Stephen Hawking Warns of Alien Menace

[Starbreaker]

the aliens have already arrived they are in our heads ., they are considered to be a kind of cognitive virus . self replicating idea form., yes just because you have read this now you are infected by these aliens as well hahahahaha...

be aware be very aware someone is coming woot ., LOL

what would happen if I mixed Mr. Hawking's meds with my own?

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I saw aliens the other year they were in transit to the other side of reality they just stopped IN to say hello ,, hello.,

this.

 

[RandyS]

He's just a man with a serious chip on his shoulder and adoring supporters. One man's terrorist is the next man's freedom fighter.

He's got to be more than that. Nine years on, and they still can't catch him.

 

[Holdfast]

I think it's time we beef up our planetary defenses.

What say you?

What do I say?

Peace. Through Superior Firepower.

 

[john titor]

I think it's time we beef up our planetary defenses.

What say you?

What do I say?

Peace. Through Superior Firepower.

At last someone is speaking sense. Stephen Hawking knows something you guys don't, the US government knows that there are alien species out there. There is no reason to believe they have a psychology which in any way resembles our own and that is the greatest threat aliens pose. This is why the US government is taking prudent steps to arm us up militarily because as Holdfast has correctly pointed out peace can only be obtained through superior firepower.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'm more than happy to have orbital weapons platforms, just so long as:

1. They're pointed away from Earth.
2. The headquarters where they're controlled from is in a safe hardened facility and
3. It's controlled by the co-operation of the worlds most powerful countries.

 

[Holdfast]

The US military is now testing a mini-space shuttle that can be remotely piloted in orbit. I must admit, the first thing I thought on reading this was: "awesome, mobile orbital SD platform".

 

[xortex]

We need aliens from Independance Day to help us destroy the asteroid in Armeggedon. Unless Bruce Willis is up to the task again.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

To be frank, any alien attack probably wont come from space/orbit. To travel the distances of space they probably fold space or create some kind of wormhole. Such technology would allow them to bypass any orbital defences easily.
Even if they flew to Earth and could be physically attacked they're probably way too fast for weapons to even get a lock on.

If aliens come, we're screwed.

We need aliens from Independance Day to help us destroy the asteroid in Armeggedon. Unless Bruce Willis is up to the task again.

I think we should place nukes on every asteroid in the solar system. Why? Just because.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

What amazes me is that Hawking doesn't even dismiss interstellar travel...

Why would he? He has talked a little about aliens before and believes it is likely that intelligent aliens would either be far behind us or far, far ahead. If we are talking about a culture 1000s or maybe even millions of years ahead of us, it would be very stupid to say what their science is and is not capable of.

 

[B.J.]

Watching it right now. Hawking: "Star Wars and Star Trek, two of my personal favorites...."

 

[Yeoman Randi]

God help us if the only ship in range isn't named the Enterprise.

Thanks for my morning coffee spew!

 

[Gryffindorian]

I think Professor Hawking got it wrong. If aliens were to appear on Earth, their ship would hover above Johannesburg, South Africa, their sources depleted and all. My theory is that these extraterrestials would look like grasshoppers and have a penchant for eating cat food. Humans would exploit them and try to use their biologically based weapons and technology.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

If I were an advanced star-faring alien race seeking to take control of Earth for its resources, I'd simply seed the planet with biological weapons- sneak in an engineered virus, say- without even announcing my presence. Cloak a ship, gather data on human genetics and biology- shouldn't be too hard- use the advanced tech available to our interstellar culture to cultivate a deadly plague tailored to their biology. They have very little genetic diversity. It shouldn't be hard, if we have FTL and all. Who needs a full-out attack on the planetary defenses? The humans don't need to know we even exist. One stealth shuttle carrying the plague, seed the planet, sit back and wait a few months. One free planet!

Defend against that.

 

[Gryffindorian]

On second thought, they're already here (and have been for a long time). Unbeknownst to mankind, they've caused all sorts of problems. It's only a matter of time before those motherships appear in major cities of the world.

 

[Deckerd]

I think it's time we beef up our planetary defenses.

What say you?

What do I say?

Peace. Through Superior Firepower.

"I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine"

 

[Deckerd]

What amazes me is that Hawking doesn't even dismiss interstellar travel...

Why would he? He has talked a little about aliens before and believes it is likely that intelligent aliens would either be far behind us or far, far ahead. If we are talking about a culture 1000s or maybe even millions of years ahead of us, it would be very stupid to say what their science is and is not capable of.

Or not. There's nothing to stop them travelling from one end of the galaxy to the other at sublight speeds. There's nothing to stop us either. I think that's what Prof Hawking is saying.

 

[Holdfast]

I think it's time we beef up our planetary defenses.

What say you?

What do I say?

Peace. Through Superior Firepower.

"I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine"

I hear you like keep it handy... for close encounters...

 

[Meredith]

Sure we should be careful; at the moment we are not able to defend ourselves against people that have the ability to travel between the stars en masse, we would definitely be facing an OCP

The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests.

Wikipedia

That also happened when Commodore Perry arrived in Japan, and guess what happened after that????

Japan went from Medevial Tech to Battleship Yamato in a little less than a 70 years.....

Though they are the exception to the rule....

 

[MANT!]

True...but Commodore Perry was interested in opening trade with Japan..not killing them outright and taking over

I prefer the wasp nest theory..A human is mighty compared to a wasp nest attached to his house..but unless it's a huge bother, most folks will leave it alone..

 

[Joshua Howard]

I, as some here, was a little bit surprised hearing Hawking present the idea of hostile aliens as if it is on the level of a new theory, when in fact it has been a common concept in science fiction for quite a while. He is a physicist, and a pure genius. This, however, is just basic common sense. Any rational person must reach the conclusion that aliens may be of a hostile nature.

Independence Day is, in its right, a pretty good movie. It depicts aliens that don't really interface with us at all. They don't talk to us. They don't like anything that we like. They are big and bad, and even if they weren't, we still wouldn't know the first thing about engaging in diplomacy with their kind of species.

The other side of the theory is that since patterns do repeat themselves throughout the universe, most "Class M" planets support similar lifeforms. Such a theory would indicate that our visitors will probably be humanoid, capable of sharing our language, and their differences physically will be chiefly cosmetic, such as variation in skin tone or muscle build.

One might further suppose that similar humanoid civilizations share space nearest to us, while more fierce and strange things exist in places further away from where we are. The best example of this theory in action concerns fish, which share commonalities in shallow water, but grow stranger, larger, and fiercer the deeper one goes.

I am inclined to believe that ending world poverty and providing universal education are the primary first steps toward advancement sufficient to support space travel. Given the advancement of technology in the last ten years, human potential has never looked more promising.