I thought everyone knew that
Steven Hawking says don’t talk to aliens. Because they’re probably higher-tech and more powerful versions of us.
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April 26th, 2010 at 10:03 am
How do you say “blade of grass” in Klingon?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 am
I was always baffled by the fact that the naive Carl Saganites of the 70s thought it would be a good idea to put Earth’s information on the Voyager probes. Let’s see, show a potential aggressor species our anatomy, general location, and scribe it on one of our more precious medals. Brilliant.
We should have drawn Godzilla on planet of hyper-aggressive diseases, with very little water, and put it on lead. Give those nasty bastards no reason to come here.
April 26th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Actually, we should have just rigged Voyager with a contact-detonated nuke.
April 26th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Considering Stephen Hawking believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming, his credentials as a scientific mind strike me as dubious. Although he is damn good at math.
While it seems likely that any successful, advanced alien species would possess the same ruthlessness, blood thirstiness, and general viciousness that we use on each other when convenient, it also seems unlikely that they won’t stumble upon our errant radio wave transmissions at some point anyway. We don’t exactly have a galactic cloaking device that will keep us from being discovered by opportunistic hostiles at some point.
April 26th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Small_Talent_for_War
April 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
A slight quibble, please. Jones and the other scammers in the global warming hoax are Hawkings colleagues – but NOT in Hawkings department. It is difficult for any reputable scientist to fathom the depth of the fraud, and given Hawking’s physical handicaps it’s not surprising that he took what is an obvious fraud at face value.
However, that does not change the 99.99999999 to nearly infinity odds that we are not alone in this Universe. If it’s not a multi-verse. Or worse, as some mathematical types suggest.
Given those odds, and the knowledge base necessary to bridge the gulf between the stars, Hawking gives good advice.
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April 26th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Battlefield Earth, a very good book made into a horrible movie, was based on the same premise. It was by L. Ron Hubbard who founded the Church of Scientology over a beer bet.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Well think about this….
Say if the Muslims took over earth by violent conquest and took all our technology. And sooner or later was able to get past their hangup with science and mastered space travel.
Would you want to be on some other world when they showed up?
Hawkins has a point!