I would say, lets try to make it through our technological adolescence without killing ourselves first before worrying about making contact with extraterrestrial life. I am sure any sentient alien life that has come here, or has observed us in the past century would come to the conclusion that we are an aggressive species and would either one observe us with caution or two come in with guns a blazing. Having traveled the distance from their world to ours, they would have time to prepare.
there are 3 possible outcomes of the active search scenerio-1) we are the very first species to emerge with relatively high technology. 2) communication would be between our world and their world with distances anywhere from dozens to tens of thousands of light years and hence that amount of time between receipt of each others broadcasts and any travel, thus time to prepaire. 3) their ships are already in our solar system making the 'but they might be hostile if we reach out' fear a moot point.
It is nearly impossible to tell whether any alien species would be hostile or not, or what they would aim to gain if they ever visited us or we visited them. There is no telling whether, if we visited their planet, they would attack us outright or give us a chance. Heck, we don't know how we would react if they visited US. These things are entirely dependent on the species, how that species has evolved to survive, and the societal views of the individuals who decide to make the trip.
There's nothing on earth that an advanced alien race would want or could get elsewhere. The most important resource for them would be energy, not gold or iron or oil (which itself is a very crude & primitive energy source). They would rather build a Dyson sphere around a large star of an uninhabited solar system than waste time bothering with humans.
There is an important distinction here.. Sagan never intended to speak back to aliens, only see if there was anything to intercept from an alien society. I completely support SETI and wish there were more supporters. I dont think we are ready to have interplanetary relations, but we might as well listen in the case that we do find something out there just to humble this planet.
In the video "thats what she said" he said he would have attempt to break the pogo stick record on july 2nd this video was posed on july 6th no mention on the pogo sticks tho dan is a fail
Why do so many people think that if we ever find ETs, they'll be smarter than a cereal box. Really, life moves towards survival, adaptation... not sapience. We are only the luckiest of coincidences.
We won't find extraterrestrial life outside the solar system through any other means than radio communication. And if we pick up those signals, that means that civilization was capable of such a scientific feat when it was sent, which could have been thousands of years ago. By now, if they still exist, are much more advanced than humanity is at the present moment.
@3rkid2 Your suppositions are correct, but only for the near future and presupposes the existence of sapient life other than ourselves. I find it more feasible that we might find ways to travel FTL or near light-speed, and with the aid of any planet surveying technology we might know where there is life by analyzing some chemical cycles, without they being sapient.
As Neil degrasse Tyson said, our biggest fear when coming to ETs is that they'll treat us the same way that we'd treat lower ETs. We would probably grab them, throw them on a table, disect them, then put them on display in zoos. We fear that they'd do the same.
This reminds me of that episode of the twilight zone where the aliens come and clain to help the earth and ends up eating the humans lmao. you never know, there can be bad aliens and good aliens, just like theres good humans and bad one, but i agree that it would be better to find them first and make some form of alliance than to be found and possibly have our resources taken and killed lmao because if they see us as defenceless, theres no way they wouldnt try to take us out
Looking at it from a religious view, there are no aliens. God put only humans in this universe, nothing more. At the very most, all we would find that are "aliens" would just be a new type of bacteria that can survive in space... somehow...
Very interesting topic, there is too much to be said to fit it in a single comment, but Ill try to short it down a lot, I dont think we should try to avoid contact with extra terrestrials, but if well be the ones who is able to contact them, I think we should very much proceed with caution.
What I actually think would be the most likely outcome of human/alien contact though is that they (and possibly we) would die from expoture to bacteria that their/our immune defence system cant to deal with
I bet the aliens would see Earth, watch it from afar for a bit, do some science, then leave.
So let's try to make contact.
A wise man once said, "Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired."
Fermi Paradox comes to mind. It's possible that the circumstances in which life on earth was created were so unique that life doesn't exist elsewhere...
If intelligent extra terrestrial life exists, which it probably does, then chances are that they know of our existence. They could be watching us develop as a society. If they were hostile, then they would have already taken the Earth's resources for themselves. I believe that they are the latter. That we are being watched. I also believe that they have come to Earth in the past, and that some of them may be walking among us, disguised as humans.
I belive that aliens do exist. do I belive they will kill us all? not unless we are the agressor or the need a new planet since their planet is dead. I do infact belive that we humans mostly will reject them and think they are bad almost instantly because of all the movies about them that We made. I'm not saying that they will be friendly, I'm just saying that we as a planet need to be open and tolerent if they do vist.
Well one thing's for sure, if they wanted to destroy us; it wouldn't be anywhere close to the movies. It's probably not going to be machine guns vs lasers but more like, sponges vs missiles. But to keep us from exploring the universe is to say no to human nature. To say no to our curiosity, if we do die at least it would be better then to die unknowing.
you should watch "curiosity" on the discovery channel, i think on friday, they're making an episode where they discuss this exact same thing. cool show...
I figure that whatever we would do is probably what aliens would do. We are programmed for false-positive responses to potential danger so... gotta go with Hawking on this. I would probably try to be nice to them and everything but I think the general population wouldn't take kindly to their arrival.
What if the "Aliens" are far less technologically advanced than us? We find them? What do we do if they need out help for whatever reason? Don't do us down, we are pretty technologically advanced at the moment.
There are plenty of planets in the galaxy without life for aliens to harvest. I don't think they will want to unnecessarily face us to harvest our planet. So I think we should search for alien intelligence.
Ah, but you must remember Dan, it takes 3 days for the suns light and heat to reach our planet. It takes months and years approaching to ions for us to see anything outside of our galaxy. So how would they know we're here?
why would aliens capuable of interstellar travel want our resources?
People need to realise that there is nothing special about Earth. Any resources found on Earth are also found everywhere else in the solar system and galaxy.
Unless ofcourse they're looking for oil... but in that case we would win... cus let's face it - we love the stuff.
Here is the one thing that we might have over other Planets, we are as a people fighters, we never stop, we never will stop, and we are very very good at it. That being said they still would probably kill or take over us. Also you need to look at this for a disease point of view as well. Who knows what they might give us or what we might give them.
When it comes to foreign visitors. Be welcoming, but cautious. Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
I do agree however it would work out like War of the Worlds or Avatar. The technologically dominant race would see humans as either as slaves like in African colonization, vermin like in Latin American colonization or perhaps meat like you said.
Or they could just be the most friendly group of beings we meet. I would hope so.
I would however be careful of any foreign extraterrestial race.
Life in general is about risk taking, the potential benefits from engaging contact with an alien species as advanced or more advanced than us far outweighs the potential risks.
I am guessing that alien lifeforms have a special regard for sentient species. But obviously as you said no guarantee. Though if they have a thirst for knowledge as we do I would fully expect them to do little other than aid our Earthly conflicts for the sake of both species.
By the time we are able to discover an alien race advanced enough to travel the galaxy with powerful armies and weapons, they will have almost certainly been aware of our existence for a pretty long time so I would love the prospect of finding and alien race out there.
Killing chickens and pigs? Yes.. Yes there is. There is something wrong with that. But then I guess we shouldn't expect other species to be violent towards us as long as we are doing the same in our own back yard.
