Expert Doubts Aliens Would Visit Earth to Terrorize Us
_Featured_, Extraterrestrial, UFO Friday, May 25th, 2012
Jill Tarter, formerly of SETI
Hostile aliens abound at the multiplex these days, terrorizing our planet in films such as “Battleship” and “Men in Black 3.” But science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials, said Tarter, who announced Monday that she’s retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth.
“If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets,” Tarter, who is stepping down as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., said in a statement.
Tarter’s confidence in aliens’ benign intentions puts her at odds with famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that extraterrestrial civilizations may venture our way to strip-mine our planet for resources.
Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won’t want to enslave or vaporize us, veteran E.T. hunter Jill Tarter says.
Hostile aliens abound at the multiplex these days, terrorizing our planet in films such as “Battleship” and “Men in Black 3.” But science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials, said Tarter, who announced Monday that she’s retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth.
“If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets,” Tarter, who is stepping down as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., said in a statement.
Tarter’s confidence in aliens’ benign intentions puts her at odds with famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that extraterrestrial civilizations may venture our way to strip-mine our planet for resources.
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47566032/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T7_NG8VQQ4k
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She’s quite right. The kind of tech that these ETs would have acquired would render manual labor offered by physical organisms and the need to plunder planets for other resources obsolete.
Hawkings is smart guy, but sometimes his viewpoints appear as constrained as his physical condition.
I’d put him in my Top 5 for candidates who could likely benefit most from an ayahuasca session.