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Stephen Hawking is a smart guy...

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited April 2010 in Chit chat
...and when he says this:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100425/tod-contacting-aliens-a-bad-idea-warns-h-870a197.html

I get scared!

:O
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  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 2010
    This reminds me I saw the ad for it today, and it was scheduled to start 42 minutes ago on the Discovery channel. Oh well, will have to download it.
  • GrazGraz
    edited April 2010
    Bit obvious really!
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited April 2010
    Prof. Hawking:
    I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.
    Er, wasn't that the exact plot for 'Independence Day: ID4'?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited April 2010
    He's been watching V hasn't he :D
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited April 2010
    I'm all in for sharing our resources with intelligent beings, not sure the Daily Mail would put the same spin on it though.
  • SpectorSpector
    edited April 2010
    Hawking's right.
    I can imagine what will happen when they land: "Your possessions, your very lives, are now mine. In return, you shall receive the glory of our rule. In other words, you shall be allowed to live!"
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2010
    I think its a valid point to make, but as others have said obvious.

    What's to say that all aliens are nice and cute.
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited April 2010
    "Smart" does not always equal "right" ... nor even "correct" ...

    My spin:
    If we were experiencing a global economic boom, complete lack of wars, equal freedom for all, everywhere, then his story might be different. "Oh, aliens have conquered their own insecurities and are on good terms with all, spreading cheer and happiness in every galaxy. They're out there to share their wealth and wisdom with us, just like we are with each other here. We have no problems over here, and are completely bored so our next "mission" in life ought to be to continue to actively search out other lifeforms elsewhere."
  • milemile
    edited April 2010
    i think he's been slipped a couple of bob by Gordon Brown, so his plan of updating the trident missles will look like a good investment.

    anyway i hope the aliens have 3 tits like that lady from 'total recall'
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited April 2010
    One for each hand and one in the middle to suck on. I can see this taking off.
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, we're all doomed if the aliens land..even if they are nice, we'll probably catch the Ali3N flu virus off them.... or something......
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2010
    Dave Fountain wrote: »
    One for each hand and one in the middle to suck on. I can see this taking off.

    Are you not referring to Lilly Allen?

    It does explain why she's so popular.
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  • chop983chop983
    edited April 2010
    The surest sign that intelligent life exists on other planets is that none has tried to contact us.
  • grey keygrey key
    edited April 2010
    They might rule our lives and tell us what to think and do, imprison us for their own ulterior motives, persecute us and kill us at their own whim. Force us to work for them in exchange for food and shelter, then throw us on the scrapheap when we are too old to be of service.

    Well, no change there then, we already have that !

    Bring on the Aliens I say, although if they are really out there, I doubt if they will bother visiting us, I wouldn`t if I were an Alien. Only to stock up the freezer and I don`t mean a trip to the local Iceland store.;)

    One problem with Stephen Hawking saying this, most people will believe him, then if we did have peaceful contact, the Aliens would still be hunted down by the public because of what he has said, the Government would not want any competition for power, they control everything and they want it to stay that way. So they would promote high profile experts to speak out against the Aliens, so that they can wipe them out and say that they only did it because WE demanded it !
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited April 2010
    Spector wrote: »
    hawking's right.
    I can imagine what will happen when they land: "your possessions, your very lives, are now mine. In return, you shall receive the glory of our rule. In other words, you shall be allowed to live!"

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  • WinstonWinston
    edited April 2010
    It's too late. In the radio frequency band, for many decades now the Earth has emitted more energy than the sun. Our presence would be obvious to anyone with technology advanced enough to arrive from their far-off home to Earth (i.e. any being with a suitably sensitive radio receiver) looking this way in a range of a good ~80 or so light years by now.
  • milemile
    edited April 2010
    it'd be finny if they landed now and said they'd cure everyones medical problems, but when stephen hawking rolled up they told him to piss of.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited April 2010
    mile wrote: »
    anyway i hope the aliens have 3 tits like that lady from 'total recall'

    She was a mutant not an alien.

