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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
Pat Flannery wrote:
Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_551035.html Any alien species that can build starships to get to Earth can probably figure out how to mine raw materials for their civilization from more nearby stars and planets that are uninhabited rather than coming here to obliterate humanity and take over Earth...unless, of course, their intention is to EAT US...what do YOU know that the American public doesn't know, Professor Hawking? Are the aliens coming here to EAT US? "Yes" or "No" Hawking? Flash the Captain Pike light once or twice so we will know the answer. Pat They are coming here to exterminate the cancer that is eating the planet. These gems are rare. -- LSMFT I'm trying to think but nothing happens......... |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies!:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_551035.html Any alien species that can build starships to get to Earth can probably figure out how to mine raw materials for their civilization from more nearby stars and planets that are uninhabited rather than coming here to obliterate humanity and take over Earth...unless, of course, their intention is to EAT US...what do YOU know that the American public doesn't know, Professor Hawking? Are the aliens coming here to EAT US? "Yes" or "No" Hawking? Flash the Captain Pike light once or twice so we will know the answer. Pat |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
Perhaps Dr. Hawking's entombed brain has been
imprisoned for so long in an emaciated shell of a hybrid cybernetic infrastructure that his lonely, cosmologically-mathematical myopic mindgland can no longer remember a vital state of being prior to hyper- vulnerability to the ravages of time/space symbolized as a highly sophisticated form of predation? Or, maybe, like Dr. John Lilly's isolation tanks in conjunction with experiments with LSD and Ketamine, his mind has intercepted vast arrays of extraterrestrial cognitive probes without form eliciting a great fear? ~o0-O-0o~ We, Borg Speculations on Hive Minds as a Posthuman State http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Pos...ty/WeBorg.html by Anders Sandberg The designers of our species set out to produce a being that might be capable of an order of mentality higher than their own. The only possibility of doing so lay in planning a great increase in brain organisation. But they knew that the brain of an individual human being could not safely be allowed to exceed a certain weight. They therefore sought to produce the new order of mentality in a system of distinct and specialised brains held in "telepathic" unity by means of ethereal radiation. Material brains were to be capable of becoming on some occasions mere nodes in a system of radiation which itself should then constitute the physical basis of a single mind. Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men Hive minds where the individual is subsumed into a collective consciousness has been a recurring idea in science fiction since Olaf Stapledon's influential novels Last and First Men (1931) and Star Maker (1937), although the concept in some sense had been suggested by Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes (1651). They have often in western science fiction been used as an allegory for communism or the anonymity of industrial civilisation, and have usually been portrayed in a terrifying light (Nicholls 1982). The latest such portrayal is the Borg in Star Trek: the Next Generation: a race of bionically augmented humanoids linked together into a collective mind, striving to assimilate every other intelligent species into the Collective. [...] http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Pos...ty/WeBorg.html ~o0-O-0o~ [ See also: "SATBOT I: Prototype of a Biomorphic Autonomous Spacecraft" http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/satbot00.htm and... C y b r i d i z a t i o n http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/sectoid2.htm ] |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
On 4/25/2010 5:25 PM, LSMFT wrote:
They are coming here to exterminate the cancer that is eating the planet. These gems are rare. God-Damn Daleks! Well, The Doctor will kick their little metal asses once again. I just watched the "aliens" episode of that Hawking show on The Discovery Channel, and the end ideas are straight out of "Independence Day" as evil aliens use the power of a star's total energy output to form a wormhole and descend on Earth. Either they are here to eat us, or use their filthy tentacles to sexually molest innocent Japanese girls, as is often these space creature's wont. The vacuum cleaner headed creatures shown climbing up the alien cliff are interesting, particularly when you realize that their center of mass is so far from the cliff face that rear claws or not, they will fall off of the cliff as soon as they detach their suction-cup mouth from it. ....a suction-cup mouth that seems peculiarly well designed for sexually molesting innocent Japanese girls. ;-) Pat |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
BUT ..... but .... but .... Is HAWKING himself an alien?
