Hawking Warns Humanity to Avoid Dangerous Aliens
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Hmm. I'd hope that the aliens would have realized the mistakes associated with genocide, just as humanity, for the most part, already has. Still, being cautious is never a bad thing. In all likelihood, I think that we're more likely the discover a less-intelligent species than the other way around, given what we know about the universe already. I mean, since we have not met alien life yet and are in the process of developing more advanced space travel technology, if things go on as they have been, we will be fully prepared to explore space and still not have met alien life in a few centuries. In that case, we'll have to be the instigators and establish first contact ourselves.
I think the thinking behind these alien outreach programmes is that as civilisations advance tech-wise, they also improve their morality (if it's possible to have objectively good morals) and become less xenophobic etc. based on how humans have (although we're doing so pretty slowly). ^^
Edit: Personally, I think it's being very hopeful.
Edit: Personally, I think it's being very hopeful.
Well duh!
The Gou'ald tried to wipe us out a ton of times, plus the Replicators tried to devour our Galaxy...
Of all the people in the world I'm surprised Mr. Hawking hasn't heard of the Stargate Program under Cheyenne Mountain.
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What? Don't give me that look! The Stargate is real! REAL I SAY!
*Gets carried away by security*
The Gou'ald tried to wipe us out a ton of times, plus the Replicators tried to devour our Galaxy...
Of all the people in the world I'm surprised Mr. Hawking hasn't heard of the Stargate Program under Cheyenne Mountain.
....
What? Don't give me that look! The Stargate is real! REAL I SAY!
*Gets carried away by security*
Or they could just be scouting parties, after all, no army just attacks without doing a little recon.The_Oracle said:
Seems to me that we need to get the planetary shields and giant lasers in place before its too late.
I'm gonna do the young person thing and say they probably won't be and your looking at a worst case senario. We have no way of predicting what aliens could be like. We are naturally curious so we ask is it out there. Another alien species may simply think, well theres a new species, let's log it and move on with our lives. The species would also need to be curious enough however to enter space. If it were a species which, hypothetically, was only concerned with improving their local surroundings, space would not be on top of their things to do list, but rather to revolutionise their local habitat to be more comfy, so would probably, if they did meet us, would be more curious as to who we were, but as to what this curiosity might reveal again depends on the species.
Don't listen to him folks. Just been watching too many episodes of that "Wormhole Xtreme". We have nothing to fear from symbiotic snake monsters.Frank_Sinatra_ said:
bjj hero said:
That and the fact that if we kill one of their soldiers, We will figure out their tech and use it for ourselves.
Considering how health and safety conscious a lot of societies have become (how many times have people been sued over a wet floor etc?), we seem to be pretty cavalier about our planet's security in this sense. What happened to erring on the side of caution?
tl;dr: I agree with the professor.
tl;dr: I agree with the professor.
Well, you can't fault the man's logic. He does raise a valid point. BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT...
...while im not denying that there is other life in the universe, i think the aliens would come here for conquest, kinda like how humans are trying to find hospitable life on other planets so we have a back-up plan, and we will probably destroy that intelligent life so we can not have competition...
...while im not denying that there is other life in the universe, i think the aliens would come here for conquest, kinda like how humans are trying to find hospitable life on other planets so we have a back-up plan, and we will probably destroy that intelligent life so we can not have competition...
An entire race living in huge ships...imagine what video games they could develop...awesome graphics.
Who am I to sisagree with Hawking, but I'm not all that worried. The universe is so big and vast that we probably have both aliens like in star trek as well as civilizations so advanced that they are nothing more but immortal gods. But I have to agree that we would probably not benefit from contact. We would just get a massive inferiority complex, knowing that we are not the centre of the universe and such. Our ego would get desintegrated.
What if they're so advanced that they built a device that allows them to break down any material at the atomic level and reform it into anything they want?Sir Kemper said: