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Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth - Space- msnbc.com

In a nutshell, he says aliens are almost certainly out there but interacting with them would be dangerous....cuz they're probably smarter then us and they'll kill us all for our land.

Is he fucking with us? I guess I believe him, but why do they want our planet? Its already kinda damaged and they haven't used any of the planets around us.....to the extent of my knoweledge. Unless these aliens are the space equivelant of a kid taking out ants with a magnifying glass, I figure they wouldn't bother with us.

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

whether aliens are around or not and whether they'll show up in my lifetime, my guess is as good as anyone's, but his view seems pretty reasonable. that it'd be like columbus discovering the americas, i mean

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Regardless, he's freaking out a lot of people. Initial reaction reading that is OMG!!!11 ALIENS IZ GOING TA KILL MEH!!!!111 Does he think we're about to interact with aliens and he's gotta stop us or is he doing for shiits and giggles (shiggles)?
Or maybe they don't care.

I'm hoping for the eventual annihilation of the human race. I figure we had a good run, but we pretty much suck.

boo boo

You know you don't meant that.

I know I often refer to myself as a misantrhopist, but I don't take it to that extreme.

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I figure they'll kill us all really, really quickly so misery isn't a problem. And all we've done is reproduce and kill each other so I don't have the greatest faith in our species.

Stephen Hawking is a rockstar and a pimp. He probably is just screwing with all y'allz.

boo boo

That's not what I mean.

I think there's enough decent people in the world to warrant mankind's existence.

And the assh*les just make it a little interesting.

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Astronomer

After reading Hawking's original comments, the press have totally blown out of proportion what he was saying to make him look crazy. He was just discussing hypothetical possibilities about life other than on Earth, and proposing hypothetical situations of what might happen if they we did encounter aliens. Now everybody is panicking saying that Stephen Hawking told us aliens are going to come and take over the planet.

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someonecompletelyrandom

I'd say any civilization that advanced would be capable of reasonable thought and wouldn't resort to barbarity. I mean we're screwed as a race but most people in this country recognize what happened to the Native Americans was wrong.

SockPerson

Guys, this is going to be the best movie ever.

LoathsomePete

Knowing Stephen Hawking and his sense of humor he's just taking the piss.

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