Cryptids: Stephen Hawking’s Alien Invasion Theory

I don’t know why, but when I read the “Look, Zagbar! Specimen Aamoth is writing a ‘blog post’ about us…” part, the aliens had russian accent… puzzling…

what if,… they treat us even worse than how English treated native Americans, how about aliens treat human beings just like how we treat cows, pigs and chicken – to bread and then to eat the meat!!?

Yeah, we make a pretty plentiful source of food – China might be in trouble. And water – plenty of that. Planet is also habitable, though not necessarily for an alien.

No actual evidence of aliens, though, so the point is moot. Might want to read The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, where he theorizes quite a bit on the probability of whether aliens exist or not.

I disagree that a lack of physical evidence of aliens makes the point moot. Either way, between macbooks, the common cold, and water, I think we have nothing to fear

“If the Universe has been here for 15 billion years, and the Milky Way has been here for 10 billion years, and Earth has been here for 5 billion years, that’s plenty of time for life to have arisen all over the place. And, once it HAS arisen, it’s only a matter of technological advances until some society is capable of interstellar flight. And thereafter it’s only a matter of time — which we have in abundance — until some race takes over the entire galaxy. So where are they all?”

That’s Fermi’s Paradox, 1st articulated by the famous physicist Enrico Fermi (creator of the 1st sustained nuclear fission reaction) back in the early 1950s. Nobody had an answer then. Nobody has a definitive answer now. Science fiction, however, is riddled with POSSIBLE answers, of which the foregoing is simply a smattering.

Among the others:
 • All civilizations are doomed to destroy themselves before achieving space flight.
 • They’ve all uploaded themselves into computers where they can live forever.
 • Black holes are sentient, and their favorite food is brainwaves.
 • Earth is in quarantine until we’re sufficiently mature.
 • All life is an illusion.
 • The Bible is right: humanity is a special creation of God, and all those quintillions of stars and billions of years were just wastage and useless byproducts.

And so on. The problem with trying to generalize about living ecosystems is that we’ve only got 1 data point (Earth), and you can draw an infinite number of lines thru it.

Perhaps it’s just not worth the trouble? The closer you get to the galactic center (a safe distance away from the mega-black hole, of course), the older the stars are, and the denser advanced civilizations are likely to be due to the greater amount of time they’ve had to develop. If their NASA has developed interstellar travel, which mission is their government going to fund? “Well, we can go two hundred nineteen lightyears due West and meet up with this planet that’s about as advanced as we are, or we can go a few thousand lightyears and meet up with some apes that have been broadcasting shlock like this *shows clip of Gilligan’s Island* for a few decades.”

The mega black hole at the galactic core may be hugely massive (along the lines of hundreds of thousands of solar masses), but spatially it’s not very large at all. It’s a black hole; by definition, it’s squinched down to almost a point.

Speculations about where civilizations are likely to be located in the galaxy are the old “Goldilocks Zone” of planetary orbits writ large. Venus, Earth, and Mars are in the Sun’s Goldilocks Zone, neither too close to the Sun (too hot) nor too far away (too cold).

Same deal on the galactic scale. Too close to the densely star-packed core and your incipient life forms get fried by supernovae about every million years and so never get a serious foothold. Too far out near the rim, and there’s not enuf heavy elements (created within those self-same supernovae), particularly carbon, to enable the formation of a large number of complex molecules. The Sun and Earth sit just off a galactic arm about half-way out from the core, in the Milky Way’s Goldilocks Zone.

All of this, of course, is based on the extremely tenuous predicate that, by “life”, we mean something kind of like us.

billions of galaxies.
billions of solar systems in those galaxies.
Possibility of intelligent life forms definitely on
Human being are one species , but still so much of difference (loss of life and resources).
There would be no co-relation between extra terrestial life form and us (human species could be considered as ants , as we consider ants as ants)
possibility high of hostile intelligent life forms (Dr. Hawkings hypothises looks good)

Yeah, believe there has to be anything smarter than humans out there. Wish Hawkings spent more time on what’s really stranger than fiction or nonfiction: Certain humans prophetic ability via writing/published works. Example? An oldie, but relevant work by Stephen King. Wrote horror stories, but how do some write eerily futuristic, as in, “The Dead Zone.”? Dare anyone view original (not the series), circa 1982 & not see depiction of Bush Jr. era. Part Martin Sheen played as prez, practically mirrored Jr.’s sczhioid 2 terms. Much needed research on aforementioned earthly ability is long overdue. Who knows? Alien assistance/connection perhaps?

Could aliens just be viruses? I mean there the only thing thats beating us in evloution is a virus. Every year were scared sh*tless by a virus for example: Swine flu, Avion flu, Ebola, Hanta, and thousands more. Like the theory of dino’s dying by a metor more probable it was a virus.

On the note of Aliens increasing our technology what happens if we are an aliens creation and or GOD is aliens. We could just be a big experiment for Aliens to see what we do in this enviroment. Dinosaurs could have been the experiment before us… Because maybe dinosaurs didnt recive thinking fast enough and using tools.

Also, they could be waiting to see what we will do when there are two senient beings and how it will work. Like chimpanzees. We taught some of them sign language (see DR. Fouts).
OR There was another animal before us that TAUGHT us stuff like we are doing with the Chimpanzees but they died out/killed them selves before us.

well theirs my buck o’ five.

“I’m not here to argue against what Hawking said. He’s a famous scientist, I’m just a guy with a keyboard.”

I have come to believe that Hawking is just a guy with a keyboard that is really good at math.
I like your breakdown of theories. Hawking has gotten to the point of saying “I thought it, and nothing I can find disputes it, therefore it is fact!”
Pfffft.