EPTStephen Hawking says don't talk to aliens - Page 2
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On April 27 2010 23:33 Hawk wrote: wouldn't necessarily be too bad. This would be bitchin' Nice trolling, you know it'd be nothing like that. + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7ZRK7o6Xg It'd be like this. | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32106 Posts
being somewhat serious, I can't believe people think that what hawkins said is weird | ||
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Vain
Netherlands1115 Posts
On April 28 2010 00:03 Jibba wrote: Nice trolling, you know it'd be nothing like that. + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7ZRK7o6Xg It'd be like this. Obviously | ||
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
On April 27 2010 22:44 plated.rawr wrote: Yea, humans are obviously the prime resource on our planet, not the planet itself. I feel Hawkings is just stating the obvious here. You have the obvious example in your fellow man with the raping of new land and decimation of their native inhabitants, so why should you expect any better from some extraplanar species? It'd be naive. There are all sorts of philosophical arguments, like a species that lived long enough to achieve interstellar travel would have had to learn how to conserve resources... unless a barbaric species like us was given the technology by an older, more mature race. Either way it's all been discussed ad nauseum in about six thousand sci-fi books in the past century or so. | ||
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AmorVincitOmnia
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QibingZero
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It's highly unlikely that any alien race would care about Earth for any other reason than that it also eventually held intelligent life. And in that sense, they'd probably steer clear since despite their likely curiosity, as dealing with a species that can't even get along with their own kind long enough to work toward a greater good seems dangerous and unrewarding. wru Carl Sagan  | ||
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
It sounds pretty stupid though to fear an alien invasion for something like resources. If an intelligent species develops interest in humanity then probably rather for research or enslavement (unlikely for a space travelling race) or anything where they need actual humans. There's no point in travelling all the way to earth for resources, the universe has plenty of everything. Why would you start a war over resources on a far away planet when there's a million times as much right in front of your door? | ||
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
Has anyone ever seen the movie The Fourth Kind? That was some pretty freaky shit since most of that stuff happened to those people. I'm gullible and don't think the doctor would lie about the research. Shit was definitely going down. AND STONEHENGE? THE LATEST INDIANA JONES MOVIE!? Well the latest indi movie sucked but still, aliens signs exist i bet oo lol spacecoke. | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6639 Posts
On April 27 2010 23:09 meteorskunk wrote: Oh really? Why haven't they blown each other up then? Or are they something like planetary outlaws who have already blown planets and committed genocides? Malevolent towards the inferior beings they encounter (us), not each other :O | ||
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TheRunawayFound
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
On April 28 2010 00:49 QibingZero wrote: Yeah, because a highly advanced intelligent race with the technology to travel such large distances that they'd be able to make physical contact with us couldn't find better ways to get needed resources. They'd certainly rather fight over the small amount we humans haven't already stripped from this planet. Let's never mind that the biosphere is unlikely to one that they could even survive in anyway. It's sad, because even Mass Effect's take on the future of space seems more reasonable than this. It's highly unlikely that any alien race would care about Earth for any other reason than that it also eventually held intelligent life. And in that sense, they'd probably steer clear since despite their likely curiosity, as dealing with a species that can't even get along with their own kind long enough to work toward a greater good seems dangerous and unrewarding. wru Carl Sagan By far the most reasonable post thus far. | ||
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
On April 27 2010 22:24 EntertainMe wrote: IMO, if Alien's are that technologically advanced, able to travel billions lightyears within our life spam, they wouldn't need us in the first place. Also, going by his number theory, even if they are looking for a planet to leech off of, I'm sure there are alot more planet(number theory) like us closer to them or even with more resource. Conclusion, it's interesting, but not worrisome. Like Southlight said, attentions there only because Stephen Hawking said it. Sure, but if they were carbon-based organisms like ourselves and other forms of life on Earth, then it's logical that they would have extra affinity for a world like Earth, which to our current knowledge, is the only place capable of sustaining carbon-based life forms. Too seek out aliens would be like dangling meat in front of a wolf. Also, your usage of the term, "number theory", doesn't make sense. Number theory is a branch of pure maths. Maybe you mean statistical likelihood - although statistics cannot exist for something that is unknown like life on other planets. Therefore, logically speaking, there is no basis to determine whether life exists in other parts of the universe or its nature. | ||
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Ian Ian Ian
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bellweather
United States404 Posts
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Lobotomy
United States300 Posts
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
On April 28 2010 02:39 Ian Ian Ian wrote: Why does everyone always assume aliens are evil :s You're right, stuff like Andromeda Strain are probably mathematically more likely. But that's "boring." | ||
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
he's a brilliant man. our solar system is just 1 in a hundred billion in our leg of the galaxy our galaxy being just one in an infinite amount in our universe to say that we are the only sentient life would be mistaken. | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On April 28 2010 02:39 Ian Ian Ian wrote: Why does everyone always assume aliens are evil :s Because it's generally accepted that the dominant species of a planet is dominant because it learned to exploit resources and other species. Dunno why someone would think that exploitation would stop merely because we can travel in space now. | ||
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