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Exopolitics involves study of the public policy implications of extraterrestrial life. Hitherto confined to esoteric discussions between intellectuals, researchers and ‘experiencers’ on the fringes of mainstream academia, world famous British physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking, now publicly approves exopolitical discussions. In a new documentary series that began Sunday night, April 25, on the Discovery Channel, Hawking claims that the high mathematical probability that alien life exists, makes reflection on their possible motivations necessary. While Hawking does not mention the word ‘exopolitics’ his statements legitimate efforts to study the public policy implications of extraterrestrial life. Hawking’s statements are the logical development of recent scientific conferences studying the implications of alien life. In the last six months, both the Vatican and the Royal Society of London have held astrobiological conferences studying the implications of life found on other worlds. Hawking’s documentary series indicates his approval of scientists making public policy recommendations on the hitherto fringe topic of extraterrestrial life. Hawking's own recommendation is to ignore intelligent aliens, they might be dangerous!
In his new documentary series, Hawking 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.”
Hawking is here referring to the shear number of life bearing planets, or exoplanets, estimated to exist in the Milky Way galaxy, let alone the universe. Recent scientific discoveries reveal that life can evolve under the harshest conditions, as evidenced near undersea volcanoes and 600 feet under the Antarctic ice crust. If life can evolve under extreme conditions on Earth, then this greatly increases the possibility of life on other worlds. A similar conclusion was reached by scientists at the Royal Society of London conference held from January 25-26, 2010. Professor Simon Conway Morris, a Cambridge University evolutionary biologist, said:
Contrary to most neo-Darwinian thinking at the moment, evolution is much more predictable than people think. In short, under the right conditions of a "biosphere" such as those present on Earth, the molecules necessary to form complex and intelligent life are already available; Darwinian evolution will do the rest.
The scientific debate now shifts, according to Hawking, to “what aliens might actually be like.” This is where Hawkings launches into the emerging field of exopolitics:
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
Hawkings continues his expolitical analysis when it comes to the possible outcome of Earth ever being discovered by visiting extraterrestrial life:
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Hawking’s new documentary series goes significantly beyond recent scientific discussion of possible extraterrestrial life by actually recommending public policy on its inevitable discovery. While one can heartily disagree with Hawking’s public policy recommendation of ignoring intelligent alien life, he is to be congratulated for elevating exopolitical study as a “perfectly rational” discussion. Thank you Stephen Hawking for endorsing exopolitical discussion, if not yet the actual term ‘exopolitics’.
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“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
Wasn't this the Plot of Independence Day. ???
MeThinks the Great Prof is loosing it a bit.
Or more likely He is parroting "the Company Line". But,for WHAT reason is what WE immortals have to ask....Prof. Hawking.
I imagine the day before Prof. Hawking announced his "ideas" to the world, there were people out there thinking how wonderful and smart he was.
Until suddenly he uses the word "alien" and these same people turn around and say: Mr. Hawking, you quack!
Such disrespect!
I feel these people are being viciously ignorant and intellectually fickle.
Soon, they too will have to face the music.
Perhaps it is the other way around. Maybe ET has been talking all the while and we are just beginning to listen. The good news is that someone of Hawking's caliber is broaching a subject that is essentially taboo in academia and science. Now if we can get this esteemed gentleman to admit that we do not need a radio reciever to talk, but only have to look over our shoulder then disclosure will move quickly.
I'm sorry about Stephen Hawkins. Someone in Prepare4Contact wrote that he was a "karmic illiterate".
Indeed, instead of reading Boylan, Webre, Basiago and Salla, he is wasting time with sciences like mathematics, astrophysics and who knows what more.
Dr Salla should invite him to his courses of Galactic Diplomacy, and Brako, the croatian healer, could also cure him.
Alfred Webre is clear enough about the more than one hundred extraterrestrial races visiting us, and Stephen must remember that we, humans, are under cosmic quarantine. Stephen Hawkins must learn the Laws of the Universe that Webre, the lawyer, knows so well.
Perhaps he belongs to the Cabal?. That's what Boylan, the self-appointed Councilor of Earth, AKA "doctor hot tube" thinks.
It would be great for Stephen Hawkins to have a Solar Initiation in Bolivia and after that, pay a visit to the subterranean cities under the Titicaca lake. Also to contact the White Brotherhood now moved to Bolivia from Tibet...
The views given about Stephen Hawkins are too much précised and noticeable.
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frank2869
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Clay and Shawn and All Smiles,
What are you ALL on? How could you miss the plot taken directly from a popular movie? Is this purposeful on your part?
I assure you the reference WAS purposeful on Professor Hawkings part. Now Kids it is up to you to ask; WHY?
Dear Salla, you will remember the secret meeting inside the UN last year. I think that Mister Hawking was briefed about the alien reality some time ago. Hawking is in my opinion choosen by the Brittish Initiated as a key person to start informing the public about the alien reality. He is the perfect person to do so.
About his opinion on aliens. It is clearly a typical Brittish viewpoint. I guess it has to do with there imperialistic beckground. Still, it is reasonable viewpoint and not at all impossible. Personally I think that the GREYS fit his picture. But the humanoids discussed in the alien code are in general good and highly ethical people. But if they are real people than some of them can be criminal and others saints and everything in between. Just like humans here on earth. Just like Humanity has so much good to offer, beside the criminal tendency's, this same will be the case for real humans of other planets. The question is, do they send there army first or there mystics.
Ramon, there was NEVER a secret meeting about UFOs in UN.
Please, ask for some reliable evidence. There is none, on the contrary the whole thing was a hoax.
After all, what else is the so called Exopolitics if not a hoax?
By the way, the EXAminer will soon be the EXOminer.
prof weird i will break a couple of bones in your body if you talk against exopolitics its real i will give you details of what im going to do to you get a hammer and a knife sneak up behind you and lets say this will be a experiment to see how loud you scream then when im tired i will just kill you this is a promise
prof weird i will break a couple of bones in your body if you talk against exopolitics its real i will give you details of what im going to do to you get a hammer and a knife sneak up behind you and lets say this will be a experiment to see how loud you scream then when im tired i will just kill you this is a promise
Let's talk about Dr Salla's look. Please Michael, change your picture.
Enough is enough. You look like a later days hippie. Time to comb your hair and going back to your original academic look. Buy some good ties, a couple of suits and a few shirts.
You are not so young after all, and a mature look will be much better for you.
Forget about the beach boy look, please.
The reason of Stephen Hawkins, ET touch is obvious. He is selling the program. He is not talking about Exopolitics, but about Star-trek.
In the present Society of the Spectacle, the supreme rule is that "the show must go on".
UFOs as Politics and News are just ENTERTAINMENT.
Only is true and good what SELLS.
Salla with this writing just gives his preposterous Exopolitics some fresh air.
Anyway he is now into Faith Healers (Brako), New Age, the Dolphins and some Exotourism.
A L E L U I A
It is true that the programmakers want to have a big audience. But that doesn't mean that the program is only there to make monney. You can say that for any program. Befor Hawking allowed to use his name for this topic, be sure there was in advance some indepth discussion about the effect of his statements on the scientific community. He has more to loose than to gain with his. Any how, I think he is brave to open the discussion.
I am not so sure if the UN meeting was a hoax. Maybee, the statements that it was a hoax was a hoax to. Nobody has real prove of the one or the other statement. But some months after the presumed meeting, old prime minister of Belgium discussed the alien reality in a program for children on TV. There where 400.000 children looking to that program. I only mean that we can't deny that more and more officials worldwide talk openly about the possible alien reality. There is nothing wrong with that. The real truth will come out in the end. It always does.
