tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3334755149277349458..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Stephen Hawking - Stay Away from Aliens at All CostsThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12502439072351664392010-08-09T06:36:09.696-07:002010-08-09T06:36:09.696-07:00hawking is a propaganda machine:
http://www.huffin...hawking is a propaganda machine:<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/06/stephen-hawking-to-human_n_673387.html<br /><br />whats it gonna be...??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30893360264326977982010-04-25T21:31:36.022-07:002010-04-25T21:31:36.022-07:00Sorry for the incomplete thought but I meant to ad...Sorry for the incomplete thought but I meant to add that, if they didn't destroy us out of hand, would we be able to resist taking that as a sign of weakness, a trigger to attempt to destroy them? After all our triumphs, we really are a reactionary bunch, no?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77144980969648824762010-04-25T21:29:08.232-07:002010-04-25T21:29:08.232-07:00Hello Lilian and welcome back, it's been a whi...Hello Lilian and welcome back, it's been a while. Yes, I think he does have a point. It certainly seems like poor odds to bet that a superior intelligence, of the sort that might be capable of seeking us out, would be benevolent. 15/85 against, maybe?<br /><br />If they didn't exterminate us physically we probably would find their moral imperative unbearable. After all, hasn't our civilization evolved to respect and obey force, particularly the ruthless variety?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-59013989061630034872010-04-25T20:00:23.558-07:002010-04-25T20:00:23.558-07:00This made me laugh out loud because I've never...This made me laugh out loud because I've never thought of it in that way before. I suppose he's got a point. Anyway we have our work cut out for us on our own planet, trying to avoid one cataclysm or another. Now I'm trying to think of whether there is a different historical example of people encountering another culture for the first time and not messing it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-66757770719714911002010-04-25T18:37:03.462-07:002010-04-25T18:37:03.462-07:00Well, we're all just recycled stardust anyway,...Well, we're all just recycled stardust anyway, aren't we?LMAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74419988882904913062010-04-25T13:32:43.133-07:002010-04-25T13:32:43.133-07:00There's more than a little "do as I say, ...There's more than a little "do as I say, not as I do" element to Hawking's warning. Yes, if we are going to survive as a species beyond the next million or two years we are going to have to transplant our kind to another planet but our survival long enough to acquire the resources and technology to pull that off is a longshot in itself.<br /><br />I read an interesting assessment that held, while it's mathematically certain a universe as large as ours supports a great many intelligent civilizations, it's even more likely that, on their ascendancy, they too tend to engineer their own extinction or fall victim to cataclysmic events beyond their control.<br /><br />This basically depicted a cycle of life from simple amino acids, to single cell creatures, to complex lifeforms to intelligent life to extinction and a return to the building blocks of life, amino acids. Sounds possible to me.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-68973663764868177202010-04-25T11:04:04.253-07:002010-04-25T11:04:04.253-07:00Interesting, since a few years ago Dr. Hawking sai...Interesting, since a few years ago Dr. Hawking said the future of the human race depended on us colonizing other planets to escape natural and man made disasters that could wipe us out. <br /><br />I guess we would have to colonize planets where the life forms were sufficiently weak and vulnerable to us to destroy, like the Bison, or the Passenger Pigeon, etc.<br /><br />Or, maybe the law of the jungle, kill or be killed, doesn't apply to the rest of the universe as it does to the Earth and we are just a primitive lower life form?LMAnoreply@blogger.com