Avoid Aliens says Stephen Hawking
Pretty much everyone knows Stephen Hawking is a smart dude. He writes books, simplifies complicated stuff and makes it popular and digestible, a rare art. So when he tells people to avoid contacting alien life, it might be a good idea to listen?
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
-Stephen Hawking
If any of the alien creatures in his soon to be aired documentary exist, then I would tend to agree.
People endlessly debate about whether life exists outside of the earth. Stephen tends to be pretty certain that it does and, just based on the numbers alone, it makes sense enough to me that some life must exist somewhere. (Take a look at the night sky and tell me we are alone!) As comforting as it might feel that we are the only ones in existence, it just doesn’t make sense. But who knows, even Stephen Hawking can’t tell you yes for sure, yet.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
-Stephen Hawking
The depiction of living oddities and predators envisioned by the scientist definitely keeps me from hoping for contact any time soon. Unless we want to become living specimens in a petri dish or a dinner-time delicacy for a hungry creature, he says we should try and minimize our attempts at contacting the aliens who live “out there”. Okay, Stephen, I get it. Good idea. Now let’s go get all our exploratory space junk back and hide in our basements!
You can read more of the details here. Hint: Don’t make it your child’s bedtime story!