For such an intelligent guy, Mr. Hawking's taking our limited earth experience and covering his eyes like a baby to the truth: since interstellar life HAS been visiting for millennia and haven't invaded, it's a foolish take on reality, replacing it with a fantasy best suited to current video games and an L. Ron Hubbard writing career. If I wasn't scared of Sarah Palin's wrath, I'd be baggin' on him a bit more informally, but since I'm sure he's a great guy besides this deference to the Party Line, I'll just say I hope he keeps his xenophobic limited visions of peril and counterproductive nonsense to himself.
He's not quoting the party line. He's quoting the HOLLYWOOD line. It's as plain as day. All he needs to throw in is a couple of Jeff Goldbloom lines and you pretty much have THAT movie.
Arthur Clarke (radarspecialist) made a smal but significant remark. Ufology is based on eyewitness of ordenary people who by accident see something unusual. But the military installations see everything from the size of a pencil worldwide in the surrounding space. So they must have numerous of cases and information since the invention of the radar. The guy's who have to deal with this information must have a good picture of the UFO phenomenon. It is very possible that some of those who write story's for Hollywood are initiated in part with information of the secret service and military. If Hawking is briefed on the same information, it is not so strange that his opinion has some resemblence with Holywood story's. But Hawking advice "not have nor seek contact with them" makes me worry. A simple law could forbit contact with ET, making all the contactees suddenly enemy's of the state. They could be considered to be spy's of the aliens etc. Salla, think twice about this possibility!
Prof. Weird says:
Ramon, there was NEVER a secret meeting about UFOs in UN.
Please, ask for some reliable evidence. There is none, on the contrary the whole thing was a hoax.
After all, what else is the so called Exopolitics if not a hoax?
By the way, the EXAminer will soon be the EXOminer.
Disregard the above statement, Ramon. I have since met TWO of Source A's succeeding counterparts to the UN. Moreover, Michael Salla has met our source too. Our source talked at length with Michael Salla about what transpired at the UN.
It happens all the times: People in an instable mental phase in their life are suddenly sucked in by the exo-ufoistic publishing industry. Obviously, this time it happened to Steven Hawking. And it's not a coincidence. The industrie's exponent use deliberatly well known means of mind manipulation (known as brainwashing) to bait and mentally overwhelm their audience. L. Ron Hubbard delivered the proof with his Scientology Church, this concept works. Reliably. To make that point clear: Everything, we believe about (alleged) extraterrestrial life is 100% pure speculation, until we might have found a tangible and unambigous proof. Until then, the slimy and bizarre business with mental beliefs, insanity and snake-oil can go on. However, believers shouldn't be surprisd about the fact, space scientists and their governemnts take tham as a feral pack. So it's not a coincidence, govt'l SETI/UAP-research involvement and public space programs are shut down and go black.
@Rabbid
Hi Sacha, it's me Windu Chi; what happen to your YouTube account?
Also, you know what's is happening, Sacha; the dam of truth is leaking
again; the question is now, is the "powers that be"(your empolyers), going to let the dam burst this time?
And not patch the leaks up, like they did in Nov 2009. ;-)
I remember a remark, Prof. Allen Hynek made during one of his lectures during a seminar about astro physics and nuclear fusion. Dear student he said: To understand the UFO phenomena, , we need a new physics. Unidentified Flying Objects are objective phenomena. If you like it or not. We are now 30 years further. But you can still not study Ufology at the university. It is a real shame. It is this attitude in the scientific world that pushes people in the arms of subcultures, sects and what have you. Ufology is a science and has nothing to do with believing or not believing. You know something about this topic or you don't. Hawking doesn't make a link between the theoretical possibility of extra-terrestial live and Ufology. That is OK. But that he leaves Hynek, a professional astronomer out of the equasion is something to regret. He should know above all that Max planck said. Don't wait for the old generation to approve paradigmshift. They will die out. The young ones can handle it.
Man, a famous scientist mentioned the possiblity of hostile aliens, and all these crazies come out of the woodwork. Sigh...nutcases with UFO in their heads. People you people should note that Hawkings is highly skeptical of UFO visitation on Earth.
