Hawking Warns Humanity to Avoid Dangerous Aliens
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I agree with Hawking on this one. I would not like to meet aliens if they are anything like us.
If we do meet them lets hope they have had some kind of revelation something along the lines of 'don't kill humans and don't pillage their resources'. I know humans havn't been very good at abiding by that.
If we do meet them lets hope they have had some kind of revelation something along the lines of 'don't kill humans and don't pillage their resources'. I know humans havn't been very good at abiding by that.
I've personally always believed the greatest threat is if we are discovered by GOOD aliens with a strong moral code. I believe that if such aliens ever discovered and studied mankind, they'd wipe us out in disgusted horror for the good of the galaxy.
I wouldn't worry about the aliens...
The robots will get to us first!!! XD
EDIT: I think what we can truly understand about this article is that Mr. Hawkin is not much of a fan of Avatar and probably prefers the Alien films.
The robots will get to us first!!! XD
EDIT: I think what we can truly understand about this article is that Mr. Hawkin is not much of a fan of Avatar and probably prefers the Alien films.
Honestly, if aliens have advanced enough technology to take their gigantic death-dealing starships the millions of lightyears needed to find Earth and strip it of resources, I suspect that they wouldn't need mere radio signals to find us - they could probably identify Earth and all its resources via a simple light spectrum analysis, which travels just as fast.
However, given the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer, I'm inclined to believe that they already know about us. We've more than enough people claiming to have been abducted by them. I'm not sure I'd go so far as "walking among us," but it seems to me that humanity is very much being monitored and/or manipulated.
It makes a certain sense, really, if you think about it. Lets say you have a space ship capable of transversing the cosmos. You discover this planet where intelligent life seems to be evolving. Do you leave them to be, risking the chance they'll turn into something that comes back and threatens your race later, or do you intervene and try to shepherd them into something that isn't a threat? I imagine this would be matter of some debate, but the thing is, the means are available, and at least one alien race out there is likely to have made the latter decision.
Given that it takes millions of years to evolve, if they wanted our resources, they'd probably have had them by now. Yet, again, when you have the means to transverse the entire universe, mere elemental resources really aren't that rare.
However, given the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer, I'm inclined to believe that they already know about us. We've more than enough people claiming to have been abducted by them. I'm not sure I'd go so far as "walking among us," but it seems to me that humanity is very much being monitored and/or manipulated.
It makes a certain sense, really, if you think about it. Lets say you have a space ship capable of transversing the cosmos. You discover this planet where intelligent life seems to be evolving. Do you leave them to be, risking the chance they'll turn into something that comes back and threatens your race later, or do you intervene and try to shepherd them into something that isn't a threat? I imagine this would be matter of some debate, but the thing is, the means are available, and at least one alien race out there is likely to have made the latter decision.
Given that it takes millions of years to evolve, if they wanted our resources, they'd probably have had them by now. Yet, again, when you have the means to transverse the entire universe, mere elemental resources really aren't that rare.
As long as these Aliens aren't called "The Daleks"..then i don't think we will have to many problems. However, i do think we have a way to go before we can start dealing with Aliens properly (And by that, i mean not solving every problem from outer space with a nuclear missle..)
This is a pretty tricky subject. The only thing I can tell for sure is that we have no idea of how life can evolve outside Earth since that's pretty much the only example of life we've been able to study properly so far. How do we know that completely separate forms of life will develop concepts like "warfare"? Or even "civilization"? Humanity has just begun to become aware of the universe and how it works. The only thing we can really expect for now is the unexpected.
It's better to be cautious then reckless I'd say though. Even if we would encounter a peaceful and friendly-minded form of life outside our solar system it would likely not be the start of an inter-species communication and cooperation as many forms of science fiction stories would represent (like Star Wars, Mass Effect, etc...). Instead we would likely be forced to keep our distance away from each other. We have no idea how their biology, chemistry or the mechanics of their eco-system work. An alien bacteria, disease or just a common particle could have catastrophic results on life on Earth and vice versa on the aliens.
The most probable and realistic scenario (if it does not result in conflict) will likely be that communication and interaction between other forms of sentinence would be a slow and gradual development. Maybe communication will reach an advanced level enough so that we could have a limited trade inbetween the civilizations, but I wouldn't excpect much more from that.
Or we could get lucky and encounter life in the form of existence potrayed in "The Black Cloud" by Fred Hoyle.
It's better to be cautious then reckless I'd say though. Even if we would encounter a peaceful and friendly-minded form of life outside our solar system it would likely not be the start of an inter-species communication and cooperation as many forms of science fiction stories would represent (like Star Wars, Mass Effect, etc...). Instead we would likely be forced to keep our distance away from each other. We have no idea how their biology, chemistry or the mechanics of their eco-system work. An alien bacteria, disease or just a common particle could have catastrophic results on life on Earth and vice versa on the aliens.
The most probable and realistic scenario (if it does not result in conflict) will likely be that communication and interaction between other forms of sentinence would be a slow and gradual development. Maybe communication will reach an advanced level enough so that we could have a limited trade inbetween the civilizations, but I wouldn't excpect much more from that.
Or we could get lucky and encounter life in the form of existence potrayed in "The Black Cloud" by Fred Hoyle.
Of course alins exist. I imagine they'd be like flying jellyfish or deadly bacteria. I don;t think they'd be so great to hang out with either.
This is not something I agree with, most of the resources available on Earth could more easily be taken from uninhabited planets, even the other planets and asteroids in our solar system. The resources produced by life (such as oil and coal) are unlikely to be much use to an interstellar race as it is unlikely that such an inefficient method of power generation could be used to supply the energy required to cross the vast tracts of empty space, more likely they will need hydrogen which is available in unimaginable quantities throughout the universe. Even humanity has started the transition to a hydrogen economy and we're a very long way from travelling between the stars.
Please say that you meant this ironically. If the LHC wasn't safe the human race would have probably never existed, vastly more energetic events are occurring every day above your heads when protons, from energetic events in the universe such as supernovae, (the same particles that are being accelerated by the LHC) interact with the atmosphere.Haloperidol said:
interesting show that was. Funny how he didnt mention about the mass gain with speed increase in the time travel episode >.<