Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said this week that he thinks primitive life-forms might exist somewhere in our galaxy. But he believes that advanced, intelligent beings are rare in the universe. And he discounted reports of UFOs.
“We don’t appear to have been visited by aliens,†he said. “Why would they only appear to cranks and weirdos?â€
We assume he’s including Dennis Kucinich?
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There are a lot of non weirdo people who have claimed to have seen UFOs. There’s a whole mess of higher ranking military who have come out and said they have seen with their own eyes.
Oh…Okay :roll:
Why would they only appear to cranks and weirdos?”
They weren’t cranks or weirdos til they saw them.
How does this guy know that there is life in our galaxy or not? He hasn’t been out there. I think he’s the weirdo.
I don’t know, do I care if we have been visited. The fact there are billions of stars and galaxies says to me there is something out there, and some of it is probably intelligent.
With all the ID arguments going on, it wouldn’t surprise me God created worlds where a Harry Potter like place exists. If God made the earth less than ten thousand years ago, subverting all the scientific research to the negative, than God can do anything. Parallel universes? Not a problem. Time travel? Not a problem. Worm holes? Not a problem.
After all, God made no mention of life anywhere else in the universe, and with travel to another star/planet system hundreds, if not thousands, of years off, I doubt He is going to make it easy for us to find those intelligently populated worlds.
Why the shot at Dennis Kucinich Randy?
He isn’t running against your soulmate Obama anymore. Lingering bitterness?
Well people who see UFOs are not all cranks. They ARE seeing….something. Is it life from other worlds I don’t know.
To even get here they would have to be as advanced beyond us as we are above the time around when we started walking upright.
But life in the galaxy? I’m sure of it on at least the simple form level. Life is nothing more than complicated chemistry. And that chemistry is abundant. And that is just the life type we know.
Many Christians believe in a place called Heaven where people who have passed away on earth live.
The Catholics say that Mary the mother of Jesus was taken to Heaven while still alive leading to the conclusion that Heaven is a physical place somewhere beyond.
Many Christians believe in a place called Heaven where people who have passed away on earth live.
The Catholics say that Mary the mother of Jesus was taken to Heaven while still alive leading to the conclusion that Heaven is a physical place somewhere beyond.
Hawking apparently hasn’t been watching the History Channel.
Entire crews of air-craft carriers have seen UFO’s complete with humanoid forms in the windows.
The Bible describes “Ezekiel’s wheel” and the “angels” that came to earth.
I’ve never personally seen a black hole either, but according to physicists like Hawking they exist, and I’m supposed to believe it.
That’s different from believing the massive evidence of UFO sightings exactly how?
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.” Hamlet
“But life in the galaxy? I’m sure of it on at least the simple form level. Life is nothing more than complicated chemistry.”
PJ, you are the proof that life can exist “on at least the simple form level”.
Life is far more than “chemistry”, although you may prove the exception, I’m not sure quite yet. :roll:
That’s BJ, ie. BlueJay, not PJ. It’s hard to keep your nic straight JR.
but but…
What would National Enquirer write about?
Unless there is some way to get around relativistic limits on speed there is no way for us to find out about possible intelligent life in distand star systems. The distances – and times – are simply too great.
Another limitation might be that systems have a finite lifetime. Their may well have been such life in some system millions of years ago that has since gone extinct.
It is a fascinating topic; however I doubt that we will have any answers in my lifetime.
Isn’t this how scientists in astrophysics justify their existence by proposing bold new theories that stretch the imagination in order to keep the research grants flowing in?
How else would it make sense to burn through millions of grant money, massive funding for NASA, etc. to find ET life if there were no scientists popping up every once in a while proposing that such life exists?
How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?
Why?
“How does this guy know that there is life in our galaxy or not? He hasn’t been out there. I think he’s the weirdo.”
I know I’m butchering this old saying, but whether there is other life in the universe or not, it’s a very sobering concept.
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You’d think Hawking would be smart enough to remember the meaning of the ‘U’ in UFO. Personally, I can’t buy a civilization investing the resources of a planet or stellar system and the time to travel tens to hundreds of light years
just to visit a backwater ‘berg of a planet and steal cattle sex organs.
How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?
