Sunday, April 25, 2010

Stephen Hawking + Aliens

World renowned scientist Stephen Hawking believes extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists -- and humans should be extremely cautious about interacting with it.

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," Hawking says in a new Discovery Channel series called Stephen Hawking's Universe. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

More here and here.

2 comments:

Aimee Racine said...

Aliens... so all of that sci fi watching will come into good use in the future. Woot woot.

Kimmy Law said...

I totally agree with Hawking. Why would we assume alien life would be nice to us? Our explorers weren't nice to the people they encountered!