{"id":620,"date":"2010-04-27T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:13:51","slug":"stephen-hawking-watch-out-for-those-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking: Watch Out For Those Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Famed physicist\u00a0<a title=\"Stephen Hawking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Stephen+Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>delivered a chilling warning on a recent television special,\u00a0&#8220;Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aliens are out there&#8230; and we need to stop trying to talk to them, he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn&#8217;t want to meet,&#8221; the award-winning British scientist said in\u00a0the series for the\u00a0<a title=\"Discovery Communications Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Discovery+Communications+Inc.\">Discovery Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To drive the point home, Hawking argued that aliens visiting Earth would likely be the same as when explorers first arrived in the New World.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when\u00a0<a title=\"Columbus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Columbus\">Columbus<\/a> landed in<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/United+States\">America<\/a>, which didn&#8217;t turn out well for the Native Americans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>If aliens in space ships did come to Earth, Hawking suggests, they may be more &#8220;V&#8221; than &#8220;E.T.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,&#8221; he said, arguing that they may have taken to the stars because they depleted resources on their home world.<\/p>\n<p>However, if humans were to encounter aliens, Hawking believes they would likely be animals or even just microbes.<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery series, which begins airing tonight, will address issues such as space exploration, alien life, as well as time travel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Into the Universe&#8221; took three years to complete, and was spearheaded by Hawking, who suffers from neuro-muscular dystrophy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed physicist\u00a0Stephen Hawkingdelivered a chilling warning on a recent television special,\u00a0&#8220;Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.&#8221; Aliens are out there&#8230; and we need to stop trying to talk to them, he says. &#8220;We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn&#8217;t want to meet,&#8221; the award-winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}