Holy Cow - how far out is this?:-):-):-)

From The Sunday Times April 25, 2010

Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7107207.ece
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lol. Interesting. I'd like to watch his show, even if I can't talk to the aliens
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He does have a valid point. Historically speaking the more advanced/powerful have always taken the resources of the weaker. Be it human or material resources.
In our 50+ years of space flight we have managed to send men to our moon and probes past our planets. Another life form that would have the technology to visit us would therefore be the more advanced/powerful and therefore able to take what ever resource they please if they desired.
And to think that we are the only life forms is naive. Even if the number of less than 1% is used to calculate - they do exist somewhere. Maybe though we are the more advanced - who knows.


Ron
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Spent any time at www.peopleofwalmart.com lately Ron? you may want to rethink that.
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so if you were the writer of "Independece Day," are you thinking "holy sh!t, I'm as smart as Hawking, and I put this theory out there years earlier!"
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If you look at the way we treat species "lower" than us (we eat them, experiment on them, keep them as pets, exterminate them as pests, etc.), he has a good point.
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Another wack job..
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*I* talk to aliens. Heck, I'll talk to illegal aliens.
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Sounds very reasonable imperical thought.
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I hope aliens like cigars
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Looks like a good series. I too also hope they enjoy tobacco, maybe I can barter myself some cool stuff.
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I've been saying that there's got to be other life forms out there for years, how come no one pays me millions to say it on a TV show? O'well, I'll just go back to work tomorrow and make nothing.
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Lol probably cuz this guy is a super genius.
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No, No, No, that cant be it. Well maybe.
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I saw a show on ancient structures like Giza and Machu Pichu and whether there was alien intervention in their creation. So many questions on how they made them and that we would be hard pressed to replicate them with our "modern" construction methods.
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.......bingo!! :-)
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:-)
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How do you know that I'm not? I just don't like to let everyone know because people will be constantly asking me if there are aliens!!!
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You're kidding right? Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientific minds in history.
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I don't... that would mean that we'd have to share.
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