If aliens with intergalactic travel technology came to earth with hostile intent it wouldn't be a case of machine guns versus lasers, it would be more like sponges versus nukes. Their technology would be far beyond anything we can even imagine at this point thus they would be able to eradicate us without even trying.
Personally I believe aliens will leave us alone for the thought that they wouldn't need our resources, we can't stand on their technological plateau, and they have nothing to gain.
I think being a save pessimist is the best option here, because we as humans shouldn't be going all "let's search for some aliens", while we have our own planet to save.
The future water supply, trying not to shoot each other with nuclear weapons, just because some jerk wants all the oil/water/space that is left somewhere, the greenhouse effect, animal species dying out. You know. There's plenty to worry about already.
& looking around trying to find a "new earth" to live on would just be mean.
I'm pretty sure if an alien race has the ability to travel intergalactic (able to travel within our own galaxy) space they probably have the technology to make there own water at will, seeing how hydrogen and oxygen are some of the most abandonment elements out there, so they wont be here for just water, If its for food i'm sure they know how to grow and harvest food correctly and efficiently that they wouldn't have to eat us or steal ours...
Fearing aliens is just the human nature of fearing the unknown. I was unaware of Hawking's say in this debate and I'm kind of surprised that such an intelligent person would succumb to such basic instincts.
I'm with Sagan on this one.
I've never disagreed with him, what a beautiful human.
@danasmana I agree with you on that, even Paul Hellyer and Steven Greer can't believe that Hawking would think that these aliens would harm us like what we see in movies and read in books. I would have expected someone like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell to say something like that, but not Stephen Hawking. Also if he needs proof about aliens he should talk to Jesse Marcel Jr. whose father was at Roswell. Because Marcel is the surviving witness to see the wreckage his father brought home.
The Stephen Hawking scenario assumes that aliens act like we do, and the fact is that they will be alien, or to put it another way foreign, or to put it another way, who the hell knows how they think/act. so in the unlikely scenario that an intelligent species goes to the trouble of dealing with our violent species I say.......... coin toss?
If aliens come here do you really think they would be here to help us and then go back? The answer is highly no. If you had traveled to at livable area and found people there that didn't want you there would you help them or leave or kill them? Also, if aliens visited us do you think they wouldn't even want Earth? We have destroyed it to a point a no return for our species lifespan, so would they really want Earth. All there is to say is that aliens came here, we are basically screwed.
well i think that, um if aliens where hostile wouldent they have, like "eaten" us a long time ago i mean just search up aliens there are so much evidence around. like in pictures of mary THERE WERE SOUCERS IN THE PICTURE and the plauge the people decribed ghostly beings that hade axes of darkness.
It is probably very unlikely that they will spot us humans since light only travels by the speed of light. It can't travel any faster than that so if the ''aliens'' are lets say 10 million light years away from us that they will the our earth how it used to be 10 million years ago. Or if they are even further away they won't even see the earth because it didn't exict yet.
I think that the odds of earth being the most safe planet that has the resources that it has, (Hydrogen, Oxygen, ect.) are extremely slim with the supposedly infinitely large expanse of space. I believe that the aliens would find a planet without any dangerous life, or at least less dangerous life, before taking earth, and as earth's main selling point is the water, we would see the loss of water on other celestial bodies such as moons with water on them.
Interesting a. We as the USA had a law on the books to address part of this issue when we where just heading out into space which has been repealed, SETI is hibernated due to LACK OF FUNDS or we do know and don't want to listen to the SCREAMS anymore from other worlds being colonized, Consistently the Hollywood machine has been very NEGATIVE aka Independence day, Battle Field: LA, etc, China / Wang Sichao seem to have a clear head on this
Aliens why would they be smarter then us.. Look at all the other creature's we know.. There isnt any animal smarter then we are.. So I think it is more posible that we'll be the visitors..
Well, first of all, I think we humans have a lot of shit to sort out before we go looking for life outside of earth. (Poverty, starvation, war, etc.) Once we can get our act together, I think the idea of making contact with new life if really exciting. I absolutely think we should be risk-taking optimists. I think we could learn a lot from our galactic neighbors about technology, and biology, and the origin of the universe. Hopefully in centuries to come,
What should we do, if aliens came here and said: "So ok, our calculations proove that your life on Earth will last only for 1000 years from this point on. If we help you by giving you some technology and advices, can we eat you all after 10 000 years?
Go for it and try to improve upon the tech and kill the aliens around the 10,000 year mark. Then we could probably stretch another 1000 years out of the new tech.
I think that we should not go for this. We (speaking as the human race) have enough problems as it is and do not need another thing on our plate. It would be cool to see the alien race but not now. Plus adding the nukes could end up being harmful to the world. The alien race may not even exist and we may be wasting time and resources and for a fairy tale idea!
what if the only protection in the long run against an "evil'(towards us) alien civ would be a stronger alien civ? and how could we imagine a way to hide ourselves from a higly more advanced alien civ?(possibly millions of years ahead of us...) i guess the only thing we could hope is that "good ones" will find us first, and shield us from others. Either we try to contact them or not might be as bad as it might be good.However we cant expect to see aliens react as we do for they are not humans.
@wangabo123 indeed! and we could even go further : while movies almost have a good ending, they win the war, or they save the planet from evil things or some terrorists, in the real life however, irak, afganistan, vietnam... 9.11 ... i guess it's comforting to see that they do better in movies. however in War of the worlds, it's no the humans who solve the problem (but it's weird the alien are such fools that they forget about being contaminated on earth, but hey, its a movie, we must win ^^)
Consider the following. When the original settlers came to the United States many many years ago, they brought with them diseases that the natives had no form of resistance to because their bodies had never encountered such strains of virus before.
If life from another planet were to come to Earth, or vice versa, this would impose a great risk of unleashing strains of bacterium into both species which neither one will have any form of protection against.
@Yarukaru You are right, we have several strains of really dangerous bateria, if these bacteria or viruses adapt to infect these beings they may no be able to handle it.
Hawking´s right! Life seeks survival at all costs. If we make contact we´ll just be saying Hey here we are! Move in for the kill.. After they understand our technology and how to control the masses we will have the only purpose of serving them as Slavs nothing else. What other possible use can they give to us?? After there done with that why not eliminate the race so that it does not pose a threat to there species? Just as Hawking´s sad... We must start colonizing... the faster the better!
@TheVladimirtk i would agree but in the end even if we develop on 200 solar systems, if the specie which we'll encounter first is already far more advanced than us today, it will still be far more advanced in one million year, if they want us eradicated for some reason, expanding will just by us time. Our actions may have no use at all, we depend more on how more they will react to us, than how we react to them. i think we are fools to think we could make a difference(yet we shall try so anyway)
why is everyone worrying about this? we rarely engage in active searches for extra terrestrials. And the ones we have sent weren't very well thought out, they probably won't be coherent by the time an alien receives them. And, by the time the messages travel to an effective distance we will probably have destroyed ourselves. Hawking makes a good point, but the media usage of this story is just sensationalism. And that includes Dan Brown.
I just think that the idea of assuming they would in any way resemble humans, both physically and psychologically is ridiculous. So looking at this subject in terms of "what would we do" is inconsequential, since they will invariably not be human and not share ANY of our though processes, tendencies or moralities.
