Hawking Warns Humanity to Avoid Dangerous Aliens

[FBPH]

Sorry, I talked about sending hydrogen bombs to other planets(so they would work in the atmosphere there), in space we are defenseless. But I was just emphasizing that we are dangerous and aliens could be even more dangerous.
*edit* Actually guns and cannons work even better in space.

No they wouldn't because they rely on the expansion of gas from the propellant. Any weapon that relies on gases/combustion would not work. The only way they would work is if they are fired from within something that has an atmosphere and then exits into space with initial velocity. Like if they fire something inside a space station and it travels outside, that would work.

Either that or do the other thing you mentioned. Send space capable ICBMs into another planet thing would work, but it would take a loooooooooong time to get there (if it isn't hit by space debris and detonates before it gets there).

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Hawking is a god.

In his lifetime he's had an affair with his nurse, solved the mysteries of Time, appeared in the Simpsons and Futurama ripping into himself, had a fight over the Higgs Boson, and is now telling NASA to shut the hell up.

This is while he only has limited muscle movement in his face.

If he had full mobility, Chuck Norris would be running.

 

[Logic 0]

This is why we shouldn't meet aliens until we get better weapons that shoot lazers.

 

[Sir Kemper]

God, I love that man.

And really, it's hard not to agree, I mean, by the time a species has actually developed some sort of space travel theve probably used up most of the resouces on there home planet, wether due to wasteful useage, useing the resources to build those ships, or other reasones.

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?

That means two things:

We may never have a problem.

or

Were going to have a problem when they come to break down our planet.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

I think the best evidence for alien life is that they haven't been trying to contact us.

Ugh, who would want to?

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

The man probably has a point...but if there was a race more advanced technology, whose to say they might not be more advanced socially? Maybe they've realized that no one likes jerks, something humanity has yet to learn in it's thousands of years of existing.

But, better safe then sorry. No harm can come from just minding our own business.

 

[AWAR]

Come on, it can't be that bad! It could actually be beneficial!

 

[blackwind14]

I wonder why when the subject of alien contact comes up, that everyone silently assumes that aliens will be more advanced that us, and that they will be the one's finding us.
What if we are ahead of the game? Would an alien life form even wish to be found by us?

 

[FBPH]

Crazy guy. Also, good work on putting District 9 there. I bet he made all these conclusions from that film.

HAHAHAHA! Very good sarcasm. Steven Hawking is one of the great genius scientists. Hes going to be remembered along with Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. So yes your intelligence compared to his is like comparing a normal human to a monkey.
I believe he is correct, we need to avoid showing all our cards to the universe, if anything think of this: Weapons we have can destroy our world, and can travel through space without humans. All we have to do is load a ship with hydrogen bombs and send it at a planet.
So what if another Species is more advanced then us?

Also we cannot measure other species at all. Kindness, anger, love emotions etc. might not even exist to another race. Meaning no friendship. They could also just kill us because we might kill them for the same reasons, the other species is another threat to our ENTIRE species.

Almost none of our conventional weapons would work in the vacuum of space. explosives don't work, neither do conventional projectiles, lasers aren't strong enough for meaningful damage yet, we pretty much have no defense in space. Except for rail-guns, but we don't have anything that is space functional yet.

What about MW2? did you not see the nuke in space? LOL.

OT; i won't even argue with that guy. Him and Stephen fry are my gods.

Well that was not detonated in space, it was detonated in the upper atmosphere. If it was detonated in space, it would be far more devastating. There would be no atmosphere, so there wouldn't be a BOOM, but that also means there wouldn't be anything to buffer out the radiation. In space the radiation would be deadlier. The massive amount of rads would destroy part of the Ozone for several hours.
But since it was detonated in the atmosphere, it instead had an EMP effect cause of the microwaves a nuclear blast creates

 

[Hithlain]

I suppose you would have to wonder why someone would leave a planet to go and visit another one. Obviously they have traveled to us in a ship across thousands and thousands of light years, which means that 1) they can live without a lot of food for a really long time or 2) they have technology beyond our comprehension.

For example, I doubt that we (had we the technology to do so) would simply go pleasure cruising through the galaxy looking for friends. We hardly do that in our own oceans on our own planet (they are mostly still unexplored!). It is entirely likely that if we showed up on a planet randomly that we would be unable to communicated and pretty trigger happy. Considering that a planet has the technology to get to us, they would probably react like us but with more effective weapons.

Perhaps we should think about it before we radio down the borg.

 

[ZephrC]

Umm... there's no point in worrying about sending out signals for them. We're doing that constantly anyway. What with all that TV and radio and communication signals and letting probes drift off into the interstellar void, there's really not much we can do to make ourselves more obvious. Sending a signal letting them know who we are and how to talk to us along with all that trash seems harmless enough to me, since if there are any aliens receiving the signal, they already know where we are.

 

[The Singularity]

Sorry, I talked about sending hydrogen bombs to other planets(so they would work in the atmosphere there), in space we are defenseless. But I was just emphasizing that we are dangerous and aliens could be even more dangerous.
*edit* Actually guns and cannons work even better in space.

No they wouldn't because they rely on the expansion of gas from the propellant. Any weapon that relies on gases/combustion would not work. The only way they would work is if they are fired from within something that has an atmosphere and then exits into space with initial velocity. Like if they fire something inside a space station and it travels outside, that would work.

Either that or do the other thing you mentioned. Send space capable ICBMs into another planet thing would work, but it would take a loooooooooong time to get there (if it isn't hit by space debris and detonates before it gets there).

...? Am I missing something here? Why wouldn't simple gas expansion work? Gases can still expand in space?
And yes ICBMs could get hit en route and would take a long time, but since no ones on the ship it could take as much time as it needs.

 

[oppp7]

Ya, I can see where he would think this. But I don't think anything can travel fast enough to make colonizing other planets possible.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Crazy guy. Also, good work on putting District 9 there. I bet he made all these conclusions from that film.

indeed, district 9 humans were, up until the films events, comeplete alien-abusing cocks of whom they(the aliens) didnt know existed until they came here on accident.

 

[new_age_reject]

May I point you all in the direction of a guy called Michio Kaku?
Yeah, he co-founded String Field Theory and has some pretty interesting stuff to say about aliens.

 

[Infiniteloop]

District 9 was a horrible movie.

 

[slowpoke999]

Hopefully if we make contact with aliens it will be on their turf and not ours, like we send the greatest minds etc and make sure 100% to avoid any-dumbshit politicians, racist military scum, or insane religious minds who will constantly try to change the aliens(I'm not saying politicians, military personal or religious people are bad, just the negative stereotypes I've listed are most likely to either scare the aliens off or get us killed).

The worst thing that could happen is say they go to a Justin Beiber gathering because the aliens notice a huge ass crowd, and when they say "Take me to your leader" all the teens show the aliens him.Hopefully aliens don't care at all about music or humanity in that case will be fucked

Here I am hoping for an encounter with an Galactic Council like in Mass Effect, being invited and dancing away in futurstic bars and live a fast and flexible life.

God I love BioWare for it. But who knows what's out there, friendly or hostile, time will tell.

Technically in the ME universe the first alien encounter wasn't all too pleasent, Humanity has gotta keep in mind that:
1.If we get invaded by aliens, not all aliens are bad
2.Not all aliens of that race are bad
3.Maybe we did something to piss them off?

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Am I the only one who thinks that aliens do exist, but are not necessarily more advanced then us?

Almost all fictional works tend to potray aliens as beings with technology well beyond our level. Yet, I find it more likely that humanity will discover aliens sooner then aliens will discover us. But then again, I also do not expect them to look humanoid either.