A warning, from one of the greatest minds in human history.
Hawking isn't Loving The Alien. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8642558.stm
Hawking isn't Loving The Alien. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8642558.stm
Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens
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PirateKing
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Even if there are lifeforms on others planet there's no way of knowing how distant the nearest inhabited planet is or how evolved they are. There could be planets that are still going through a dinosaur age. Shit, there could be another planet with humans just like us....wondering if there's life on other planets just like us. Just thinking about it blows my mind. Although, distant space travel may just be a scientific impossibility and we may never see aliens. We're just a microcosm of the universe.
The first 2 instincts living things we understand have are to survive then thrive. Assuming a life form was sophisticated enough to deliberately make contact with us you'd have to assume their instincts would be the same.
The usual order of relationships between living things is either predator, prey, host or companion.
I wouldn't think it useful for a sophisticated species to be naturally hostile to earthlings. Unless we represented a threat to their survival or were essential to their ability to thrive. Looking at intelligent human life forms (for example) as a food source isn't really logical IMO.
Just because one being is superior to another (which would most likely be the case in where aliens made contact with us) doesn't automatically mean you become their prey. Just because we would likely be inferior doesn't foreclose the likelihood that we would be far more useful to them as companions. We are superior in most useful ways to dogs or cats and they're not our prey. Their companion existence enriches our lives in many cases. Also it is the rare exception that even dumb animals raid their resources to depletion. Besides if their taste preference or need is organic flesh or bone there a many other earthlings that fit that bill and probably taste better to them (I mean really, Rosie O'Donnell's snatch or a porter house? Any "intelligent" life form can make that decision :o).
If we assume they would be superior intellectually, why wouldn't we assume they would act accordingly and consistently? We could assume their calculus is different from the way our cycles of logic or instinct generally operate and that would be the only real caveat in making contact.
BTW, I was abducted by aliens once. Just kidding....hmmm or am I?
The usual order of relationships between living things is either predator, prey, host or companion.
I wouldn't think it useful for a sophisticated species to be naturally hostile to earthlings. Unless we represented a threat to their survival or were essential to their ability to thrive. Looking at intelligent human life forms (for example) as a food source isn't really logical IMO.
Just because one being is superior to another (which would most likely be the case in where aliens made contact with us) doesn't automatically mean you become their prey. Just because we would likely be inferior doesn't foreclose the likelihood that we would be far more useful to them as companions. We are superior in most useful ways to dogs or cats and they're not our prey. Their companion existence enriches our lives in many cases. Also it is the rare exception that even dumb animals raid their resources to depletion. Besides if their taste preference or need is organic flesh or bone there a many other earthlings that fit that bill and probably taste better to them (I mean really, Rosie O'Donnell's snatch or a porter house? Any "intelligent" life form can make that decision :o).
If we assume they would be superior intellectually, why wouldn't we assume they would act accordingly and consistently? We could assume their calculus is different from the way our cycles of logic or instinct generally operate and that would be the only real caveat in making contact.
BTW, I was abducted by aliens once. Just kidding....hmmm or am I?
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your the idiot to think that... they can be just like us and destroy us... with new illness and just don;t like us cause we different... sounds like history all over again...:hatsoff:
Everyone knows that all aliens will help mankind reach a new level of peaceful existence.
your the idiot to think that... they can be just like us and destroy us... with new illness and just don;t like us cause we different... sounds like history all over again...:hatsoff:
larss
I'm watching some specialist videos
Did you not see War of the Worlds. Any attacking force would be wiped out by our own microscopic bacteria and/or virus.
Or Independence Day, where we give their computer a virus
Humans for the win :nanner:
If they're anything like the aliens in District 9 we could have some new kick ass weapons to kill each other with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH7bJhirr7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RtJK7h7XU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH7bJhirr7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RtJK7h7XU
larss
I'm watching some specialist videos
Bloody good film. :thumbsup:
pornophile
Banned
We must hide our women, if the aliens discover Earth they would surely take our beautiful women, starting with the pornstars! I mean seriously, no other creature in the universe can compare to the sheer sexiness of our women. I am turning my basement into a women shelter, any and all ladies are welcome to join me in my basement fort. You can't be overweight though, sorry....space limitations.
Which is more likely to happen, E.T or Independence day? The mans right in his own opinion that chances are if aliens found us, we'd be a smear on their windshield.
On a serious note, what does mankind have to offer visitors? Big screen tvs, political asylum in a council flat and a wide selection of class A drugs?
Mankind are likely to be viewed as cavemen in the eyes of the galactic community. We're lucky if we can get a plane from one continent to another without our own people blowing it up, or it crashing because our own planet is attempting suicide, let alone get a ship into space where it has all the range to bring us back a pile of rocks. Next stop mars!...To bring back a slightly different shade of rock!
It probably would take an event like reaching the speed of light ala star trek first contact, to get any notice and odds are that would end with a bullseye painted on the planet.
Why the hell are we looking to fucking up someone elses planet when our own is being packed tighter and tighter like a trash compactor by a species whose own selfish ignorance means we're having a blast now, yet in a hundreds years might well be deservedly extinct!
On a serious note, what does mankind have to offer visitors? Big screen tvs, political asylum in a council flat and a wide selection of class A drugs?
Mankind are likely to be viewed as cavemen in the eyes of the galactic community. We're lucky if we can get a plane from one continent to another without our own people blowing it up, or it crashing because our own planet is attempting suicide, let alone get a ship into space where it has all the range to bring us back a pile of rocks. Next stop mars!...To bring back a slightly different shade of rock!
It probably would take an event like reaching the speed of light ala star trek first contact, to get any notice and odds are that would end with a bullseye painted on the planet.
Why the hell are we looking to fucking up someone elses planet when our own is being packed tighter and tighter like a trash compactor by a species whose own selfish ignorance means we're having a blast now, yet in a hundreds years might well be deservedly extinct!
You have obviously yet to experience the sexual utopia to be found amongst the hermaphrodite squid-bats of the Yartleburg IV system.
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