Shhh, don’t wake the aliens, warns Hawking

IrishExaminer ^ | February 14, 2015

[BenLurkin]

Meanwhile, scientists have learned what people would say on making first contact with aliens and it is not “take me to your leader”.

Instead, they are much more likely to ask the extraterrestrials for help. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scientist Doug Vakoch said: “One of the striking commonalities — men and women, young and old — was a message ‘please help’.

“A sense that we are in a very precarious time in our development as a civilisation,” said Dr Vakoch. “Our technologies are greater than our social stability. So if we make contact with another civilisation that may be more advanced they may have got through the tech bottleneck and may have some advice,” he said.

[BenLurkin]

A new "nine most frightening words in the English language"

We're from Zeta Reticuli, and we're here to help.

[2banana]

How to serve man...

[Ditto]

“A sense that we are in a very precarious time in our development as a civilisation,” said Dr Vakoch. “Our technologies are greater than our social stability. So if we make contact with another civilisation that may be more advanced they may have got through the tech bottleneck and may have some advice,” he said.

Sounds like the start to a bad Sci Fi movie.

[shibumi]

Don't be silly. The Zetas are mucho friendly.

It's those Reptilians from Draco you have to worry about.,p>

I know because David Icke told me so!
(And so did Quix!)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Or “we are from the planet Uranus and we are here to carp all over you.” :-)

[doorgunner69]

“Can you rid us of liberals?”

[clearcarbon]

They're here!

[shibumi]

I don’t have anything else to add. I just thought this would be a good time to change my tagline.

[EveningStar]

bump

[shibumi]

Ok, so I did think of one other thing -

[cripplecreek]

There is nothing here that aliens could want aside from biological protein.

Every other thing we know of exists in vast abundance in space. An interstellar species isn’t likely to waste time with us when so much is free for the taking all around them.

Personally I have no interest in intelligent alien life. I want life we can eat.

[Rodamala]

PLEASE HELP!!!

[EveningStar]

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is great! :)

[onedoug]

Hawking and his “fellows” are nuts, sautéed in his celebrity.

If they ever come - which I doubt as the distance scales are so vast, and they’ve only had the same basic time frames to develop in anyway - I’d want to know how they did it.

[Rodamala]

PLEASE HELP!!!

[Jane Long]

[KC_Lion]

Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.

Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.

Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.

Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. The Protheans were not the first. They did not create the Citadel. They did not forge the mass relays. They mere found them - the legacy of my kind. Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays. Our technology. By using it, your civilization develops along the paths we desire.

We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. My kind transcends your very understanding.

We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence. We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure.

We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvrIFIjTGt0

[Empireoftheatom48]

Robert Heinline had the right idea with Starship Troopers, killing all the bugs. Also if you liked Heinline read the book Old Mans War by John Scali a great novel in the style of Heinline!

[beethovenfan]

Help is available, but people don’t want it. Most have rejected Jesus and his message. I believe that there will be “apparent” contact with “extra-terrestrials”
but that it will be part of the great delusion of Satan in the last days.

[Dallas59]

BRAIN AND BRAIN....WHAT IS BRAIN????!!!