Following is a news article from Great Britain that was pointed out to me by
a friend. It concerns Stephen Hawking's views on alien life forms, including
intelligent alien life.

As I point out once again in the new article that I've been working on, it
is indeed sad that so many people today -- including a growing number of
scientists -- are willing to accept the existence of intelligent alien life,
yet at the same time, they reject the existence of God their Creator.

I will concur with Hawking though, that if any intelligent species exist out
there, and if they ever visited us here on Earth, they would obviously be
considerably more advanced than we are. After all, we certainly don't
possess the knowledge or the means yet to send spaceships full of humans
even to the outer edges of our own Solar System, and much less to some
distant planetary system.

So, if such a race were to visit us, and if they were evil, we certainly
wouldn't stand a chance, because they would obviously possess advanced
technology which we can only dream of.


Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

Jonathan Leake - timesonline.co.uk

April 25, 2010


THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according
to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost
certain to exist -- but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be
doing all it that can to avoid any contact.

The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of
the world's leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of
the universe's greatest mysteries.

Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts
of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or
even floating in interplanetary space.

Hawking's logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he
points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions
of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where
life has evolved.

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens
perfectly rational," he said. "The real challenge is to work out
what aliens
might actually be like."

The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of
microbes or simple animals -- the sort of life that has dominated Earth for
most of its history.

One scene in his documentary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of
two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked
off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators. Another shows glowing
fluorescent aquatic animals forming vast shoals in the oceans thought to
underlie the thick ice coating Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter.

Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious
point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking
believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.

He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then
move on: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life
might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. 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 colonise whatever planets they can reach."

He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is "a little too
risky". He said: "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome
would be much
as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out
very well for the Native Americans."

The completion of the documentary marks a triumph for Hawking, now 68, who
is paralysed by motor neurone disease and has very limited powers of
communication. The project took him and his producers three years, during
which he insisted on rewriting large chunks of the script and checking the
filming.

John Smithson, executive producer for Discovery, said: "He wanted to make a
programme that was entertaining for a general audience as well as scientific
and that's a tough job, given the complexity of the ideas involved."

Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views
have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the
discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars,
showing that planets are a common phenomenon.

So far, all the new planets found have been far larger than Earth, but only
because the telescopes used to detect them are not sensitive enough to
detect Earth-sized bodies at such distances.

Another breakthrough is the discovery that life on Earth has proven able to
colonise its most extreme environments. If life can survive and evolve
there, scientists reason, then perhaps nowhere is out of bounds.

Hawking's belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his
recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed
the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as
likely places to look.

Similarly, Lord Rees, the astronomer royal, warned in a lecture earlier this
year that aliens might prove to be beyond human understanding.

"I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't
conceive," he said. "Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory,
it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our
brains."

Stephen Hawking's Universe begins on the Discovery Channel on Sunday May 9
at 9pm.



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