific world? or thoughts on religion?

[SSDVC]

Hey, if they land in NY/NJ, DC/Baltimore or LA, they won't have to worry about communication. I am sure they will get the message!

[shilala]

I suppose it wouldn't be "whoever" cause it's an alien.
<redo>

I'll talk to whoever I want. Stephen Hawking can eat me. ;)
I'm a tard.
<another do-over>
I'll talk to whatever I want. ;)

[WyoBob]

That was "To Serve Man", Bob. Based on the 1950 short story by Damon Knight, it first aired March 1962. I remember, because I got very little sleep that night. :r

But don't worry too much. We . . . uh, I mean THEY . . . do not eat much.

Wow, not too many on this forum that saw the original as we did, I'll bet. You must be very old:r

I'm not worried about being dinner. I've been working out at the "Y" and am all tough and gristly, now.

WyoBob

[The Poet]

Wow, not too many on this forum that saw the original as we did, I'll bet. You must be very old:r

Yes, and since I want to get a bit older (though Lord knows why), I think I'll follow Hawking's advise, and so I won't be talking to any little green men with big white teeth - like this: :D