Stephen Hawking Says Space Aliens Worse Than Italians

[Mrhyde719]

Run time: 02:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhLXAhr2O5M   Posted on YouTube: April 27, 2010 By YouTube Member: travisandjonathan Views on YouTube: 46   Posted on DU: April 27, 2010 By DU Member: Mrhyde719 Views on DU: 1603

 
Its time to become deathly afraid of aliens like Arizona!

[RandomThoughts]

1. All this alien talk is funny, With many good opportunities for humor

Thinking about this, not from scifi stories, but just from trying to make my best method of evaluating as a man with much thought motivating his actions.

I think... how could I tell if they should be listened to?





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Are they cute? or maybe even smoken hot!

yep they are! Sigourney Weaver :loveya:



Picture updated for zing effect.
Other picture.


(zing effect was Newt linkage and guns, and fear in some of the current alien talk, especially since it is hypothetical.)



Note that I do not believe in aliens.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. Did you watch the show on Discovery Science?

What Steven Hawkin was saying there are 200-400 BILLION stars in our galaxy and there are possibly 200-400 BILLION Galaxies in the universe so the chances are extremely high that life exist somewhere out there...Now whether these "aliens" are simply one cell life or complex life or even intelligent life or all of the above who knows.

So, to say there is no chance alien life anywhere in the universe would be an extremely crazy thing to say given the evidence.

However, if one is bound to a Bronze Age world view then life on Earth is all there is...So, why bother even talking about the chance of life anywhere else in the universe because we already know god created all life on Earth as is 6000 years ago! Because the Bible tells me so! End of story!

[jberryhill]

3. Speaking of science...

People thought that earth was the center of the universe. Later, it was thought that the sun was the center of the galaxy. But one thing stays the same - people thinking the world revolves around them.

The light reaching us from the nearest galaxy was emitted shortly after the first proto-human primates emerged. By the time light emitted from there today reaches this part of space, humans will be long gone.

Those 200 billion galaxies with their 200 billion stars are not static, but is a churning and changing mess. Among them, it may be likely that life has arisen many, many times. But thinking that such life will come and find us among the cosmic thicket of a hundred trillion hiding places is simply an updated version of the inflated self importance that once put us at the center of it all.

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. RELATED STORY even with 200 billion stars etc, AZ still voted dumbest in all the galaxies

[SkyDaddy7]

7. I totally agree!

Thanks!

[RandomThoughts]

6. I am not saying that aliens do or do not exist.

I think people have different experiences, and from that they form different beliefs.

[szatmar666]

8. I think the Fermi paradox debunks this idea

It simply says that if it was possible to visit other intelligent civilizations, somebody would have already done it and that civilization would have already contacted us. I would even go 1 step further to say if it was possible in the realm of physics to conquer interstellar distances and colonize the galaxy, we would have been already colonized simply because of the enormous amount off time that elapsed since the big bang and the enormous amount of stars and possible civilizations out there. The fact that we haven't heard of aliens means that either A) they don't exist or B) even if they do the distances are just too large to physically overcome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[SkyDaddy7]

9. "Fermi Paradox"?

Had not heard of this...Or maybe I had just not ringing bells. However, thanks for the link I just scanned over it but I will read it later but I do want to point out from your summary the some of the potential possibilities that were left out.

THESE ARE JUST HYPOTHETICAL as no one knows just how odd things could be so I will let my imagination run wild...

Aliens could be so advanced trying to colonize us would be like trying to colonize ants so why bother. Plus, "colonization" is what we do as humans and we have already learned just how harmful that is to those being colonized so thinking an advanced life would want to do that to us could be a mistake in my opinion although it is a possibility.

Or what if they have already been here and are just monitoring and perhaps doing some studying on us knowing any direct interference could have drastic consequences kinda like our crude attempts not to harm other potential ecosystems when exploring places like Mars or perhaps one day Europa. While we are in the land of "what if"...What do we do with our deep sea submersibles when we see a new life form at the bottom of the ocean or better yet what would we do if we found life on Mars...In both cases we would take one and study it. What if this has already happened here? We discount this scenario for perfectly rational reasons but we also discount this for irrational reasons. The biggest is the shear terror involved if we found out this was true.

If these advanced Aliens can traverse the universe with ease then their technology is thousands of years or perhaps 100's of thousands of years or more ahead of us...If we are able to detect planets light years away right now and not only that determine what said planets atmosphere is like then just imagine how far out these advance life forms are able to peer in search of possible life...And being so advanced they may be able to get around the distance light travels to see us in real time. Not to mention all the activity we are doing that could bring attention to us like Radio and TV however, this only increases our bubble of detection by 100 light years or so.

Again, I was just doing the "what if game" as no one really knows what the truth is. I think many folks discount the possibility of even any life whether it be microscopic to advanced intelligent life for the same reasons folks discount life on Earth evolved...And those who do understand the extremely high odds life must exist out there somewhere tend to discount the potential abilities of an advanced civilization due to our thinking we pretty much know most of what there is to know already...Which we humans have a long track record of doing! So, we tend to think or like to think we know what the advanced Aliens could or could not do and even what they would want or would not want to do. Like when I hear folks say "Why would such an advanced life form even care about visiting us"...This comment really does strike me as very odd coming from scientist and I hear it or read it quite often.

I do understand completely the great pains a scientist has to go through not to be seen as "Wo-Wo" nut...And they are not in the business of doing the "what if" game. I totally understand! However, many scientist today like Michio Kaku are saying things in public they would have never been caught saying just a few decades ago...I think the discovery of planets outside our universe played a huge role in scientist feeling more comfortable hypothesizing about life elsewhere and especially intelligent life. Michio Kaku to me is like the modern day Carl Sagan in a way.

And yes, I do expect some to laugh at some or all of the things I have said here but that just proves my point that we humans tend to jump to conclusions which I went out of my way here not to do. WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF! LOL! It is fun and healthy to open your mind as long as you don't allow your brain to fall out! After all that is what makes good science fiction and today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality!

[Froward69]

5. "We will make great pets"

A song from Porno for Pyros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkmtweNQ-U

seems to sum it all up.