Stephen Hawking: Beware the Space-Vikings!

[mckitterick]

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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The opposite view is that any species advanced enough to travel interstellar distances will have needed to learn cooperation on a massive scale, would have survived internal conflicts long enough to do so, and would have likely passed through the technological Singularity. What do you think?

[Poll #1556972]

Chris

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yes...

[tricstmr.livejournal.com]

.. 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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

.. 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....