Hawking admits to possibility of government UFO coverup

On Friday March 6th, 1998, Professor Stephen Hawking gave a talk at the
White House on a stage with President and Mrs. Clinton in the White
House's Millennium Series entitled "Imagination and Change: Science in
the Next Millennium". 

After comments about the growth of both population and scientific
knowledge, he had this to say....

"Clearly the present exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely. So
what will happen? One possibility is that we wipe ourselves out
completely by some disaster such as a nuclear war. 

"There is a sick joke that the reason we have not been visited by
extra-terrestrials is that when a civilization reaches our stage of
development it becomes unstable and destroys itself.

"Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many
people believe, and the Government is hushing it up. I wouldn't like to
comment on that.

"Personally I believe there is a different explanation why we have not
been contacted, but I won't go into it here.

"However, even without that, there is a very real danger that we will
kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power
to do so. Even if we don't destroy ourselves completely, there is a
possibility that we might descend into a state of brutalism and
barbarity like the opening scene of "Terminator".

The broadcast was carried live on TV on C-Span and questions were
fielded via the Internet.


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