Stephen Hawking Warns Over Making Contact with Aliens

[Peter Lemkin]

No doubt many intelligent life forms are peaceful, but also cautious of those that are not. While we would pose no danger to them [their technology would consider nuclear weapons and lasers, etc. as primitive], they would not likely find human beings as heading in good directions, at best. Other intelligent life forms may be malevolent and would either be into planet mining or species collections for their zoo - even destruction for destruction sake. Were we more peaceful as a Planet and species we would stand a better chance, even if so little evolved technologically. Our best protection, however, are the great distances which, unless they have found ways to bridge them with wormholes in spacetime or faster than light speeds will be our greatest chance of protection. Better to listen for other intelligent life and not purposely broadcast to them. Our TV and radio is headed out at light speed as it is. Their first image of us will be Milton Berl and Cid Ceasar from USA and whatever the equiv. was in other countries.....not great advertising. That would soon be followed by evidence of nuclear tests and use and WWI and WWII. Again not great advertising.