Astrophysicist announces the possible existence of extraterrestrials

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Astrophysicist announces the possible existence of extraterrestrials

Finally, one of the world's most famous astrophysicists admits that the existence of extraterrestrials is a possibility and their intentions for their arriving are not a friendly one. The English scientist, said this, “aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans”.


LONDON (AP) – Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking warned Sunday, April 25, 2010.


"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports.

Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom 

from President Obama on August 12, 2009  

The programs depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.


"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking.


The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States.


On the probability of alien life existing, he says: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.


"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."


Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos.






Stephen Hawking who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, leaving him almost paralyzed and unable to speak uses an electronic voice synthesizer to communicate. The DECtalk DTC01 voice synthesizer, which he uses, has an American English accent. Asked why he has still kept it after so many years, Hawking mentioned that he has not heard a voice he likes better and that he identifies with it. 










Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilizations.


In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star or the Polar Star-- in 2439.


But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years.


The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun.

Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth.