Stephen Hawking: 'E.T.' Is Dangerous
In Life by Jeffery , on Monday, April 26, 2010, 10:55 PM (PDT)
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Do not take them to your leader.
Be careful of E.T. According to astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, contact with aliens will not go as prettily as human beings imagine.
The world's most famous authority on space and theoretical physics says in a new documentary on the Discovery Channel, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, that intelligent life forms almost certainly exist somewhere out there in the cosmos, but that it may be "too risky" to try and contact them.
Hawking theorized that a visit from aliens would be like Christopher Columbus discovering America, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
The 68 year-old British scientist said that while most extraterrestrial life is probably in the form of small microbes and the like, any intelligent life capable of space travel are probably made up of "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize."
So that means the next time you run into a 8 foot-tall salamander in full space armor, try not to lure it back to your house with a handful of Reese's Pieces.
I am so happy that Stephen Hawking came out with this statement. It is just that so many people have been sucked into this peace, love, granola concept about ET. My favorite line was the pastor in the first War of the Worlds movie.
"If they are more intelligent than we are, they must be closer to God."
Yepper, the problem is either ET is just this cute race which are here to give us paradise or they want to open up a bistro on earth and make us the main entree. I kind of hope for a third view.
"Oh yeah we have been watching your TV and listening to your radio for years.
We just decided that we were going to ignore you."
BestRegards,
Pete