Hawking is saying nothing new here. People are paying attention because he's a celebrity. Besides popularising science, has he actually made any real contributions to the field?

Originally posted by Zippey
Hawking is saying nothing new here. People are paying attention because he's a celebrity. Besides popularising science, has he actually made any real contributions to the field?

How about Hawking Radiation, Black Body radiation, and the idea that black holes give off mass and will eventually evaporate.

This thread has gotten so silly. But I hope amusing and stimulating for most reading it, at least. : )

The reason I say silly is because passionate debates about what ET life would be like, how much ET life is out there, and whether or not they've interacted with our planet really tend to dead end...because at the end of the day, it's like an ant trying to empathize with humans or even an animal just a bit up the food chain from them - it's impossible! For all we know, the universe is TEEMING with life... we know that we've discovered traces of life and potential for life ALREADY (without mastering space travel, we only just got into it) in our solar system ALONE, so for all we know there's a wealth of alien species out there and maybe they're covertly here right now. Or maybe we're IT! Maybe we're the only living beings in the galaxy. Either scenario is mind-blowing.

All I'll say is this - history WILL tell us that we humans got a ton wrong, as far as physics and space and time travel go. This is really a budding field, as what used to be isolated to science fiction and imagination is for the first time being really tested in labs (think CERN, etc). We've only been first-person to the moon! That ANYONE thinks they've got anything in this realm figured out, or that ANYONE would rule out any possibility at this point in time... is silly. Imagine away, that's what the Great Unknown is for. I seriously wouldn't be surprsied, though, if one day everyone grows up with knowledge of other ET life in our solar system/universe and look back on today as infantile "remember when people thought they were the only life in outer space? we're part of a galactic empire right now! haha, what were they thinking!" just as we make fun of those who thought the Earth was flat. Our early EARTHLY explorers had no idea what more there was to discover, and in fact it wasn't so long ago (relatively, at the grand cosmic scale) our geography was totally different - pangea.

It's almost a certainty that the craziest ideas today will be the standard ones of tomorrow.

That's all I have to say about this for now. : ) Continue....

WE are ET.

Originally posted by banishedfromthisarea
WE are ET.

We don't fit here.

Originally posted by banishedfromthisarea

Originally posted by banishedfromthisarea
WE are ET.

We don't fit here.

You're right, we don't belong here. IF our species were from here then we shouldn't get sick. Now that's not to say that man made viruses wouldn't.We get allergies, some people are allergic to just about anything, but as for the rest of us, we're allergic to something.

I agree that Steven Hawkings is just preparing for the worst outcome and there isn't much thought put into what he said. But he does have a valid point. We don't know what's out there and what it wants. We must prepare for every eventuality. What if aliens haven't found us yet but are looking for us. We don't know what their motives are or what they want. I say wait for advanced civilizations to find us or develope the technology to fight off any invaders.

Also aliens have contacted earth. The NSA itself admitted it. Go to www.paranormaldailynews.com Find the article and use the link to get to the full article and download the PDF. I'm sure that the government would love for someone to decipher the message so that they'll be able to understand what they're saying if this message is forewarning for an invasion or something. I'll share all my findings when I can make my own posts so keep an eye out for it.

i don't know but i thing Stephen Hawking could be working hand on hand with the power elites or he could be used, manipulate to raise an Alien attack fear

I agree partly with Stephen Hawking not to contact other Alien beings. I mean look at us! Look at the different species we share in this world. We share about approx. 8.7 million Species on this single planet. All of the living thing's goal is the same it's to Survive and flourish... That means all species are hostile as predicted because all living things wants to survivability and expansion of the race.

If human beings in this present time is hungry for resources. So hungry in fact they fight each other to get a piece of the pie to survive. How much more the other Sentient beings that roam around the universe with the same state in mind.

I think he makes a good point.

Someone mentioned that an alien race which can travel lightyears across galaxies would not need our resources as they'd have some form of free energy. I'm inclined to disagree. We use resources for more than just energy. We also need resources for building and creating things... In their case maybe more ships, weapons, technology of some sort? And as well as that they may need food supplies of some form. Or perhaps they seek to experiment and test what our planet is like? There is no way to really tell. But, I wouldn't be so quick to throw away Stephen Hawkings' theories.

Don't worry, the Time Cops will stop them. Or Stephen will just fly out in his totally unretarded magic wheelchair equipped with afterburners, Stingers and Hellfire missiles and that Death Ray that Kaku invented using his Super Duper Stringy Theory of Absolutely Everything.

*rolls eyes*