So basically, there's no evidence to show that we would even be ABLE to interact with them, and if that is the case, why would they feel the need to try to communicate with us? They would simply see us the way we see a cow. They would take whatever we have that is useful to them and think nothing of it.
I personally like Neil Tyson's take on this, that since humans and apes are only 1% different in DNA (that 1% representing almost everything we have accomplished as a race), imagine what a race 1% different from us in the other direction would be like, how much their intelligence would dwarf ours. I don't know the odds of meeting a race that is essentially 100% similar genetically to ours, but I'll be willing to bet they're not high.
While the risk of being blown up by aliens is a scary idea, the alternate is to sit on our planet, ignorant of the rest of our universe and still assuming that we are the only intelligent life in the universe, that, to me, is much scarier idea than death.
both. we as humans don't seek out other life, then the anti-evolutionists win. we as humans seek out other life, than District 9 shit goes down where either the other life are the aliens in the movie...OR District 9 shit goes down where humans are the aliens.
If aliens visit us we're screwed! Look no further than planet earth and what happened to the indigenous people of Australia and America when aliens with advanced technology arrived. I would prefer to be the visitor than the visited.
@MightBeAWin The simple fact that they could make the journey to us. Look at the ships of the 1600's and how far advanced they were compared to dug out canoes of the natives. Maybe I'm prejudging the visitors and expecting them to be of human nature. All i know is we will be at their mercy.
@diestar1 Right, i said I was prejudging the visitors by expecting them to have human nature..... However, that does not really matter. If they get here then they are using technology way beyond what we currently use and yes, we will be at their mercy for good or bad.
Thinking about the speed of light and the length humankind has existed on earth...our presence actually hasn't had much opportunity to be seen from very far away! Taking all things into account, avoiding contact is far and away the safest idea: if we avoid contact and they are friendly, we lose nothing. If they are hostile, we might get wiped out. I'd take the safer route!
Well if we contacted them first and they are hostile and offensive (as in they strike before we do) then that means their technology isn't too developed, because they would have already attacked us. If so, that means we could so tale them on in a war. And if they are more advanced than us technologically, then they didn't strike so we can assume they are peaceful, or at leas t won't strike until we do.
I don't think it really matter what either one thinks. Humans, in nature, are curious and take lots of risks. However, we're also logical thinkers. This means that if the risk:reward ratio is leaning in our favor, humans will explore, take risks, and/ or contact extraterrestrials. As for, whether Hawking or Sagan is right, there's only one way to find out. But whether take that one way is completely up to us.
Any alien species able to travel interstellar distances would either have a biology so different from ours that the time needed to travel between stars is of little consequence to them, or possess technology so far ahead of ours that we would seem to them like monkeys banging coconuts. If the latter is the case, they are probably already here, and we are just too stupid to notice. If the first is the case, they would just have to wait long enough for us to go extinct before taking over the world
Wow, this really is one of the most interessting topic. I mostly agree with Carl Sagan on this topic. I many different reasons. One of the reasons is that the aliens we would most likely meet first would be the sientists of the alien world. They would rather come to know us and observe us than kill us. But lets also not forget that aliens proabebely like humans have different karacters. Some would mabey like to help us while others would kill us. I will make a video responce about this.
okay, um in regard to one comment you made (maybe i'm selling our weapons technology too short), no, you arent. There was a special presented on the science channel or history channel detailing the plan america has already prepared in the case of a hostile extra-terrestrial contact situation. Scientists hace figured something out, if any aliens had the tech to travel to earth from wherever they come from, their shielding tech would have to be strong enough to withstand 10 million times...
...the force of a nuke. Yes, just to make the trip over here, they have to have defensive tech that can easily brush aside anything we can throw at them. Another problem we would encounter: their flight maneuvering capabilities would be far beyond our own simply because of how advanced their tech would have to be, once again, just to make the trip to earth. Our only slightly effective weapon would be the publicly known, secret, experimental rail gun, which is still sucky compared to alien tech.
both have their pros and cons and there will be no solution until some kind of real contact has happened where we can come to an ultimate conclusion of what we are to do. Considering the law of nature spiecies normally do not accept other species but there are exceptions to this! So I'd have to say If we know which aliens don't want to harm us then lets be friends and the ones who do get a damn 22 caliber! or something to blow them away with
I think I'll compare this issue to terrorism and how it has been viewed upon in modern society. Most people think that there'll be a terrorist attack sometime again. That doesn't mean they don't live their lives. You COULD dig a hole and forget the world OR you could actually take the risk of getting blown up or die from pollution and live a good life. I think the question of searching out alien life will be like that to most people sometime in the future. We won't be able not to do it.
I think that we should be neither pessimists nor optimists but cautious neutralists because there is a 50-50 probability that any and all alien lifeforms could be violent, peaceful, or a mixture of both. However as to whether or not we should seek them out my thoughts are that we should because the rewards far outway the risks, if we could get our hands on a piece of alien technology that could help humanity survive I'm all for it.
We could not put up a fight. If they were able to traverse the galaxy they'd be moving at near light speeds. energy is mass times velocity squared, anything moving that fast has a lot of energy. They would just accelerate a hunk of metal to near light speed, launch it into the earth, and watch us be destroyed. Its a relativistic-kill-vehicle.
The bad aliens would be a Luciferian civilization, and good aliens would be a civilization of Yahweh. They are at war with each other, so I guess both Hawking and Sagan are correct.
I think it needs to be a 'best of both worlds' deal. We definitely need to explore our solar system and those that surround us. The earth is dying very slowly, and we need to expand if we want to survive. However, we need to make sure that we treat any life that we find out there with respect. The motto I live by is "assume the worst, hope for the best". If we assume that the aliens are hostile we will be armed against it, but if we hope they're friendly we will be open to communication.
Personally I'd like to meet aliens if they exist and yes there's a risk in that they might be violent towards us, but here's the thing, there's a risk in meeting new people daily. We as humans are violent towards each other and kill each other. Even if aliens do exist, and the ones we meet are violent, who's to say that that's how it is with that race? Not all humans are violent, so why judge an entire race of aliens based on the actions of a few.
This is probably my favorite topic from your recent videos. Realistically, humans are genetically curious. We always have been and will always will be. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence could be like opening "Pandora's Box". On the other hand, we could be missing out on the greatest discovery of mankind. I enjoy the idea that the future is similar to Mass Effect (a game that takes a realistic glimpse if human were to make contact with aliens). But I rather play it safe for now.
We could make an antimatter bomb. Then we would have at least SOME formidable force against them.
A last resort, or a warning shot? If they're so advanced, they would have multitudes of antimatter weaponry. Which means that all weaponry we have is most likely useless. I think, if we do find alien life, we OBSERVE before we ACT. If they seem like a friendly race, we can TRY to communicate. It may be worthless though. Their language would almost indefinitely be different, and their number system
If aliens DO come here, if they aren't here already, according to the masses that report sightings and such, I don't think that they would be 'nice' OR bloodthirsty killers and such. I think they may be curious, or maybe, as Michio Kaku says, we could be so below them that to them, we're like ants are to us.
