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Hawking predicts end of Earth within the next thousand years or so
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<blockquote data-quote="redleghunter" data-source="post: 69148776" data-attributes="member: 348895"><p>He believes such unless aliens get here first:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #663300"><strong><em>Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em>by Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em>Date: 21 July 2015 Time: 02:10 AM ET</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em><a href="http://m.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html" target="_blank">http://m.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html</a></em></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em>This week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos, even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to destroy humanity. </em></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em>Since at least 2010, Hawking has spoken publicly about his fears that an advanced alien civilization would have no problem wiping out the human race the way a human might wipe out a colony of ants. At the media event <a href="http://www.space.com/29990-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-initiative.html" target="_blank">announcing the new project</a>, he noted that human beings have a terrible history of mistreating, and even massacring, other human cultures that are less technologically advanced — why would an alien civilization be any different? </em></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #663300"><em>And yet, it seems Hawking's desire to know if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe trumps his fears. Today (July 20), he was part of a public announcement for a new initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which organizers said will be the most powerful search ever initiated for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. [</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redleghunter, post: 69148776, member: 348895"] He believes such unless aliens get here first: [SIZE=6][COLOR=#663300][B][I]Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway[/I][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#663300][I]by Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer[/I] [I]Date: 21 July 2015 Time: 02:10 AM ET[/I] [I][/I] [I][URL]http://m.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html[/URL][/I] [I][/I] [I]This week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos, even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to destroy humanity. [/I] [I][/I] [I]Since at least 2010, Hawking has spoken publicly about his fears that an advanced alien civilization would have no problem wiping out the human race the way a human might wipe out a colony of ants. At the media event [URL='http://www.space.com/29990-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-initiative.html']announcing the new project[/URL], he noted that human beings have a terrible history of mistreating, and even massacring, other human cultures that are less technologically advanced — why would an alien civilization be any different? [/I] [I][/I] [I]And yet, it seems Hawking's desire to know if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe trumps his fears. Today (July 20), he was part of a public announcement for a new initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which organizers said will be the most powerful search ever initiated for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. [[/I][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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