http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/C...ed3p.widec.jpg -------------- "Stay home ET. UK scientist: Aliens may pose risks" The Associated Press Monday, April 26, 2010; 7:42 AM LONDON -- British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist, but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky." The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." He speculates most extraterrestrial life will be similar to microbes, or small animals - but adds advanced lifeforms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize." The Discovery Channel said Sunday it will broadcast "Stephen Hawking's Universe" in Britain next month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=artslot |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
On Apr 26, 12:45 pm, John Fartlington Pysnagel
wrote: BUT ..... but .... but .... Is HAWKING himself an alien? http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/C...0214/070214_ha... -------------- "Stay home ET. UK scientist: Aliens may pose risks" The Associated Press Monday, April 26, 2010; 7:42 AM LONDON -- British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist, but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky." The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." He speculates most extraterrestrial life will be similar to microbes, or small animals - but adds advanced lifeforms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize." The Discovery Channel said Sunday it will broadcast "Stephen Hawking's Universe" in Britain next month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...10/04/26/AR201... Are we just realizing now..that aliens won't be anything like us and could pose a danger to earthlings? Where have we been all this time? |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:39:32 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote: Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_551035.html Any alien species that can build starships to get to Earth can probably figure out how to mine raw materials for their civilization from more nearby stars and planets that are uninhabited rather than coming here to obliterate humanity and take over Earth...unless, of course, their intention is to EAT US...what do YOU know that the American public doesn't know, Professor Hawking? Are the aliens coming here to EAT US? Just goes to show that even the illustrious Dr. Hawking isn't immune from projecting human values onto non-human entities... |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
On 4/26/2010 2:20 PM, Len Lekx wrote:
Just goes to show that even the illustrious Dr. Hawking isn't immune from projecting human values onto non-human entities... The series looks kind of pathetic...in the show about wormholes and time travel he explained time dilation at near-light velocities as if it was some bold new concept that no one watching the show would have ever heard of before. Frankly, if it weren't for the fact that he is completely paralyzed, I doubt that anyone would pay anywhere as much attention to him as they do. Of course after The Stephen Hawking Show ended, who should arrive in the next program up but everyone's _other_ favorite sage on everything scientific, Michio Kaku. I blame Carl Sagan for getting this whole "Mr. Science Expert" ball rolling. Pat |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
"OutreZoneD" wrote in message ... Perhaps Dr. Hawking's entombed brain has been imprisoned for so long in an emaciated shell of a hybrid cybernetic infrastructure that his lonely, cosmologically-mathematical myopic mindgland can no longer remember a vital state of being prior to hyper- vulnerability to the ravages of time/space symbolized as a highly sophisticated form of predation? He's suffers from the same condition that plagues most of the scientific community. Which is excessive Faith! The faith that somehow, someday or someone will find a way to travel faster than light. Which is every bit the pipe-dream as having dinner with God. Or, maybe, like Dr. John Lilly's isolation tanks in conjunction with experiments with LSD and Ketamine, his mind has intercepted vast arrays of extraterrestrial cognitive probes without form eliciting a great fear? ~o0-O-0o~ You've argued yourself narrow! Hawking fails to take into account a simple fact of life. Which is that life is not a fluke, it evolves just as soon as possible, as soon as it can. One would think that 'fact' means we should be visited, but what it really means is that we are probably among the first wave of intelligent life all coevolving around similar time frames. So 'they' are probably out there, but probably waiting for ...us to visit them. Combine the coevolutionary character of life with the distances, and it just isn't reasonable to expect any contact at all, even though the universe is, and will be, teeming with life. There is no contradiction. Recent discoveries in dark matter and dark energy support this view. As dark energy was almost nonexistent before life on Earth evolved. Dark matter emerged just as the universe became dominated by matter, about the same time as our solar system and life formed. So the question should be asked, what's the relationship between dark energy and biological evolution? Both are emergent system properties. Like a market force, for instance. The force or tendency exists, we know it does yet it's ethereal in nature, and has no tangible existence. Emergent system properties guide the whole towards increasing order, they are responsible for all creation, yet cannot be seen, measured or touched. Hmm, what's another word for something like that? s We, Borg Speculations on Hive Minds as a Posthuman State http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Pos...ty/WeBorg.html by Anders Sandberg The designers of our species set out to produce a being that might be capable of an order of mentality higher than their own. The only possibility of doing so lay in planning a great increase in brain organisation. But they knew that the brain of an individual human being could not safely be allowed to exceed a certain weight. They therefore sought to produce the new order of mentality in a system of distinct and specialised brains held in "telepathic" unity by means of ethereal radiation. Material brains were to be capable of becoming on some occasions mere nodes in a system of radiation which itself should then constitute the physical basis of a single mind. Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men Hive minds where the individual is subsumed into a collective consciousness has been a recurring idea in science fiction since Olaf Stapledon's influential novels Last and First Men (1931) and Star Maker (1937), although the concept in some sense had been suggested by Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes (1651). They have often in western science fiction been used as an allegory for communism or the anonymity of industrial civilisation, and have usually been portrayed in a terrifying light (Nicholls 1982). The latest such portrayal is the Borg in Star Trek: the Next Generation: a race of bionically augmented humanoids linked together into a collective mind, striving to assimilate every other intelligent species into the Collective. [...] http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Pos...ty/WeBorg.html ~o0-O-0o~ [ See also: "SATBOT I: Prototype of a Biomorphic Autonomous Spacecraft" http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/satbot00.htm and... C y b r i d i z a t i o n http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/sectoid2.htm ] |
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Stephen Hawking: Beware The Aliens!
Pat Flannery writes:
I blame Carl Sagan for getting this whole "Mr. Science Expert" ball rolling. I blame Don Herbert and Leonard Nimoy.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Herbert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy Peace and long life, live long and better electrically. At least that's how its stored in my memory.... ;-) Dave |
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