Would we go to a colony of ants and give them a computer? Or even a pen..? No. And if they ARE violent.. We are working on gathering masses of antimatter. If we were to produce enough...
Hmmm... Maybe aliens won't attack us because we are wicked violent. There is the possibility that humans would rather destroy the Earth ourselves than to allow aliens to take it over. In other words, face nuclear holocaust just to get them away from Earth. Besides, humanity is not too far from launching nuclear holocaust against itself.
Like Stephen said. If they know we exist they prolly view us like we view a colony of ants. I don't see humans trying to communicate with ants to show them we exist and share our technology. Ants aren't very important in our life, I doubt we are important in theirs
We have to look at history. In nearly every situation where one group meets an inferior group (example: europeans moving to america) they conquer the inferior people. This can be seen in billions of places in history. WWII, spanish influence with aztecs, europeans in the west indies, etc. If we met up with more advanced aliens, they would have no reason to assist us, and would most likely be hostile. Everyone who disagrees is just dreaming in a world they would like to see, instead of reality.
Certainly they won't give up their resources for us. And whatever we have that their planet doesn't have, they must already know how to produce the substance. So, in conclusion, I don't think any advanced races are gonna be helping us out anytime soon.
Well, You mentioned that aliens could possibly help us out if they have more sophisticated technology but, if you really think about it, why would they. If they do have more advanced technology then us, then they must know that we are here, which probably means that they don't give a hoot. Plus, they are probably going through their own problems that they can't figure out how to solve. Even if they help us out, they are going to want something in return. CONTINUED IN NEXT COMMENT /\
This is quite a simple question to answer. Evolution as we know it, essentially comes from survival of the fittest. This means that violent behaviour is programmed right into us. We have no reason to assume that it is not programmed into every successful civilization. Not only that, but if any alien races know we exist, and can get here, then our nukes won't do anything to them. We would be at their mercy.
They wouldn't waste the energy to raid earth as every system is rich with resources so why wipe out a civilization for a nearly depleted planet? Just my thought though
Nice Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy reference.
SuperPacman87channel 1 day ago
FUCK THEM BOTH! MICHIO KAKU FTW!
luisr12491 1 week ago
I would say, lets try to make it through our technological adolescence without killing ourselves first before worrying about making contact with extraterrestrial life. I am sure any sentient alien life that has come here, or has observed us in the past century would come to the conclusion that we are an aggressive species and would either one observe us with caution or two come in with guns a blazing. Having traveled the distance from their world to ours, they would have time to prepare.
Izrok23 2 weeks ago
there are 3 possible outcomes of the active search scenerio-1) we are the very first species to emerge with relatively high technology. 2) communication would be between our world and their world with distances anywhere from dozens to tens of thousands of light years and hence that amount of time between receipt of each others broadcasts and any travel, thus time to prepaire. 3) their ships are already in our solar system making the 'but they might be hostile if we reach out' fear a moot point.
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I largely agree with superamuro1. Most likely, if they are anything like us, and alien species would value energy above all else.
machinabutterfly 2 months ago
It is nearly impossible to tell whether any alien species would be hostile or not, or what they would aim to gain if they ever visited us or we visited them. There is no telling whether, if we visited their planet, they would attack us outright or give us a chance. Heck, we don't know how we would react if they visited US. These things are entirely dependent on the species, how that species has evolved to survive, and the societal views of the individuals who decide to make the trip.
machinabutterfly 2 months ago
There's nothing on earth that an advanced alien race would want or could get elsewhere. The most important resource for them would be energy, not gold or iron or oil (which itself is a very crude & primitive energy source). They would rather build a Dyson sphere around a large star of an uninhabited solar system than waste time bothering with humans.
superamuro1 2 months ago
Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe fan?
ZoZoStudios 3 months ago
There is an important distinction here.. Sagan never intended to speak back to aliens, only see if there was anything to intercept from an alien society. I completely support SETI and wish there were more supporters. I dont think we are ready to have interplanetary relations, but we might as well listen in the case that we do find something out there just to humble this planet.
DaBluedude100 3 months ago
they've been here.. maybe, they just left or just hiding on the skirts of dark matters.. because they are intelligent.
RalphAdriane 4 months ago
In the video "thats what she said" he said he would have attempt to break the pogo stick record on july 2nd this video was posed on july 6th no mention on the pogo sticks tho dan is a fail
ThurminMurmin69 4 months ago
Orion slave girl.
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RavenRP 4 months ago
Why do so many people think that if we ever find ETs, they'll be smarter than a cereal box. Really, life moves towards survival, adaptation... not sapience. We are only the luckiest of coincidences.
SREproducciones 4 months ago
@SREproducciones
We won't find extraterrestrial life outside the solar system through any other means than radio communication. And if we pick up those signals, that means that civilization was capable of such a scientific feat when it was sent, which could have been thousands of years ago. By now, if they still exist, are much more advanced than humanity is at the present moment.
3rkid2 4 months ago
@3rkid2 Your suppositions are correct, but only for the near future and presupposes the existence of sapient life other than ourselves. I find it more feasible that we might find ways to travel FTL or near light-speed, and with the aid of any planet surveying technology we might know where there is life by analyzing some chemical cycles, without they being sapient.
SREproducciones 4 months ago
@SREproducciones Don't you mean sentience?
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
@kingpiccolo101 Yeah...
SREproducciones 1 month ago
As Neil degrasse Tyson said, our biggest fear when coming to ETs is that they'll treat us the same way that we'd treat lower ETs. We would probably grab them, throw them on a table, disect them, then put them on display in zoos. We fear that they'd do the same.
flyersphan111 5 months ago
This reminds me of that episode of the twilight zone where the aliens come and clain to help the earth and ends up eating the humans lmao. you never know, there can be bad aliens and good aliens, just like theres good humans and bad one, but i agree that it would be better to find them first and make some form of alliance than to be found and possibly have our resources taken and killed lmao because if they see us as defenceless, theres no way they wouldnt try to take us out
FrankiePhoenix 5 months ago
Looking at it from a religious view, there are no aliens. God put only humans in this universe, nothing more. At the very most, all we would find that are "aliens" would just be a new type of bacteria that can survive in space... somehow...
jedisponge16 5 months ago
Very interesting topic, there is too much to be said to fit it in a single comment, but Ill try to short it down a lot, I dont think we should try to avoid contact with extra terrestrials, but if well be the ones who is able to contact them, I think we should very much proceed with caution.
What I actually think would be the most likely outcome of human/alien contact though is that they (and possibly we) would die from expoture to bacteria that their/our immune defence system cant to deal with
DabIMON 6 months ago
I vote we should meet them and hope that they are ether nice or have crap for weapons. :/
Bigjaw146 6 months ago
what would the aliens want from our planet what they can't get from dead worlds? Hawking is talking out of his butthole
Retlaww 6 months ago
I bet the aliens would see Earth, watch it from afar for a bit, do some science, then leave.
So let's try to make contact.
A wise man once said, "Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired."
berniebay 6 months ago 8
@berniebay No quotations? If you don't address portal, imma gonna slap you.
Steve0II 6 months ago
Fermi Paradox comes to mind. It's possible that the circumstances in which life on earth was created were so unique that life doesn't exist elsewhere...
