Aliens can perceive human society as primitive and insignificant, and attack our planet because of its natural resources
The half-century hunt of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project has not brought a single result. Meanwhile, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking believes that the failure of SETI and others who hope to establish contact with alien life may be for the best: aliens, he says, may not like us.
Hawking's hypothesis in his recently debuted 4-episode television movie on the Discovery Channel caused a huge resonance.
He has long believed that extraterrestrial life exists, at least based on the sheer immensity of the universe. Although much of what is outside of our Earth is just the simplest microbial life, nevertheless, "new" civilizations can actually exist, and in a much more advanced state than our own. However, this does not mean that we will be friends with them.
Oking said, “We need to look at ourselves to understand how intelligent life can become something we don't want to meet. I imagine that they could exist in large ships, having used up all the resources on their home planet. Such advanced aliens may perhaps become nomads interested in conquering and colonizing any planet they may enter”[The Times].
If aliens decide to look at our pale blue dot, then, predicts the famous British disabled scientist, they may come to us not at all in the spirit of peace and understanding, but rather in the spirit with which the Europeans conquered the Native Americans and colonized what is now the United States. These alien wanderers may perceive our human society as primitive and insignificant, and attack our planet for its natural resources, he says.
Although Hawking argues that the contacting that SETI scientists think would be very risky for us, he also considers the possibility that we will never have such a chance, even if advanced civilizations from distant worlds do exist.
“Perhaps they will all blow themselves up right after they find that E = mc². If civilizations need billions of years to develop, and they can disappear, as they say, “overnight,” then, unfortunately, we have no chance of getting any news from them”[MSNBC].
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