Apr 26
Fabled astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned in a new Discovery Network series last night that humans shouldn’t try and make contact with alien lifeforms.
Like many astronomers before him, Hawking believes there is indeed extraterrestrial life out there somewhere. But given the way humans tend to behave, he said it wouldn’t be a good idea to communicate with them, especially since a given species could be millions of years more advanced than our own society.
For example, Hawking said aliens may have figured out how to capture the energy from a star like our Sun–which we need in tip-top working condition, the last time I checked.
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out so well for the Native Americans,” Hawkings said in the debut episode, which aired at 9 PM EST on the Discovery Channel. (Image credit: Discovery Network)
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