This  afternoon, the Internet is buzzing with feedback from Professor Stephen Hawking's interview with The Times of London about his new series for the Discovery Channel, that will begin this May, and that looks at the certainty of intelligent alien life, and how the discovery of and the visitation by space aliens  could effect us humans.

Professor Hawking says that he believes space aliens exist, and he warns us that contact with space aliens might not go so well for the human race. Mainly, because we are not as smart as a lot of us think we are. We don't have the science and the technology to withstand a military challenge from an advance species, and if we are smart, we will keep our heads tucked in, and hope that no aliens will come calling, and we should quit trying to contact them. The good professor reasons, that, if aliens think and act anything like us, we could be like the American Indians to Columbus, enslaved by higher technology and exploited by a stronger armed force. Following his reasoning, it seems as if he is suggesting that, we had better go space silent, until some time in the future, when we are able to compete. His reasoning is a good case for stepping up our research and spending on improving our technology.