Why?
I don’t imagine much. The budget of SETI runs, what?, the budget of a mom & pop burger joint? The real reason we’re even looking at Mars is continued knowledge, plus it’ll make a great retreat for the CEOs and industrialists after they’re done butchering the planet we have now. What is NASA’s budget? 2 days or 3 of the Iraq war?
“To Serve Man” remember this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
“To Serve Man” remember this one?
Colbert report last week had a guy with patches from different military organizations. That was one of the patches.
When Dennis Kucinich saw the UFO, he was with Shirley McClain. She was the crank and weirdo that drew the craft, I am sure…
Kucinich never claimed to see aliens, he said he saw an UFO and explained that he called it an UFO because he didn’t know what it is.
As for life on other planets that’s just plausible due to the billions of stars and the trillions of planets surrounding those stars. It’s just playing the odds. Of course the odds of life in the universe is 100%, otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this.
Thanks to one dumbass, irrelevant comment by Randy, what could have been an intelligent discussion of extraterrestrial life became a series of jokes about “little green men.”
Oh well.
P.S. I’m still hoping for a science debate. I want Obama to elaborate on his administration’s space policy, for one thing.
Of course people have seen UFO’s.
It is the assumption that those UFO’s are alien spacecraft and other things which is what makes them and others wierd.
Why would aliens travel across the galaxy only to do anal probes on rednecks?
“TomPaine” asks –
“Why would aliens travel across the galaxy only to do anal probes on rednecks?”
It was the rednecks’ idea.
Looks to me as if some folks need to open their little minds, and do some research and study into the UFO issue, before making half-witted comments. Hawkings is aa pure physicist; he deals in only what he can reproduce in a lab; the term in universities is called “theoretical physicist” Many universities have such a department… That is just factual — not imaginary… Do the study, before jumping to “weird” conclusions
with the new registration many of you have changed nics and I’m lost as to who is whom now. :(
WichWomn, here’s a few:
Maggotpunk = Doug
Franklin = Econ101
bth = Ben
BlueJay = J R
Nathaniel = Nathan
HLP = Hank
Wahine_Tara = Tara
There are some others, but I’ll let them expose themselves! (er, I mean. . .)
WichiWomn, it is possible some from Rage’s list showed up on an UFO.
LOL Linda!!
I wonder if their oil is cheaper than where we get it from. Maybe they will export to us.
Thanks Rage! Yes, some I have figured out but it wasn’t easy since I don’t get to read the blog all the time. and I know PreD is RD.
LOL Linda.
At this time the general public will not know the truth about those aliens for it is a highly evolved social club.
Hawking’s statement of “intelligent beings are rare in the universe”, it is ironic for him to say that, for that is what the lowly ants thinks of man and the ants know better for they have been around a lot longer then man.
“Many Christians believe in a place called Heaven where people who have passed away on earth live.
The Catholics say that Mary the mother of Jesus was taken to Heaven while still alive leading to the conclusion that Heaven is a physical place somewhere beyond.”
I believe that crap as much as I believe in UFO’s
WW – rage is correct. I think at least some of that happened because a name was already taken. At least in my case.
“How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?
Why?
SETI or the S earch for E xtra T errestrial I ntelligence is privately funded by the Planetary society and other membership groups.
How much NASA has spent om Mars research in general would pale in comparison to Pentagon over budget for less than a year.
I guess it goes to what sort of a people we choose to be. Space exploration and science are one of the best of the things that we do.
Take the Mars rovers. Originally designed for a 90 day mission, they have exceeded their mission expectancy many fold.
And as to life in the universe. I like the way Sagan character Ann Arroway put it in “Contact”
“If it’s just us? It seems like an awful waste of space.”
SETI or the S earch for E xtra T errestrial I ntelligence is privately funded by the Planetary society and other membership groups.
Exactly correct. And by the way, you can participate:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
God knew that man will be too busy concerning himself with life on this planet. Why should he complicate our lives by implying that other life forms exist? Isn’t it enough that he loves us and wants us to love, take care of and serve one another? What would be the use in our concern that other beings exist? I don’t care. I have more important things to worry about…my family, my loved ones and those who believe like I do that we should be kind and helpful to one another.