@Cha[
aliens, and all these crazies come out of the woodwork. Sigh...nutcases with UFO in their heads.]
Nutcase should only describe cockroaches, called UFO Debunkers; that definition fits you very well.
You will soon find, that you & your cockroaches friends, was the nutcases all along.
The ridicule will be your companion, soon.
There's something more hard to comprehend than all UFO stuff: why the heck do all those skeptical people keep visiting this website? Once they don't believe in UFOs, why don't they spend their time doing any other thing?
You take the words out of my mouth Glaucio. But because the topic is Hawking's view about alien live in the universe I would like to ad some words about the first episode, alreaddy post on the web. What he sais is not at all new. The problem is that if aliens would find us, they are more advanced than we are. What does that mean? We are more advanced than humans of 6000 years ago. But not only on technological level. Also on physical, social, psychological, intellectual and cultural level we have evolved. How will humans look and live in 2000 years? Very hard to say. I guess we will be more beautiful, more ethical, etc.. More human. I don't understand why it is so hard for scientist to accept the possibility that aliens look very much like us. But more evolved. So more ethical and sensitive, more beautiful, more psychologically intellectually and socially evolved. If that would be the case, they can indeed walk among us, talk with us and we woulden't know they are alien.
Wow, so mature in calling me names like coachroaches. I can see why you people can't get mainstream respect. Here's a hint buddy, if you beleive in UFOs, fine, but why is there no solid evidence? Wait, let me guess, it's all a "government cover-up" ala X-files. Give me a break. And you expect me to believe that? Yeah keep trying buddy while I call the men in white coats to send you guys off to where you all belong.
Glaucio: "Once they don't believe in UFOs, why don't they spend their time doing any other thing?"
How about living in the REAL world, like getting a job, working, etc. Wow, that must be a revelation to you. People actually don't think about UFOs 24/7! (That's sarcasm by the way). Instead of getting paranoid delusions about UFOs, aliens and government cover-ups. All you exopolitics display the classic signs of a fringe cult praying on the naive and impressionistic people.
Dear Salla. I want to come back to my previous statement that Hawking sais not to seek contact with aliens. He is not the only one to say something like that. On the other hand, he sais that befor we take contact, we first have to know who they are and what there intentions are. But how can we have an idea who they are if we refuse contact? This is a inconsistency wouldn't you say. This conflicting argument makes only sence if he means that public disclosure will only come when "they", whoever "they" are, come to a final conclusion what the real intentions of the alreaddy visiting aliens are. As long as "They" are not sure, "They" will not go public. Well, let me help them a bit. The grey aliens are biological robots. Don't do bussiness with them. The humanoids are very nice people, but they don't like bussiness. It's prehistoric attitute for them. That's very frustrating for the powers to be. But because they are human, they are not perfect. Don't trust humanoids who do bussiness.
All you exopoliticans is just plain b.s. Show me an actual alien and I'll take back my word. And don't tell me there are aliens here in human guise. That is a sign of paranoia and related mental illness.
Hawking sais in the documentary that physics is everywhere the same, since Newton. Therefore it is conseveble that the laws of live are also the same everywhere. If this is the case, is evolution of live on other planets also the same exept of minor differences? That is a very important question still to be answered. I guess a planet with an evolution of live harvests minerals, plants and animals. But if there is also a species that can think, feel, invent paint etc. is it so stange to think that the human level on an other planet is more or less the same as here? This option is as possible as are other options like alien spiders with asid blood, bubbels of a green substance, our creatures that live in the center of the sun. I like to think that most people will only be really interested in aliens that look and think more or less like us and this is I guess mutual. If there are aliens on earth, I think that they look very much like us, why else whould they be here? To chat with ants?
Ramon, see http://www.newmessage.org/
Fine to be a skeptic, but why are you still on this site and if you believe that people who believe in Ufo's are mentally unstable and/or wasting their time, then why are you skeptics wasting YOUR time on this site? Hmmmmmmmmm, makes you wonder! LOL
I don't doubt there are "aliens" in this universe. What I question is alien visitation. Why, of all the planets, would aliens pick us? And why is there no solid evidence of aliens here? To date there is no credible scientific proof of aliens here. So it's very simple, no proof, no aliens. All those so-called "evidence" are fakery design to catch the gullible.
Yeah, I'm glad Dr. Hawking has finally seen my videos at Etigrail. Well, someone has. It's hard to be sure if his name and degree were not merely used by the psy-op boys -- words put into his mouth, etc. No one better for this sort of thing, poor man. A ready-made puppet, I should think. As if he's going to say anything anymore. Don't know what took (him) so long, as I sent him the pertinent info, must have been two or three years ago. I guess his reader flunky put my e-mail in the "junk" file.
The logic presented in this mildly interesting documentary seems valid enough, though I would take issue with a few of the conclusions. But I'm glad he (or they) didn't assign to him much credence re the "UFO" myth. Nonetheless, considering what's going on with the "Exopolitics" movement, the Last Free Day planners still toy with the idea of using this nonsense for some psy-op or other. They better be careful, though. Very tricky subject (& so are "They!").
The "official" Hawking brain is clueless, like everyone else, when it comes to just how advanced aliens (i.e. the one that beta-tested in October 1992) are. As for the danger issue, it appears we lucked out. This time. We may even have their protection, though I shouldn't bet the farm - er, planet - on this.
Hawking hardly launched the debate. perhaps he sparked renewed interest in the "established media", but that will fizzle like a flood. i agree that an "official" Plan C type of situation will not begin until the "ETs" begin to lower their communication to our level of intel. if some crop circles and the testimony of "abductees" is accurate, they seem to use thought forms and symbols rather than written language. humans trying to decipher this is akin to us communicating directly with higher apes via spoken word. the apes simply don't have the faculties to speak as humans don't have the telepathy or knowledge of their symbols to directly exchange ideas with ETs.
i have been witness to 8 sightings since Dec 2008. SOMETHING AMAZING is operating in the skies of Earth and it sure doesn't appear to be of human design. i agree, we don't have "hard evidence" to poke, prod, and measure. but it's getting very close to this. look at the wave of IR night vision evidence....WOW!!!
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Hawking Alien Invasion Comment "Drive-By Science" Says R&D Engineer
by Clarence Cleary
The world has had time to digest the latest pontification from eminent physicist Stephen Hawking, but what they didn't know is that the man who claims to have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex is prone to make "quips" that are less science than they are satire. So says noted research and development engineer Marshall Barnes who has published a new article about Hawking's proclamation that we shouldn't broadcast signals into outer space for fear that alien armadas could arrive and be as about as good for us as Christopher Columbus was for the Native Americans.
(Read the full story at the topix.com space forum, extension T8QGD5N7VV5B8KNRC )
paul davies says that part of the anthropic principle is that life is almost programmed in - thus other life....the goldilocks planets - but we may realise when we are mean't to (as part of the "program" , the physical operation of things....much as the aliens did in their region of space.... at the "right" time....the bits of "information" are released by the universe into the minds of men... a new evolutionary leap.....
Open my real X-Files at www.stargate-chronicles.com
I experienced these facts at Kennedy Space Center, Florida 1958 to 1992
I am being isolated for this reason.
Clark
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Fascinating how people of this tiny speck of dust think of themselves. Life exists in untild numbers out there and has evolved far beyond our wildest imagination. I've met them, worked together with them for the peaceful evolution of this world.
If you scientists were so fantastic, why do we have wars, poverty, greed? why do 4% control 80% of all assets? This planet is beutiful beyond comparison but the two legged bacteria on its surface need to be eradicated for this planet to blossom.
waterlooper suck a cock and leave not even your mother wants you same goes for james black
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