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Stephen Hawking is Afraid of Aliens!!!

Posted 21 months ago|15 comments|737 views
Space Man
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"Greetings Earthlings! We are coming for your precious resources, so stand aside or be blasted by our deathly ray guns and telekinetic power. We would have left you alone were it not for your invasive astrophysicist Stephen Hawking proposing that we were worthy of fear. We simply wanted to humor you and give you reason to watch Harry Connick Jr. and Will Smith team up. Seriously, we had no ill intent, but now that one of our favorite humans has turned, we feel we have no choice. It was bad enough that he postured that we were simply microbial, but now calling us evil as well, that is simply taking it too far. We feel that we really have no choice on the matter. That is unless you can make a deal, like maybe offering Scarlett Johanson as a peace offering. We would just take her, but it is so much more fulfilling to have her offered. We would also settle for Jessica Alba or even Megan Fox. These are our demands of the moment, and we are expecting Hawking to get in contact with us about them. Beware feeble humans."

Transcribed in Anger,
Kronos

This was the incoming message received at 0400 this morning in response to Hawking's "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" special on Discovery. Let it be a testament to the beliefs of other theorists that extraterrestrial life is not only real but friendly. Let us not fear the unknown, but embrace it. The truth is indeed out there, but hopefully not as ill intent as Hawking proposes.

Here is a link to the report: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36769422
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Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
21 months ago: I'm not worried about plundering aliens.

According to Hawking, when the universe (and therefore "time") reaches maximum expansion, it will contract back to it's original singularity, and everything that has happened will be reenacted in reverse. So when it gets the part where the Earth all used up, the aliens will start bringing everything back, and make the planet better and better.

I wonder if we are running in forward or reverse right now.
21 months ago: Hawking is almost as funny as Jonathan Winters. Almost.
21 months ago: Out of the box, Hawking's theory means that the ladies will all eventually be running towards me, instead of running away. For once I hope that the end is near! In this regard, we are definitely moving forward as a whole, and in reverse in my dating life...Damn you space continuim!!!

Mearth is already living in reverse, excellent reference. Too bad the show aged much quicker. Benjamin Button was a gross ripoff, without the egg.
21 months ago: Venus invades Earth?
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
21 months ago: I thought it was odd that Hawkings compared aliens traveling to Earth to Columbus coming to America and brining a host of diseases that the natives had no immunity against. If we were to consider the possibility of an alien having the intellectual sophistication to achieve what's Science Fiction to us - superluminal travel and becoming galactic spacefarers, I would guess the aliens might also be familiar with medical protocols for preventing biological contamination.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
21 months ago: I'm not so sure he is the one making that little box talk these days.
21 months ago: Boxless one, you are one funny guy. Maybe twisted, but funny nonetheless. That should be an X-File.
Markbyrn (sounds like heartburn), your comment reads very differently when you mistake spacefareres for "spacefarters." I guess carrying intergalactic bacteria to another planetary host could be spacefarting in a way, so I'll go with it. No offense on the heartburn comment=)
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
21 months ago: I'm sure I've caused a few cases of heartburn here on Rant Rave .... *TWEET* *TWEET*
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
21 months ago: I agree with Mark. We tend to be anthropocentric and think that everyone else thinks like us(rape, plunder, murder etc.) "Hawking pointed out that humanity has put itself on the edge of its own destruction by creating nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction. If the same holds for intelligent aliens, then they might not last long," he said. "Perhaps they all blow themselves up soon after they discover that E=mc2."

If aliens are smart enough to get past nuclear suicide, or to have kept from destroying their planet with ecocide, and are smart enough to develop faster than light travel, then they would have evolved to be smarter and less violent than us. They would have learned to live in harmony with nature instead of exterminating everything that didn't have domestic uses, so they would probably be benign and might even help us to learn enough to survive.

They would also probably have become vegetarians, since keeping livestock on a spaceship would be prohibitively expensive.
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
21 months ago: ...They would also probably have become vegetarians, since keeping livestock on a spaceship would be prohibitively expensive...

Yeah, I imagine they would probably eat some kind of Soylent Green concoction but it could be replicated into any tasty form you choose.
21 months ago: And terribly smelly, and potentially explosive, even if the methane could be harvested for energy...

I agree about the anthrpocentrism though. Why postulate evil, for evil's sake?
21 months ago: Why would another race of beings be vegetarians? What possible reason would any other race have to leave 2/3 of the edible growing things off their menu? Only someone who thinks that they are superior because of their eating habits would even consider it as the "only logical choice" for another race that has achieved more than what ours has (if they exist and have FTL capability).

I think the best course of action would be to hope like hell they don't consider us and everything else that grows on this planet food and are willing to sample what we consider as food and I hope it's not just a vegetarian that they meet because they are going to be sorely disappointed in what's served.

As for what could be out there being hostile, probably so, many things are not life friendly, but once they have been studied and how to handle them has been learned, they are not dangerous any longer (somewhat). Same with things from space, got to learn how to handle them.
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
21 months ago: Everything tends to be very specialized in what they can eat because of the specialized enzymes they have in their guts. For example Japanese can digest nori much more efficiently than Westerners because they have eaten seafood for hundreds if not thousands of years while it is new to us. we don't have the enzymes, and we probably won't develop them because now all nori used in sushi is pasteurized.

You know how tourists always end up getting the trots when they visit a foreign land? That is because the natives are used to their unique bugs found in their food, while tourists can't handle the bugs that are foreign to their systems.

Can you imagine what a mess eating stuff from a different planet would be. It would probably kill the aliens. Remember how Europeans wiped out 90% of the Native Americans by spreading small pox and other diseases that the indigenous populations were not immune to? The same would be a thousand times worse with an alien species.

I agree with Mark that an alien species would eat something like Soylent Green, or more logically like Quorn which is a mycoprotein that is a form of fungus you can grow in a vat and then turn into a lot of different types of artificial meat. See: http://www.quorn.us/About-Us/

It would be easy to grow this in a space ship along with greens and other vegies. I think aliens would be vegetarians because if they had evolved to a higher order, they would consider eating intelligent animals with feelings, much like we consider cannibalism or eating our pets.

Thus far humans have been able to stomach eating their fellow creatures mainly out of ignorance. They tell themselves that those lobster don't really feel pain as they are being boiled alive, and that animals really don't mind being eaten just because they are not as smart as us.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
21 months ago: Eat? What is this "eat" that you puny humans are referring to? Now step over here and allow me to absorb your chemo-electric energy through my highly evolved, specialized tendrils. We have muted your sense of pain and fear with our superior ability to communicate, and you will eagerly line up to give us what we need.

Wha'? Who? Who wrote that? I blanked out for a second.
21 months ago: Blasted mind control, they must be close!

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