    *pedant

    ;)
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited April 2010
    grey key wrote: »
    One problem with Stephen Hawking saying this, most people will believe him, then if we did have peaceful contact, the Aliens would still be hunted down by the public because of what he has said, the Government would not want any competition for power, they control everything and they want it to stay that way. So they would promote high profile experts to speak out against the Aliens, so that they can wipe them out and say that they only did it because WE demanded it !

    District 9. It would simply be a new type of racism. What would it be called - being-ism?
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  • milemile
    edited April 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    She was a mutant not an alien.

    *pedant

    ;)

    she was born on mars, hence being an alien. jeez
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited April 2010
    Vampyre wrote: »
    District 9. It would simply be a new type of racism. What would it be called - being-ism?

    Speciesism ... which, funny enough, we already have got going on on this planet.
  • milemile
    edited April 2010
    it would be interesting to see the worlds reaction to aliens landing.
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited April 2010
    Just going into it a little deeper on a personal level... we all know how super clever the guy is (and even if we don't know we take it for granted), but maybe his comments were a reflection on how he feels as a.... God what's the latest politically correct word for it... disabled entity in an mostly abled world, how he feels most other people see him, and a certain alienation he must feel from the rest of society. There is no way to tell if its a sarcastic or even a bitter dig, not with that voice like. You see what I'm saying.

    Or maybe he's just super clever and I should get me coat.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited April 2010
    Dave Fountain wrote: »
    Or maybe he's just super clever and I should get me coat.

    There is no denying it that the guy is clever. It's just not common for someone of his academic stature and respect(ability?) to say out loud that he believes in aliens and then to take it a step further and declare them hostile.

    I could understand it if he were to announce some sort of mathematical probability of existence of aliens "out there" not necessarily as sentient beings but as germs or otherwise ... he kind of takes the cake and runs with it when he says this outlandish Sci-Fi thing that they are there and probably aiming their guns at us ... that's basically where he loses my interest in what he has to say about this specific subject.
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited April 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    He's been watching V hasn't he :D
    Yup, him *and* David Icke.
  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited April 2010
    I just like the Futurama idea that there are aliens out there giving us a wide berth but hooked on our telly programmes like "Ally McBeal". As Ally McBeal finished a few years back it's now just a waiting game for their iminent visit...

    ...shit!
  • SpectorSpector
    edited April 2010
    I was amused by the Private Eye sketch a while back on this subject, showing aliens landing dressed in 18th Century period costumes. The leader alien says "We have been monitoring your BBC drama programmes for a while now and naturally thought this was the way humanoids dressed!" :D
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  • guesserguesser
    edited April 2010
    What most people fail to realise is that while Stephen Hawking is dead clever, he's also a bit of an arse. (and rather incredibly arrogant too I've heard)
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  • guesserguesser
    edited April 2010
    any alien civilisation that has the technological ability to get here from wherever it is that our transmissions have reached (in any sensible time period that is. If the signals set off from here at C 80 years ago then we've got a hell of a long time to prepare for the aliens' arrival) will have no need to come here to invade us and nick our stuff.
    They must also surely be intelligent enough to realise that we are nothing like ready for a first contact after all on "star trek" they don't interfere with any species that hasn't developed "warp travel" (except when they do of course, in every other episode :))
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  • bohuskbohusk
    edited April 2010
    Another thought:
    Everybody talks about aliens can receive our radio/TV signal in sphere about 80lightyears, but nobody realises that we cannot receive anything like that, if aliens were advanced further that have developed technology that they can come here, they had to invent such things like TV/radio many years before us, where is the signal ? Stephen Hawking is scared in his introvert complexes, he doesn't pay attention at natural technical evolution in a society similar to humans. Let nobody tells me that bullshit that aliens broadcast at so different frequency that we cannot receive anything.
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