[Heaven] L.A. Times: Scientists Weigh In On Hawking's Alien Warning. Some Agree On Need To Be Careful Seeking Out Intelligent Unknowns
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Times: Scientists Weigh In On
Hawking's
Alien Warning. Some Agree On Need To
Be
Careful Seeking Out Intelligent
Unknowns
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking set off chatter in the scientific community in late April when he posited the existence of intelligent aliens on his new TV series, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" —adding that it would be best for human beings to avoid contact with them. Hawking speculated that such aliens would likely be nomads, living in ships after sucking their own planet dry of resources, and hopping from one interstellar refueling station to the next. Earth, he said, shouldn't do anything to encourage their visit. "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," he said. Hawking has made such statements for years — in a 1996 essay, for example, he said humans should be "wary of answering [aliens]" until our species has become more sophisticated. Though most of the show focused on what alien life — even very primitive alien life — might look like, it was the comment on alien invasion that captured public attention. The Journal of Cosmology compiled responses from a dozen scientists and has published them online. Some criticized Hawking's use of human behavior to predict what aliens would do, but others said that human behavior was a reasonable yardstick. Few, however, questioned the premise of Hawking's statements — that alien life forms probably exist and we are likely someday to encounter them.
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking set off chatter in the scientific community in late April when he posited the existence of intelligent aliens on his new TV series, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" —adding that it would be best for human beings to avoid contact with them. Hawking speculated that such aliens would likely be nomads, living in ships after sucking their own planet dry of resources, and hopping from one interstellar refueling station to the next. Earth, he said, shouldn't do anything to encourage their visit. "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," he said. Hawking has made such statements for years — in a 1996 essay, for example, he said humans should be "wary of answering [aliens]" until our species has become more sophisticated. Though most of the show focused on what alien life — even very primitive alien life — might look like, it was the comment on alien invasion that captured public attention. The Journal of Cosmology compiled responses from a dozen scientists and has published them online. Some criticized Hawking's use of human behavior to predict what aliens would do, but others said that human behavior was a reasonable yardstick. Few, however, questioned the premise of Hawking's statements — that alien life forms probably exist and we are likely someday to encounter them.
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