the problem i see is that our religions (all of them) and our govt's and now our top scientists (hawking you disappoint me) are working together to prevent alien contact. but i truly believe there will come a time when they (tptb) can no longer lie to us. the others (et's) will just land in a public place perhaps manhattan ny. for all to see, and i also believe WE are the ones to make this happen. not nasa (need.another.space.agency) i am so tired of waiting for disclosure. lets make disclosure happen. why not brainstorm ideas for contacting aliens. ie what would be needed, what kind of message should be sent etc......

I go with the weight of the evidence being they are here and have been here off and on for thousands of years.

With that assumption in place then one must conclude they are not a threat or as so many people have said "we would be toast already".

I think they are not a threat to us except for one possibility and that is they see us as hopelessly dangerous and decide to simply wipe us out and start over. Given our level of stupidity and propensity for war that could be a real danger.

I see no other reason they would be a threat to us. They obviously have access to unlimited resources and the energy of the universe if they are capable of stopping by to say hello.

I welcome the time when they come out into the open. It might be the catharsis our world needs to stop some of the madness.

it does not matter
there will be no contact

first sorry for my english i try to do my best


we must learn from our mistakes, how long ? the time passe and we learn nothing from history, the same war , the same hate,always the same conflicts betwen people all over the world, we are not evolving anymore,we turn around on and on, what is Evolution ? that is the big question... certainly not the technology or the way we live,humans know a great handicap, BORDERS , we are not united, many says our neighbor are a threat , it's all about money and Economy, the only thing i could say inside our mind our spirit we are already dead...human being must be reconnected... we should stop this arrogance, as soon as possible or like all the others we will vanish.
Alien species could not interact with people like us,they will introduce them self as a species, they will speak in the name of their entire species.But for us ? who will speak in the name of our species ? we don't understand actualy what is a global unity, we think as a race and not as a species, we protect first our country instead protecting our planet, alien could not contact a specific country because eatch one protects these interests... even if they decide to talk to all the races in planet earth maybe a meeting with presidents of eatch country, it could not be possible...can you imagine in the same room USA, NORTH COREA,PALESTINE,ISRAEL,FRENCH,GERMANY,AFGhANISTAN and all the others, all this country making war for oil, weapon and money, i dont think so... what should we do then ?

But in the case those alien are destructive and a threat, it dosen't matter they will annihilate us, the same way as we do for ourselves ...

I don't think we should necessarily trust aliens if we ever did make contact. And I make no promises not to be hostile towards them myself.

Since they are not human, they have no rights under law. And I've really really wanted my own space ship for a long time now. Enough to take one from aliens at gunpoint if necessary.

If I was an alien race I'd avoid us like the plague!

Look at the incredible mess we are now, we are excellent at destruction, can't live together after all these centuries, we still believe in hocus pocus religions and kill each other for what's in your pocket or even just for fun.

We would be just like a virus to their society in whatever way they were, if superior and hostile the clearly would be able to destroy us, if peaceful there would be those of us that attack them or try to use them for power.

We just can't help ourselves either way...

So, yes, I'd give us a wide berth and leave us to fester and fizzle out...

Such a shame, there's lots of us who would love to risk meeting them but simply not enough of us..

We should welcome them.
(I'm pretty sure there has already been alien contact anyways)

I'm not sure why, but I would hate seeing the governement shoot at spacecrafts because they think there is a threat :\

We should fear them they have travelled through space to get to us we haven't even been back to the moon speaks for its self. We like to see are selfs has intellectuals but where just barbarians who wipeout and destroy things if they have been watching us they wont want to make contact theyll just watch us destroy our planet then they will take over it while where fighting amongst our self s .

I can see why Hawkings said it - Humans are the only species we have to base our specualtion on. If the aliens were anything like us, we're screwed. However, we are what we are because of choices, and at any point, the choices could have been made differently, creating a completely different society. So to say that 'we're bad, so aliens must be too' is not the way I'd look at it.

It's quite possible he is right, but I think we should welcome contact. Even if they are fearsom, war-mongerors, they won't do much to us that we're not doing to ourselves already. They way we're going, we're going to destroy ourselves pretty damn fast, so anything that changes that course should be welcomed....arguably. It's possible that a war with aliens would bring Humans together (if only to die ), and if they are friendly, then it can only mean good things for us.

So, for better or worse, I hope they come

I didn't take the time to read everyone's reply but I will take this time to join the debate since I already tried to express why we shouldn't fear the aliens and the thread was closed.

I think with the advancements of technology comes the advancement of consciousness. True it doesn't seem to hold true with us if you think about it but our civilization is young, our technology is still new and we haven't advanced far enough to actually see whether or not this theory works.

As our technology grows we start finding better ways to use it for good. To help take some of the strain off the Earth, to live more efficiently. Right now war drives or advancements and that should change once technology eliminates to needs for war, or even shortages.. Once that is accomplished then you should see technology being used together with nature and for our health. When that time comes then we start changing the way we think and old religions, wars, corruption & greed won't be necessary.

This is why I think advanced beings don't worry about petty things like war as we do in our early stages of development.

On top of all of that, the ancients didn't seem to have a problem with them.

I strongly believe that there are good and bad aliens. If we make contact with the wrong group, yes it could be very bad for us.

However, if we make contact with the right group, they can help us a great deal. They can help us become one race, instead of a very divided one, thus uniting the world. They can show us how to peacefully live on this planet, without killing it again. And, yes, they could show us new tech, but I don't think that would benefit us the most as far as what they can teach us right now. I've said it before and I'll say it again...we cannot go further into space until the planet unites and we become one race.