This is a serious article (on the home page of Yahoo!) about whether space aliens will invade earth (including why they would invade earth).
Excerpt:
“In movies, aliens only come here for
two reasons,” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) told Life’s
Little Mysteries, SPACE.com’s sister publication. “They either come
here to find some resource they don’t have on their own planet, or they want to
use us for some unauthorized breeding experiment.” These scenarios play on
our most primal human fears of losing the resources we need to survive or not
being able to reproduce, Shostak said.
In reality, it isn’t logical to think that
aliens would want to do either of those things, Shostak said. Space travel is
expensive and requires an enormous investment, he said.
Also in the article: Stephen Hawking apparently thinks we have nothing to fear from space aliens.
I just love how people will give an opinion about something they can’t possibly know and somebody will actually take them seriously. If Hawking says we have nothing to fear from aliens, then it must be true.
There’s so many ways to make fun of this article, my head is spinning.
My questions for the experts on alien behavior:
Mr. Shostak, isn’t it true that the aliens from planet Mordar can travel 50 galaxies for only $12.95?
Mr. Hawking, with all of your experience hanging out with aliens, isn’t it true that some of them aren’t very nice and would like to hurt us just for fun, such as the Galagas?
So many questions, so little time–until the aliens attack! Don’t believe the alien deniers. If we don’t take action now, it will be too late. Even if I may be wrong, can we afford not to take action? This is about our children and their children.
