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Some of the morning newspapers report Stephen Hawking’s warning that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist but that we should avoid encouraging any contact with them.
‘To my mathematical brain,’ he says, ‘the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like’. He adds that trying to make contact with alien races is ‘a little too risky’ and that ‘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.’
That’s a very sobering thought for a Monday morning!
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Some of the morning newspapers report Stephen Hawking’s warning that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist but that we should avoid encouraging any contact with them.
‘To my mathematical brain,’ he says, ‘the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like’. He adds that trying to make contact with alien races is ‘a little too risky’ and that ‘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.’
That’s a very sobering thought for a Monday morning!
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