Well, in so many words, famed physicist Stephen Hawking warned last year that we had better raise our Star Trek-like shields. Since we only have Star Trek-like shields in our fiction, we had better go dark, silent and quiet, and quit trying to contact aliens.
From MSNBC, The Dylan Ratigan Show --"British Scientist Conway Morris wrote in a recent article, "If intelligent aliens exist they will look just like us and given our far from glorious history this should give us pause for thought." Stephen Hawking said, "Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads looking to conquer and colonize. (They would enslave us, strip our planet of its resources, so that they could) build more space ships so they could continue moving on."
Before everybody runs down to the gun shop and to the rifle range to get ready in case space aliens show up on ones door step, Dr. Michael Shermer of the Skeptic Society says wait up. If aliens do show up, they probably won't look like us, and might not act like us, and since we are behaving better, that might not be a bad thing, if they do act like us. And the good doctor gets a little Pollyannish, he says that if aliens come to earth, they would be from an "intelligent, educated, sophisticated technological civilization," and they wouldn't be from a "sort of greedy selfish all-consuming all-destructive civilization. that won't get you from planet to planet, " and they wouldn't be behaving like us, so there, don't worry, if ET knocks on your door.
My take on this: We need those StarTrek-like shields.
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