Comments on: Dear Aliens, please ignore Dr. Stephen Hawking. You are very welcome here anytime.

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:43:40 +0000

Earth = The Experiments of Life
Earth is a location in the Galaxy where life has been brewing for many years. Many of the experiments have been tested evaluated and allowed to expire. Better than 95+ %. Periodically there is a need to refresh, clean, the environment. Humanity is not important and shows very little promise. Might be time again for another Mass extinction. The experimenters know whats going on on Earth.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:53:20 +0000

Hawkings didn’t propose that we fight Aliens should they visit. He said advertising our presence for the sake of making contact may be unwise. We can listen without attracting attention to ourselves. I think he may be correct. A species that is traveling so far from home needs fuel of some sort to keep moving. If we are vastly inferior in intelligence’s , They may view us with same regard we do cows or chickens.

By: Nasdaq7

Nasdaq7 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:55:57 +0000

Bad evil people can triumph over good and rule over intelligent populations by force. There is both good and bad in the actions of all living creatures, both intelligent or not so. Intelligence doesn’t always automatically mean good – there are some intelligent super criminals in this world that use their intelligence to hurt others. People that use technology to steal and to hurt other people because it is easier to to steal than to work for something.

By: glenn

glenn — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:09:50 +0000

Joe its interesting you mention intelligence and for some reason you want to link benovolence with intelligence in fact historically the “leaders” that thought they were intellectually superior always took from the “less intelligent” whether it is their land, freedoms, etc…

So historically your perception is a little flawed. All the biggest tyrants thought they were intellectually superior.

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:58:36 +0000

OK, let’s test your notion that friendly aliens are a Hollywood contrivance…. it’s such a fun idea I’m doing a separate blog post….

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:57:05 +0000

Glenn the USA and other powerful countries *do* have the chance to nab resources from “weaker countries” and almost without exception we don’t do it. This is the history I’m talking about, where the more advanced / intelligent we become the *less* likely we are to steal stuff from others. It’s a rational response to look for “win win” vs “win lose” even if one has NO morality anyway.

By: glenn

glenn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:01:43 +0000

ROFL…no one said take them all out. You have been watching too many movies but the facts are any visitation needs to be quaranteened, etc.

It’s funny how you assume that a more intelligent race won’t be hostile.

Think of this way. What if we found a planet with life on it not as advanced as ours but they had precious resources that we need? What would happen?

Joe the other element of resources isn’t that they would pirate but they would want to inhabit our planet for their own needs, etc.

But Joe I am not surprised you think it is illogical to assume aliens will be hostile…you still think voting for Obama was a logical choice and no one in Congress is corrupt, etc…

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:17:34 +0000

So Glenn if you were in charge of the first encounter, and you basically didn’t have any info other than “the aliens are coming”, and you thought you could take them all out before they suspected anything….would you?

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:15:11 +0000

Wow, I’m … surprised again … by how few people seem to see how illogical it is to assume aliens will be hostile. There’s a big irony here because that assumption could be what does us in – it’s almost ridiculous to assume we’ll have a viable defense against a culture that could make it to our far flung part of the galaxy and more importantly would choose to come here in the first place.

Horatiox I certainly agree it’s likely to be 100s of years – if ever – that we get a visit. The main reason is our remote location. If you were surfing the universe for other intelligent life you’d head for denser concentrations of stars and planets.

But the resource pirate idea seems kooky in my view. Ships coming here will very likely be self contained and sustainbble if they have organic life but I doubt ships would ever come with organics – much more likely visitors would be superintelligent hybrids or pure machines that either work with or *have evolved from* organic folks.

Virtually nothing to fear, potentially everything to gain.

By: horatiox

horatiox — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:27:48 +0000

Actually, I agree to some extent with the Glennster here (and with Doktor Hawking). Cute aliens–little green men, ET, etc–are a Hollywood invention (following pulp-sci-fi of 50s…and Star trek). It’s unlikely earthlings will encounter any aliens–at least for a few centuries–but there’s no guarantee they will be little green men, or even conscious–they might be viruses, bacteria, or insectoids of some sort. Were they large and humanoid with actual spacecraft, they might be …Klingons! Or worse. Which is to say, if they’re capable of interstellar travel, they’ll probably quickly harvest earth for food and resources, and then liquidate with some monster laser.