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Has anyone seen the latest thing that Steven Hawking said about what would happen if aliens came to earth?  I hate to say this, but it seems odd to me that someone of such great intelligence would make such a stupid comment.  He told us that if aliens came to our planet, that it would be as it was when the Europeans came to America and destroyed the Native American people.

While I agree that aliens would be completely more powerful than us, and have the ability to do whatever they want with us, to presume that aliens would wish to invade, or have some kind of control over us is to presume that we know how aliens think.  Aliens being interested in conquering our planet is like a human wishing to conquer and control an ant hill.

Of course there are some humans I suppose who do wish to “try” and control ant hills… my father is one of them.  I still remember him constantly ruing the ant hills, claiming that if he ruined them, the ants would build houses elsewhere.  I am sure my father is not the only one to do this.  But this kind of destruction shows the absolute need for control.

Now, I suppose the aliens might want some kind of crazy, ultimate control like this, but if what we have seen from alien behavior in the past is any kind of guide, it is quite obvious to me, and probably to many others, that none of us truly knows or understands what an aliens motives might be.  But I have a feeling that if they really wanted absolute control, they would have attacked us already.

I have my own ideas of what the aliens might want, but I have talked with many others who have their own ideas, which leads me to believe that this is not an open and shut case.  Therefore, for Steven Hawking to think he knows what will happen when aliens land is a bit presumptuous and I do not really think that someone of his intelligence should limit his opinion to only one possibility.

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