Hokieson1 6 months ago
If intelligent extra terrestrial life exists, which it probably does, then chances are that they know of our existence. They could be watching us develop as a society. If they were hostile, then they would have already taken the Earth's resources for themselves. I believe that they are the latter. That we are being watched. I also believe that they have come to Earth in the past, and that some of them may be walking among us, disguised as humans.
Kraekcae 6 months ago
I belive that aliens do exist. do I belive they will kill us all? not unless we are the agressor or the need a new planet since their planet is dead. I do infact belive that we humans mostly will reject them and think they are bad almost instantly because of all the movies about them that We made. I'm not saying that they will be friendly, I'm just saying that we as a planet need to be open and tolerent if they do vist.
Giggle69able 6 months ago
Well one thing's for sure, if they wanted to destroy us; it wouldn't be anywhere close to the movies. It's probably not going to be machine guns vs lasers but more like, sponges vs missiles. But to keep us from exploring the universe is to say no to human nature. To say no to our curiosity, if we do die at least it would be better then to die unknowing.
babyspyro12345 6 months ago
On the flip side, what if the aliens are tasty?
spacelubber12 6 months ago
@spacelubber12 Grab your knife, fork and spacesuit it's time for nom noms!
XTFparrot 6 months ago
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IAmASuperGenius1 6 months ago 7
@IAmASuperGenius1 24!
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
damn, i came expecting an atheist circle jerk :(
i guess aliens are just as good...
cplexroro 6 months ago
you should watch "curiosity" on the discovery channel, i think on friday, they're making an episode where they discuss this exact same thing. cool show...
cplexroro 6 months ago
risk taking optomists if we dont try we will never know you know maybe they do come in peace.
kaila0014 6 months ago
I figure that whatever we would do is probably what aliens would do. We are programmed for false-positive responses to potential danger so... gotta go with Hawking on this. I would probably try to be nice to them and everything but I think the general population wouldn't take kindly to their arrival.
CakeFace579 6 months ago
What if the "Aliens" are far less technologically advanced than us? We find them? What do we do if they need out help for whatever reason? Don't do us down, we are pretty technologically advanced at the moment.
tomizzmylife 7 months ago
There are plenty of planets in the galaxy without life for aliens to harvest. I don't think they will want to unnecessarily face us to harvest our planet. So I think we should search for alien intelligence.
rockingtushar 7 months ago
Ah, but you must remember Dan, it takes 3 days for the suns light and heat to reach our planet. It takes months and years approaching to ions for us to see anything outside of our galaxy. So how would they know we're here?
SonicADProductions 7 months ago
@SonicADProductions They could know, see what happened years ago and think thats the way it is now
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
@kingpiccolo101 Humans have only existed for about 10,000 years so far an alien civilization to spot us they would have to be pretty close.
SonicADProductions 1 month ago
why would aliens capuable of interstellar travel want our resources?
People need to realise that there is nothing special about Earth. Any resources found on Earth are also found everywhere else in the solar system and galaxy.
Unless ofcourse they're looking for oil... but in that case we would win... cus let's face it - we love the stuff.
U5K0 7 months ago
@U5K0 sad, but true
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
Here is the one thing that we might have over other Planets, we are as a people fighters, we never stop, we never will stop, and we are very very good at it. That being said they still would probably kill or take over us. Also you need to look at this for a disease point of view as well. Who knows what they might give us or what we might give them.
arustedspork22 7 months ago
@arustedspork22 Accidental BIO-WARFARE?!
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
When it comes to foreign visitors. Be welcoming, but cautious. Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
I do agree however it would work out like War of the Worlds or Avatar. The technologically dominant race would see humans as either as slaves like in African colonization, vermin like in Latin American colonization or perhaps meat like you said.
Or they could just be the most friendly group of beings we meet. I would hope so.
I would however be careful of any foreign extraterrestial race.
11TyDye 7 months ago
You're on a beach. Therefore, you're referring to Sagan.
kidkong584 7 months ago
Life in general is about risk taking, the potential benefits from engaging contact with an alien species as advanced or more advanced than us far outweighs the potential risks.
Mitchcrawley85 7 months ago
Any civilization that is capable of creating that much technology would be smart enough not to try and kill us.
CrayonVlogger 7 months ago
I am guessing that alien lifeforms have a special regard for sentient species. But obviously as you said no guarantee. Though if they have a thirst for knowledge as we do I would fully expect them to do little other than aid our Earthly conflicts for the sake of both species.
Garchompian 7 months ago
By the time we are able to discover an alien race advanced enough to travel the galaxy with powerful armies and weapons, they will have almost certainly been aware of our existence for a pretty long time so I would love the prospect of finding and alien race out there.
Garchompian 7 months ago
Killing chickens and pigs? Yes.. Yes there is. There is something wrong with that. But then I guess we shouldn't expect other species to be violent towards us as long as we are doing the same in our own back yard.
Avokado34 7 months ago
Who said that aliens have the technology to travel to earth?
TheANTZ456 7 months ago
@TheANTZ456 if they dont then we're both stuck until we can visit eachother. or at least contact.
DangoTeff 7 months ago
@TheANTZ456 who said they are real? :P hehe
chasearound 7 months ago
If aliens with intergalactic travel technology came to earth with hostile intent it wouldn't be a case of machine guns versus lasers, it would be more like sponges versus nukes. Their technology would be far beyond anything we can even imagine at this point thus they would be able to eradicate us without even trying.
Personally I believe aliens will leave us alone for the thought that they wouldn't need our resources, we can't stand on their technological plateau, and they have nothing to gain.
crimsonspade308 7 months ago
Cool
5628596 7 months ago
I think being a save pessimist is the best option here, because we as humans shouldn't be going all "let's search for some aliens", while we have our own planet to save.
The future water supply, trying not to shoot each other with nuclear weapons, just because some jerk wants all the oil/water/space that is left somewhere, the greenhouse effect, animal species dying out. You know. There's plenty to worry about already.
& looking around trying to find a "new earth" to live on would just be mean.
OneRandomLeo 7 months ago
I'm pretty sure if an alien race has the ability to travel intergalactic (able to travel within our own galaxy) space they probably have the technology to make there own water at will, seeing how hydrogen and oxygen are some of the most abandonment elements out there, so they wont be here for just water, If its for food i'm sure they know how to grow and harvest food correctly and efficiently that they wouldn't have to eat us or steal ours...
Joydivision456 7 months ago
@Joydivision456 Who Knows? maybe our food would kill them anyway.
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
@kingpiccolo101 You know as like a poision
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
Fearing aliens is just the human nature of fearing the unknown. I was unaware of Hawking's say in this debate and I'm kind of surprised that such an intelligent person would succumb to such basic instincts.
I'm with Sagan on this one.
I've never disagreed with him, what a beautiful human.
danasmana 7 months ago
@danasmana I agree with you on that, even Paul Hellyer and Steven Greer can't believe that Hawking would think that these aliens would harm us like what we see in movies and read in books. I would have expected someone like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell to say something like that, but not Stephen Hawking. Also if he needs proof about aliens he should talk to Jesse Marcel Jr. whose father was at Roswell. Because Marcel is the surviving witness to see the wreckage his father brought home.
stainshield 7 months ago
The Stephen Hawking scenario assumes that aliens act like we do, and the fact is that they will be alien, or to put it another way foreign, or to put it another way, who the hell knows how they think/act. so in the unlikely scenario that an intelligent species goes to the trouble of dealing with our violent species I say.......... coin toss?
