Hawking on search for ET

www.bbc.co.uk...

I did a search but it didn't come up with this already being posted. Interested in your views

a reply to: MrCrow

How about sharing YOUR views on your own thread?

Meh...it will end up like all the other searches.....nothing found. This one just has Hawking's name in the story. Likely that is the only reason the story is even in the paper. Everyone else involved is a nobody, media wise.

Already covered by yours truly...

www.abovetopsecret.com...

a reply to: MrCrow

i'm close to putting hawkings into the class of which way the money blows. he doesn't know if he's coming or going.

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet," Hawking said. "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 colonize whatever planets they can reach.”

Hawking said an attack by interstellar predators is just one of the dismaying possibilities in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Another possibility is that intelligence itself might be inimical to life. Hawking pointed out that humanity has put itself on the edge of its own destruction by creating nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.

"If the same holds for intelligent aliens, then they might not last long," he said. "Perhaps they all blow themselves up soon after they discover that E=mc2. If civilizations take billions of years to evolve, only to vanish virtually overnight, then sadly we've next to no chance of hearing from them."

he has said this on more than one occasion.

Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth Astrophysicist says extraterrestrials likely exist, but could be dangerous

a reply to: paraphi

two different forum, this is allowed on ATS

a reply to: paraphi

Oops - sorry!

Please add comments here in the previously posted topic.

Thanks and closing