Stephen Hawking: Aliens are out there, likely to be Bad News
You can read the entire article here. This is what he said:
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational… If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet, he argues. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.
I am not sure I agree with that. After all, they may just be explorers and not necessarily looking to conquer anything. I am sure that part of human space travel and space science has to do with looking for planets we could colonize if we ever need to, but it isn’t the only reason. Of course, we could also assume that if they have massive ships that can travel to earth they would likely be more evolved than we are. However, we are more evolved now than when Columbus first landed in the new world, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t have agendas and that we wouldn’t conquer a planet if we needed it and had the resources to do so. Technological evolution wouldn’t necessarily make a race more peaceful. In fact, it is possible that the more primitive the race the more peaceful they are. After all, if you have to grow and/or hunt all your food, construct your own shelter and make most of your things — you probably don’t have much time or energy to think a lot about conquering, at least not on a large scale.
Lots of people would say they are already visiting and haven’t conquered the planet yet. I am not certain that ETs are visiting, but having seen UFOs myself, it is a possibility.
Really I don’t totally agree or totally disagree, it is all just guessing. So far as guessing intentions, I am not sure Hawking’s opinion is any better than anyone else.
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Apr 26 2010 
April 27th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
“I am not sure Hawking’s opinion is any better than anyone else”
Nor is it any worse, it is just another not very well thought out opinion. Why do people assume that advanced aliens would think and act like we would think and act? They wouldn’t be very advanced if they did think and act like us, would they? Of course not. Is it because people hope and wish advanced aliens are think and act like us? Well let’s think about that…
One of Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction was that, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, therefore wouldn’t a species intelligent enough to be around long enough to learn to traverse light years of space, be advanced enough to not have issues with resources, and would appear to us to find all the resources they need elsewhere as if by “magic”?
I once read somewhere that, “An organism that thinks only in themes of its own survival will invariably destroy its environment and, as we are learning from bitter experience, will thus destroy itself”, therefore wouldn’t a species intelligent enough to be around long enough to learn to traverse light years of space, be advanced enough to have learned to not destroy itself and it’s environment?
In the 1999 blockbuster movie, The Matrix, Agent Smith remarks to Morpheus that he, “would like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet, instinctively develops an equilibrium with it’s surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet; you are a plague and we are the cure”, therefore wouldn’t a species intelligent enough to be around long enough to learn to traverse light years of space be advanced enough to not have any need to spread to another part of the galaxy like a plague?
We, not aliens, are the people with a problem with overusing resources, lacking self-control to limit our overpopulation, so continue spreading over the face of the Earth like an unchecked plague, destroying our environment in the process? What people have been talking about in regards to advanced aliens are the things we humans would do if we could travel through light-years space, but that doesn’t imply everyone else in the universe thinks like we do. In fact, I believe that kind of thinking will ensure that we never make that step.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Two thumbs up to that comment, Sage —specially because it mentioned The Matrix