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Stephen Hawking: Beware the Space-Vikings!

Apr 27, 2010 10:47

Yesterday's big news was all about Stephen Hawking's warning against seeking out aliens. Why? Because they're likely to turn out to be Space-Vikings intent on stealing our land and pillaging our women! Or something like that.

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It's ripe for speculation... tricstmr April 27 2010, 15:53:49 UTC

.. for while it is true that they would need to know cooperation on a massive scale--it's also probably true that this cooperation was probably massively employed to dominate their own planet and all other species on it to a level that we've not achieved.

So.. are we going to be pets or pests?

Personally--if they show up--and they don't like us.. we're boned. They will just drop rocks on us from space and wait for us to die off.. then colonize and mop up any remaining pesky hairless apes.

Re: It's ripe for speculation... mckitterick April 27 2010, 16:11:33 UTC

I suspect that most ecology-dominating species rose to the top via winning the survival competition game. And the most-intelligent species are usually predators versus gentle herd animals....

yes... tricstmr April 27 2010, 16:25:13 UTC

.. that's my general view..

Overall--I'm surprised/pissed off that we haven't had more honest movies about alien encounters where they just drop rocks ont he planet.

I mean, it seems like a really fucking simple thing to do. You have the technology to travel between stars--but cannot grab 100 ton asteroides and put them in your mass driver???

I call lack-of-imagination-bullshit...

Re: yes... mckitterick April 27 2010, 16:29:51 UTC

The nice thing about this scenario (from an invader's POV) is that the rocks will use up the natives' long-range weapons and slowly degrade their capability for unified resistance.

*is creeped out*

Exactly.. tricstmr April 27 2010, 16:54:36 UTC

.. and, in addition, they can be used strategically to set off various fault lines--thereby causing more initial damage to the pesky hairless apes, while also removing these threats from the invaders worries for a while after they move in....

Re: It's ripe for speculation... mckitterick April 27 2010, 16:12:44 UTC

PS: I am in love with your icon.

haha.. tricstmr April 27 2010, 16:22:08 UTC

yeah.. I forget who I got it from--steal it if you like--it's all about icon love..

Re: haha.. mckitterick April 28 2010, 04:04:52 UTC

Awesome! *mine*

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