Gundam08thMSteam 7 months ago
If aliens come here do you really think they would be here to help us and then go back? The answer is highly no. If you had traveled to at livable area and found people there that didn't want you there would you help them or leave or kill them? Also, if aliens visited us do you think they wouldn't even want Earth? We have destroyed it to a point a no return for our species lifespan, so would they really want Earth. All there is to say is that aliens came here, we are basically screwed.
rubikgami31415926 7 months ago
well i think that, um if aliens where hostile wouldent they have, like "eaten" us a long time ago i mean just search up aliens there are so much evidence around. like in pictures of mary THERE WERE SOUCERS IN THE PICTURE and the plauge the people decribed ghostly beings that hade axes of darkness.
alpha3743 7 months ago
I personally think we should seek them out instead of wait for them to show up at our doorstep...At least we would be more prepared that way.
Th3onlyIc3man 7 months ago
It is probably very unlikely that they will spot us humans since light only travels by the speed of light. It can't travel any faster than that so if the ''aliens'' are lets say 10 million light years away from us that they will the our earth how it used to be 10 million years ago. Or if they are even further away they won't even see the earth because it didn't exict yet.
PaperPIane 7 months ago
I do think it would probably be much more beneficial to meet them than not....
TheGolfinDolphin 7 months ago
The Saiyans. One year.
From what date I can't say.
Samail666 7 months ago 2
risk taking optimists
AntiTacoLegislation 7 months ago
I think that the odds of earth being the most safe planet that has the resources that it has, (Hydrogen, Oxygen, ect.) are extremely slim with the supposedly infinitely large expanse of space. I believe that the aliens would find a planet without any dangerous life, or at least less dangerous life, before taking earth, and as earth's main selling point is the water, we would see the loss of water on other celestial bodies such as moons with water on them.
werewolfkid95 7 months ago
anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about, should probably stop commenting.
TheGrubification 7 months ago
Interesting a. We as the USA had a law on the books to address part of this issue when we where just heading out into space which has been repealed, SETI is hibernated due to LACK OF FUNDS or we do know and don't want to listen to the SCREAMS anymore from other worlds being colonized, Consistently the Hollywood machine has been very NEGATIVE aka Independence day, Battle Field: LA, etc, China / Wang Sichao seem to have a clear head on this
dwgrigsby 7 months ago
Aliens why would they be smarter then us.. Look at all the other creature's we know.. There isnt any animal smarter then we are.. So I think it is more posible that we'll be the visitors..
JRubenmusic 7 months ago
Either way, the human race will end when the sun supernovas, so let's just go for it.
megmonkey992 7 months ago
@megmonkey992 The sun isn't massive enough to supernova, but nice try
darthminimall 7 months ago
Hopefully in centuries to come, we will be in peaceful contact with many alien races. (Maybe I've just read too much Oson Scott Card).
megmonkey992 7 months ago
@megmonkey992 Kill Buggers, Meet Piggies, Revive Buggers.
That's all I have to say.
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
I love videos that get me thinking. :)
Well, first of all, I think we humans have a lot of shit to sort out before we go looking for life outside of earth. (Poverty, starvation, war, etc.) Once we can get our act together, I think the idea of making contact with new life if really exciting. I absolutely think we should be risk-taking optimists. I think we could learn a lot from our galactic neighbors about technology, and biology, and the origin of the universe. Hopefully in centuries to come,
megmonkey992 7 months ago
What should we do, if aliens came here and said: "So ok, our calculations proove that your life on Earth will last only for 1000 years from this point on. If we help you by giving you some technology and advices, can we eat you all after 10 000 years?
MissRepona 7 months ago 37
@MissRepona We'd probably take the advice but then 10,000 years later we just kill them. Humans are dicks like that.
vmmusic 7 months ago
@MissRepona Kick their asses in 10000 years. Sure this is highly unlikely, but it's worth a shot.
Sunoco 7 months ago
@MissRepona
Go for it and try to improve upon the tech and kill the aliens around the 10,000 year mark. Then we could probably stretch another 1000 years out of the new tech.
kinversoni 5 months ago
@MissRepona i hope not
kingpiccolo101 1 month ago
@neverplaywitfire Haha... wouldn't that be nice :)
tomcatdcn 7 months ago
I think that we should not go for this. We (speaking as the human race) have enough problems as it is and do not need another thing on our plate. It would be cool to see the alien race but not now. Plus adding the nukes could end up being harmful to the world. The alien race may not even exist and we may be wasting time and resources and for a fairy tale idea!
epicfail566 7 months ago
Contact rules.
Chewie01100 7 months ago
You could not be more fake
Shejn1 7 months ago
haha last time i saw a clock moving in background, now i see the clouds...lol
buchi3100 7 months ago
what if the only protection in the long run against an "evil'(towards us) alien civ would be a stronger alien civ? and how could we imagine a way to hide ourselves from a higly more advanced alien civ?(possibly millions of years ahead of us...) i guess the only thing we could hope is that "good ones" will find us first, and shield us from others. Either we try to contact them or not might be as bad as it might be good.However we cant expect to see aliens react as we do for they are not humans.
Nic0maK 7 months ago
Aliens come over and 10 years before we're chargin out lazars.
StickdudeXD135 7 months ago
If we go to another planet, won't we be the aliens? :Philosoraptor:
StickdudeXD135 7 months ago
Don't worry. We got this. As proven in the movies: 'Independence Day' and 'War of the Worlds'
wangabo123 7 months ago
@wangabo123 indeed! and we could even go further : while movies almost have a good ending, they win the war, or they save the planet from evil things or some terrorists, in the real life however, irak, afganistan, vietnam... 9.11 ... i guess it's comforting to see that they do better in movies. however in War of the worlds, it's no the humans who solve the problem (but it's weird the alien are such fools that they forget about being contaminated on earth, but hey, its a movie, we must win ^^)
Nic0maK 7 months ago
Consider the following. When the original settlers came to the United States many many years ago, they brought with them diseases that the natives had no form of resistance to because their bodies had never encountered such strains of virus before.
If life from another planet were to come to Earth, or vice versa, this would impose a great risk of unleashing strains of bacterium into both species which neither one will have any form of protection against.
TL;DR Both species could die of disease
Yarukaru 7 months ago
@Yarukaru You are right, we have several strains of really dangerous bateria, if these bacteria or viruses adapt to infect these beings they may no be able to handle it.
EcuadorianFlagShip 7 months ago
Hawking´s right! Life seeks survival at all costs. If we make contact we´ll just be saying Hey here we are! Move in for the kill.. After they understand our technology and how to control the masses we will have the only purpose of serving them as Slavs nothing else. What other possible use can they give to us?? After there done with that why not eliminate the race so that it does not pose a threat to there species? Just as Hawking´s sad... We must start colonizing... the faster the better!
