Hawking: Aliens Will Come Conquer Earth, Colonize It… and exploit the Hell Out Of It!
Hawking: Aliens Will Come Conquer Earth, Colonize It… and exploit the Hell Out Of It! Stephen Hawking thinks that extra-terrestrial contact might be a bad thing for planet Earth. Following NASA’s breakthrough announcement about the discovery of incredibly promising exoplanets which might be home to intelligent forms of extra-terrestrial life, one might have expected the renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to have met the news with happiness. After all, Hawking is heavily involved in the Breakthrough Listen project which is one of the most dynamic and progressive projects searching the universe for intelligent life. However, Hawking has a much gloomier view of the possibility of interaction with extra-terrestrials than one might expect. Speaking to the Discovery Channel in 2010, Hawking said that it was likely that advanced aliens would probably be a nomadic race who would travel the universe conquering and colonize whatever planets they encountered. “If so, i...