Sounds goofy but actually quite interesting.
Hawking made the unnerving claim in a new documentary on the Discovery Channel that intelligent alien life-forms almost certainly exist but that communicating with them could be “too risky.”He added that the aliens would claim that earth was founded on a Judeo-Alien ethic.
The 68-year-old scientist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, “which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
