Stephen Hawking Warns Against Contacting Aliens

    • Publish Date: Sep 24 2016 11:20AM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 26 2016 9:43AM
Stephen Hawking Warns Against Contacting Aliens

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned against announcing our presence to any alien civilisations, especially to those more technologically advanced than humans. 

Our first contact from an advanced civilisation could be equivalent to when Native Americans first encountered Christopher Columbus and things "didn't turn out so well", Hawking said in a new online film. The film, "Stephen Hawking's Favourite Places", takes viewers to five significant locations across the cosmos, on his spacecraft - the SS Hawking.

In the film, Hawking performs a hypothetical flyby of Gliese 832c, a potentially habitable exoplanet located 16 light years away. "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back," he said adding that "They will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria." "As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone. After a lifetime of wondering, I am helping to lead a new global effort to find out," he was quoted as saying by 'The Guardian.' It is not the first time Hawking has warned about the prospect of hostile aliens. Launching the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life, last year Hawking had suggested that any civilisation reading our messages could be billions of years ahead of humans. "The Breakthrough Listen project will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life, but I know just the place to start looking," he said, in the film that appeared on the online platform Curiosity Stream. - PTI

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Vikash kumar K V (MORN.)(R.K.PURAM)

Yes I believe change can Star from single or group because when I will start then people will join us today everyone thinks that if someone is not doing then why I am so if I will start then other will start

Rajathariga S P AECS MAGNOLIA MARUTHI PUB SCH

I completely agree with him. There is no knowing the dangers that can be brought upon us by the alien species.

Vishnu Varthan J Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Hawkins comment is right. It is not the first time Hawking has warned about the prospect of hostile aliens.

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