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Stephen Hawking Just Issued a Chilling Warning to Scientists Searching for Alien Life
Stephen Hawking is known for offering insightful and often scary commentary on the universe and technology. The world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist has cautioned against rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, humans exploiting and destroying Earth, and Donald Trump becoming one of the most powerful men on the planet.
Now, he’s warning scientists and humanity in general against becoming too friendly with alien life.
Hawking hosts a show called “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places” on the science-themed subscription service, CuriosityStream. During the half-hour broadcast,CNET explains, he “flies by the potentially habitable exoplanet Gliese 832c in a CGI spaceship as part of his hypothetical dream itinerary for a tour of the universe.”
Hawking intends to scan Gliese 832c for signs of intelligent life using powerful radio telescopes, which he is using in a new $100 million project with Mark Zuckerberg and internet investor Yuri Milner. They intend to determine whether they can successfully send a “swarm of tiny spacecraft, each weighing far less than an ounce, to the Alpha Centauri star system” in search of intelligent life, the Toronto Sunreported in April.
On his show, Stephen Hawking explains that if intelligent life has evolved on Gliese 832c, which is 16 light-years away from Earth, his radio telescopes should be able to detect it.
However, he warns, “One day we might receive a signal from a planet like this, but we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”
Hawkings has made this comparison before and regularly presents analogies between intelligent alien life and colonialism, though his suggestion we avoid communicating with them appears to be new. Last year, while arguing it’s mathematically likely aliens exist in the universe, he said:
“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”
In 2010, he suggested they might be eager to control other planets:
“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.”
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Source: http://truthisscary.com/2016/09/stephen-hawking-just-issued-a-chilling-warning-to-scientists-searching-for-alien-life/
On thee event of sumthing like this, all weapon systems and physics would be scanned prior to invasion.
We NEED Stephen Hawking to
SAVE Us!! 1st, STOP the war
with Russia & WW3, so you
can send those tiny spaceships
to Alpha Centuri..
…Yeah!
Hahahaha Stephen Hawking said so. Hahahahahahaha!!! The dude can’t talk. Oh you mean you believe that a computer can read his thoughts and speak for him? ROFL! Only an idiot would believe that crap. Stephen Hawking is an invalid. A vegetable.
Just unkind comment ! No need for that ————————–
Said in the upmost gentlemanly way possible !
Good day to you sir !
Enjoy the path you tread ???
Come on with your telescopes, alien will laugh at you. Learn telepathy and you can communicate with them. They are all around us, we just need to open our mind eyes to communicate with them.
Just what century did he say this in??? He has been warning about meeting aliens with superior technology forever.