TheVladimirtk 7 months ago
@TheVladimirtk i would agree but in the end even if we develop on 200 solar systems, if the specie which we'll encounter first is already far more advanced than us today, it will still be far more advanced in one million year, if they want us eradicated for some reason, expanding will just by us time. Our actions may have no use at all, we depend more on how more they will react to us, than how we react to them. i think we are fools to think we could make a difference(yet we shall try so anyway)
Nic0maK 7 months ago
I'm siding with Sagan here. The thought of finding extremely advanced aliens is way too cool for me to care about them blowing us up.
UnforgivingCookie 7 months ago
why is everyone worrying about this? we rarely engage in active searches for extra terrestrials. And the ones we have sent weren't very well thought out, they probably won't be coherent by the time an alien receives them. And, by the time the messages travel to an effective distance we will probably have destroyed ourselves. Hawking makes a good point, but the media usage of this story is just sensationalism. And that includes Dan Brown.
aradioactivedonut 7 months ago
@aradioactivedonut The author or the Youtube Blogger?
EcuadorianFlagShip 7 months ago
@EcuadorianFlagShip The youtube one.
aradioactivedonut 7 months ago
I just think that the idea of assuming they would in any way resemble humans, both physically and psychologically is ridiculous. So looking at this subject in terms of "what would we do" is inconsequential, since they will invariably not be human and not share ANY of our though processes, tendencies or moralities.
Lauffles 7 months ago
So basically, there's no evidence to show that we would even be ABLE to interact with them, and if that is the case, why would they feel the need to try to communicate with us? They would simply see us the way we see a cow. They would take whatever we have that is useful to them and think nothing of it.
Lauffles 7 months ago
I personally like Neil Tyson's take on this, that since humans and apes are only 1% different in DNA (that 1% representing almost everything we have accomplished as a race), imagine what a race 1% different from us in the other direction would be like, how much their intelligence would dwarf ours. I don't know the odds of meeting a race that is essentially 100% similar genetically to ours, but I'll be willing to bet they're not high.
Lauffles 7 months ago
I have to agree with Sagan, for this reason:
While the risk of being blown up by aliens is a scary idea, the alternate is to sit on our planet, ignorant of the rest of our universe and still assuming that we are the only intelligent life in the universe, that, to me, is much scarier idea than death.
MightBeAWin 7 months ago
both. we as humans don't seek out other life, then the anti-evolutionists win. we as humans seek out other life, than District 9 shit goes down where either the other life are the aliens in the movie...OR District 9 shit goes down where humans are the aliens.
tazmon122 7 months ago
If aliens visit us we're screwed! Look no further than planet earth and what happened to the indigenous people of Australia and America when aliens with advanced technology arrived. I would prefer to be the visitor than the visited.
CiaranPaulRoche 7 months ago 41
@CiaranPaulRoche What reason do you have to believe that they would be more advanced?
MightBeAWin 7 months ago
@MightBeAWin The simple fact that they could make the journey to us. Look at the ships of the 1600's and how far advanced they were compared to dug out canoes of the natives. Maybe I'm prejudging the visitors and expecting them to be of human nature. All i know is we will be at their mercy.
CiaranPaulRoche 7 months ago
@CiaranPaulRoche But that being said you're giving them human values, characteristics, and behavior
diestar1 7 months ago
@diestar1 Right, i said I was prejudging the visitors by expecting them to have human nature..... However, that does not really matter. If they get here then they are using technology way beyond what we currently use and yes, we will be at their mercy for good or bad.
CiaranPaulRoche 7 months ago
@CiaranPaulRoche Yes, but how do we know that aliens are as intolerant and belligerent as humans?
RaoPaoer 7 months ago
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JakVsTorn 7 months ago
im going with Hawking i really doubt the aliens are going to be like E.T.
canderson2750 7 months ago
I think I agree with Stephen Hawking. I ever tried to read a book of hes, into the liberality had to get it back.
Berntisso 7 months ago
Thinking about the speed of light and the length humankind has existed on earth...our presence actually hasn't had much opportunity to be seen from very far away! Taking all things into account, avoiding contact is far and away the safest idea: if we avoid contact and they are friendly, we lose nothing. If they are hostile, we might get wiped out. I'd take the safer route!
robstitt22 7 months ago
If the aliens wanted our resources, they would just release some virus to kill us all or neutron bomb the shit out of us from a safe distance.
kevinrigg 7 months ago
Well if we contacted them first and they are hostile and offensive (as in they strike before we do) then that means their technology isn't too developed, because they would have already attacked us. If so, that means we could so tale them on in a war. And if they are more advanced than us technologically, then they didn't strike so we can assume they are peaceful, or at leas t won't strike until we do.
emeraldmaria 7 months ago 2
i think we ARE those hostile aliens who will likely deplete our own planet's resources then move on to raid other planets.
jeremalaria 7 months ago
I don't think it really matter what either one thinks. Humans, in nature, are curious and take lots of risks. However, we're also logical thinkers. This means that if the risk:reward ratio is leaning in our favor, humans will explore, take risks, and/ or contact extraterrestrials. As for, whether Hawking or Sagan is right, there's only one way to find out. But whether take that one way is completely up to us.
FreeVlogger 7 months ago
Any alien species able to travel interstellar distances would either have a biology so different from ours that the time needed to travel between stars is of little consequence to them, or possess technology so far ahead of ours that we would seem to them like monkeys banging coconuts. If the latter is the case, they are probably already here, and we are just too stupid to notice. If the first is the case, they would just have to wait long enough for us to go extinct before taking over the world
the12thfloor 7 months ago
Wow, this really is one of the most interessting topic. I mostly agree with Carl Sagan on this topic. I many different reasons. One of the reasons is that the aliens we would most likely meet first would be the sientists of the alien world. They would rather come to know us and observe us than kill us. But lets also not forget that aliens proabebely like humans have different karacters. Some would mabey like to help us while others would kill us. I will make a video responce about this.
Strijdparel 7 months ago
I don't think we should go search for aliens untill we have better technology, better defences. Not to kill. But to defend.
EyDie666 7 months ago
okay, um in regard to one comment you made (maybe i'm selling our weapons technology too short), no, you arent. There was a special presented on the science channel or history channel detailing the plan america has already prepared in the case of a hostile extra-terrestrial contact situation. Scientists hace figured something out, if any aliens had the tech to travel to earth from wherever they come from, their shielding tech would have to be strong enough to withstand 10 million times...
fawkestheguy 7 months ago
...the force of a nuke. Yes, just to make the trip over here, they have to have defensive tech that can easily brush aside anything we can throw at them. Another problem we would encounter: their flight maneuvering capabilities would be far beyond our own simply because of how advanced their tech would have to be, once again, just to make the trip to earth. Our only slightly effective weapon would be the publicly known, secret, experimental rail gun, which is still sucky compared to alien tech.
fawkestheguy 7 months ago
both have their pros and cons and there will be no solution until some kind of real contact has happened where we can come to an ultimate conclusion of what we are to do. Considering the law of nature spiecies normally do not accept other species but there are exceptions to this! So I'd have to say If we know which aliens don't want to harm us then lets be friends and the ones who do get a damn 22 caliber! or something to blow them away with
Sevilfate 7 months ago
I LOVE YOU! U rant like me! I'm not alone or crazy!
