The Aliens are Coming! (PS)

Life on other planets, does it exist? I do not know, and really am not very focused on the possibility. However, when I came across an article featuring Stephen Hawking warning if life does exist elsewhere in the universe humans should be a little worried, I thought it would be an interesting topic to blog about. Basically, Dr. Hawking was portraying aliens to be similar to humans in their way of thinking of gathering resources. He likened any possible encounter with aliens to Christopher Columbus coming to the “New World.” Except this time, the natives are everything on Earth. I mean that could make sense assuming that these aliens moved in a similar development of society. However, I am not completely convinced of this view (or with the existence of aliens.) Anyway, if aliens have achieved a level of ability that would give them the capability to travel throughout the universe I think that they would have matured along with their technology. This is because having such power means the destructive abilities of such a race would have been first turned upon themselves. That is of course assuming, like Dr. Hawking, that their social development would be like the history of man. The only reason weapons of mass destruction are made is to wage war upon our own race, thus any advanced aliens would have had to go through a stage of extremely destructive warfare, and after such a war in which neither side would have emerged as the victor there would probably be a maturing in society towards a peaceful way of living together. Thus, through peaceful efforts they would achieve their super-advanced status. Hence, instead of exploring space in a nomadic fashion looking for resources, as Dr. Hawking explains in the TV show Into the Universe, the aliens would have learned to be good stewards of their world, and would explore space for more civil reasons. A couple of these motives for space travel could be seeking other life to commune with, cultivating new life on planets showing promising signs, and the exhilaration of exploration. I mean, “To go where no ‘alien’ has gone before.”

I found it interesting that an earlier article talks about Dr. Hawking giving another opinion about life in the universe. Essentially, he was saying that if life does exist elsewhere in the universe most likely it is primitive. To be more exact, he was saying that primitive life is more abundant than intelligent, because such is the example we perceive here on Earth. Of course, I do not really think it matters too much. The thing about any theories of extraterrestrial life is they cannot be taken much further from the theory stage at this point in time.

If you want to know more about Stephen Hawking he has an official website. I checked it out because of my interest of finding out more of his ideas, and there was some interesting information. However, for the most part I think Dr. Hawking and I have some different perspectives on the fundamental workings of the universe. Though, he certainly has better credentials and experience than myself, but even so I think it is possible to go an entire lifetime asking and answering the wrong questions.