04-30-2010, 12:15 PM
I'm sure many of you have noticed there has been some buzz in the news about aliens.
Stephen Hawking has a new documentary series in which he theorizes about intelligent alien life (working from the mainstream idea that we haven't had any contact of course). I found his ideas on the matter a little disappointing. His overall message is that we should not try and advertise our existence in the universe because aliens would probably be hostile towards us:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/sc...107207.ece
The up side is that people are thinking about aliens at all, I guess (?)
Almost in balance of this was a very inspiring talk by a SETI scientist at TED that I found last night:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/20/ta...index.html
I don't know if this sort of media buzz is in any way related to UFO disclosure or other news. One can hope!
Stephen Hawking has a new documentary series in which he theorizes about intelligent alien life (working from the mainstream idea that we haven't had any contact of course). I found his ideas on the matter a little disappointing. His overall message is that we should not try and advertise our existence in the universe because aliens would probably be hostile towards us:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/sc...107207.ece
The up side is that people are thinking about aliens at all, I guess (?)
Almost in balance of this was a very inspiring talk by a SETI scientist at TED that I found last night:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/20/ta...index.html
I don't know if this sort of media buzz is in any way related to UFO disclosure or other news. One can hope!