Sevilfate 7 months ago
I think I'll compare this issue to terrorism and how it has been viewed upon in modern society. Most people think that there'll be a terrorist attack sometime again. That doesn't mean they don't live their lives. You COULD dig a hole and forget the world OR you could actually take the risk of getting blown up or die from pollution and live a good life. I think the question of searching out alien life will be like that to most people sometime in the future. We won't be able not to do it.
Commentism 7 months ago
I think that we should be neither pessimists nor optimists but cautious neutralists because there is a 50-50 probability that any and all alien lifeforms could be violent, peaceful, or a mixture of both. However as to whether or not we should seek them out my thoughts are that we should because the rewards far outway the risks, if we could get our hands on a piece of alien technology that could help humanity survive I'm all for it.
cougar2326 7 months ago
Wasn't Hawking technical consultant for Mars Attacks?
ArtemiaSalina 7 months ago
SAGAN
giggshenrik 7 months ago
i personally think that we should but if there vilont than we should be too
chilledchaosfan1 7 months ago
if they are good aliens, then we will excell with friendship (hopefully) however if they are bad, we are definitely headed to the dustbin of history
Ace4929 7 months ago
We could not put up a fight. If they were able to traverse the galaxy they'd be moving at near light speeds. energy is mass times velocity squared, anything moving that fast has a lot of energy. They would just accelerate a hunk of metal to near light speed, launch it into the earth, and watch us be destroyed. Its a relativistic-kill-vehicle.
FukPhysics 7 months ago
The bad aliens would be a Luciferian civilization, and good aliens would be a civilization of Yahweh. They are at war with each other, so I guess both Hawking and Sagan are correct.
RaptorWizard 7 months ago
I think it needs to be a 'best of both worlds' deal. We definitely need to explore our solar system and those that surround us. The earth is dying very slowly, and we need to expand if we want to survive. However, we need to make sure that we treat any life that we find out there with respect. The motto I live by is "assume the worst, hope for the best". If we assume that the aliens are hostile we will be armed against it, but if we hope they're friendly we will be open to communication.
DragonBoi3789 7 months ago
Pleas slow down. High on speed?
christergullberg1 7 months ago
plz dont come too close to the cam
ArattaTube 7 months ago
Personally I'd like to meet aliens if they exist and yes there's a risk in that they might be violent towards us, but here's the thing, there's a risk in meeting new people daily. We as humans are violent towards each other and kill each other. Even if aliens do exist, and the ones we meet are violent, who's to say that that's how it is with that race? Not all humans are violent, so why judge an entire race of aliens based on the actions of a few.
jedimaster1179 7 months ago
carl sagan ftw
GenoKatz4 7 months ago
I always wanted to meet the aliens. :)) I might be too foolish, but I've always imagined them as friendly creatures. I do think they exist.
vampirica89 7 months ago
This is probably my favorite topic from your recent videos. Realistically, humans are genetically curious. We always have been and will always will be. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence could be like opening "Pandora's Box". On the other hand, we could be missing out on the greatest discovery of mankind. I enjoy the idea that the future is similar to Mass Effect (a game that takes a realistic glimpse if human were to make contact with aliens). But I rather play it safe for now.
NuudlEsSouP 7 months ago
thats cool because i was on vacation in ohio on the day that you uploaded that video
ibetweetinonyou 7 months ago
as well. We would only be able to communicate through drawings and pictures...
izthulu 7 months ago
We could make an antimatter bomb. Then we would have at least SOME formidable force against them.
A last resort, or a warning shot? If they're so advanced, they would have multitudes of antimatter weaponry. Which means that all weaponry we have is most likely useless. I think, if we do find alien life, we OBSERVE before we ACT. If they seem like a friendly race, we can TRY to communicate. It may be worthless though. Their language would almost indefinitely be different, and their number system
izthulu 7 months ago
If aliens DO come here, if they aren't here already, according to the masses that report sightings and such, I don't think that they would be 'nice' OR bloodthirsty killers and such. I think they may be curious, or maybe, as Michio Kaku says, we could be so below them that to them, we're like ants are to us.
Would we go to a colony of ants and give them a computer? Or even a pen..? No. And if they ARE violent.. We are working on gathering masses of antimatter. If we were to produce enough...
izthulu 7 months ago
Hmmm... Maybe aliens won't attack us because we are wicked violent. There is the possibility that humans would rather destroy the Earth ourselves than to allow aliens to take it over. In other words, face nuclear holocaust just to get them away from Earth. Besides, humanity is not too far from launching nuclear holocaust against itself.
midu914 7 months ago
Like Stephen said. If they know we exist they prolly view us like we view a colony of ants. I don't see humans trying to communicate with ants to show them we exist and share our technology. Ants aren't very important in our life, I doubt we are important in theirs
skinnydiprog3r 7 months ago
its fine ... the doctor will be there when it happens :P
but seriously i think its possible that they could think of us as less then they are and just kill us
icraigg 7 months ago
there is one cloud in the back that looks extreamly fluffy ! and drawn in
bralw09 7 months ago
he does a lot of traveling
Gameskater1 7 months ago
Ever see Independence Day?
radon210 7 months ago
ET.. phone morg
GionisTheWanderer 7 months ago
I think we should be safe optimists
im19ice3 7 months ago
We have to look at history. In nearly every situation where one group meets an inferior group (example: europeans moving to america) they conquer the inferior people. This can be seen in billions of places in history. WWII, spanish influence with aztecs, europeans in the west indies, etc. If we met up with more advanced aliens, they would have no reason to assist us, and would most likely be hostile. Everyone who disagrees is just dreaming in a world they would like to see, instead of reality.
DrTrickShot 7 months ago
Certainly they won't give up their resources for us. And whatever we have that their planet doesn't have, they must already know how to produce the substance. So, in conclusion, I don't think any advanced races are gonna be helping us out anytime soon.
nickansh1 7 months ago
@nickansh1 K.
csesmftw 7 months ago
Well, You mentioned that aliens could possibly help us out if they have more sophisticated technology but, if you really think about it, why would they. If they do have more advanced technology then us, then they must know that we are here, which probably means that they don't give a hoot. Plus, they are probably going through their own problems that they can't figure out how to solve. Even if they help us out, they are going to want something in return. CONTINUED IN NEXT COMMENT /\
nickansh1 7 months ago
This is quite a simple question to answer. Evolution as we know it, essentially comes from survival of the fittest. This means that violent behaviour is programmed right into us. We have no reason to assume that it is not programmed into every successful civilization. Not only that, but if any alien races know we exist, and can get here, then our nukes won't do anything to them. We would be at their mercy.
mmprotest2 7 months ago
if they are as sadistic, cruel, and immature as humans, I hope we never find them
ninearthify 7 months ago
I seriously thought that you were going to make a video about who would win if Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking had a fight.
hobo8675309 7 months ago
They wouldn't waste the energy to raid earth as every system is rich with resources so why wipe out a civilization for a nearly depleted planet? Just my thought though
kimpoking 7 months ago
Reckless optimism for the win!!! =D
keerak 7 months ago