De: R Heiden <rwheidenn2@yahoo.com> Título: 2010-04-26 Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader-Telegram, p. 10A (SETI,S.Hawking) EXPANDED Fecha: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Para: richheiden@yahoo.com

AP article datelined London, about Stephen Hawking saying it would be dangerous for us if aliens visited earth. I have this from these Wisconsin newspapers, all April 26, 2010: - Eau Claire ?Leader-Telegram,? p. 10A (top of the ?NATION/WORLD? page), ?Hawking: Aliens may pose risks.? Last of 3 items in the ?In Brief? column, with credit at end to ?From news services.? All 5 paragraphs. - La Crosse ?Tribune,? p. A5, ?Hawking: Aliens may pose risk to humans,? AP from London. Para. 1-4. - Madison ?Wisconsin State Journal,? p. A1, ?WATCH THOSE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS/ In Hawking?s universe, aliens ?too risky.?? Para. 1-4. None of the papers includes the byline. -- Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Chippewa Herald, April 25, 2010. (Maybe not in print?the clipping service did not send it.) GOOGLE NEWS [accessed April 26] Stay home ET. UK scientist: Aliens may pose risks Chippewa Herald - Apr 25, 2010 The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out ... http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/www.chippewa.com/news/science/article_103a6d2f-c953-53cc-9e52-0595ca456198.html Stay home ET. UK scientist: Aliens may pose risks Story Discussion Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 6:42 am | (0) Comments CAPTION Dave Einsel  FILE - This April 5, 2010 file photo shows astrophysicist Stephen Hawking of England presenting a lecture titled, "Out of a Black Hole" at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas. Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestial life. The Discovery Channel said Sunday, April 25, 2010 it will broadcast "Stephen Hawking's Universe" in Britain next month. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel) British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist, but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky." The 68-year-old scientist says 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." He speculates most extraterrestrial life will be similar to microbes, or small animals _ but adds advanced lifeforms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize." The Discovery Channel said Sunday it will broadcast "Stephen Hawking's Universe" in Britain next month. -- Milwaukee (Wis.) channel 6 GOOGLE NEWS Stephen Hawking: Aliens may pose risks FOX6Now.com Milwaukee - Apr 26, 2010 The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out ... http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/www.fox6now.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-bc-eu-britain-dangerous-aliens,0,5468754.story Stephen Hawking: Aliens may pose risks The Associated Press 1:19 PM CDT, April 25, 2010   LONDON (AP) - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking... [TEXT SAME AS Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Chippewa Herald] == London (UK) Sunday Times. This is reprinted (via the Web) in the ?UFO Newsclipping Service? (Edwardsville, Ill.) no. 490, May 2010, p. 3 (but without the last paragraph). UFONS followed this (on the same page) with a response posted elsewhere by Michael Cohen. http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece >From The Sunday Times April 25, 2010 Don?t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking CAPTION Hawking has depicted what kinds of alien could be out there Jonathan Leake 721 Comments [AS OF MAY 29 [wrong?must be nlt 5/24], 4:58 PM] Recommend? (597) THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist ? but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact. The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world?s leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe?s greatest mysteries. Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space. Hawking?s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. ?To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,? he said. ?The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.? The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals ? the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its history. One scene in his documentary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators. Another shows glowing fluorescent aquatic animals forming vast shoals in the oceans thought to underlie the thick ice coating Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity. He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: ?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.? He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is ?a little too risky?. He said: ?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.? The completion of the documentary marks a triumph for Hawking, now 68, who is paralysed by motor neurone disease and has very limited powers of communication. The project took him and his producers three years, during which he insisted on rewriting large chunks of the script and checking the filming. John Smithson, executive producer for Discovery, said: ?He wanted to make a programme that was entertaining for a general audience as well as scientific and that?s a tough job, given the complexity of the ideas involved.? Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars, showing that planets are a common phenomenon. So far, all the new planets found have been far larger than Earth, but only because the telescopes used to detect them are not sensitive enough to detect Earth-sized bodies at such distances. Another breakthrough is the discovery that life on Earth has proven able to colonise its most extreme environments. If life can survive and evolve there, scientists reason, then perhaps nowhere is out of bounds. Hawking?s belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as likely places to look. Similarly, Lord Rees, the astronomer royal, warned in a lecture earlier this year that aliens might prove to be beyond human understanding. ?I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can?t conceive,? he said. ?Just as a chimpanzee can?t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.? Stephen Hawking's Universe begins on the Discovery Channel on Sunday May 9 at 9pm == FEATURED NEWS ITEM FOR YAHOO http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100425/sc_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking Aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans: Hawking CAPTION AP ? FILE - This April 5, 2010 file photo shows astrophysicist Stephen Hawking of England presenting a lecture ? Sun Apr 25, 6:56 pm ET LONDON (AFP) ? Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking warned Sunday. "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports. The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry. "Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking. The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States on Sunday. On the probability of alien life existing, he 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." Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos. Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilisations. CAPTION Click image to see more Stephen Hawking photos AFP In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star -- in 2439. But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years. The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun. Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth. -- COMMENTS As of April 26, 1:55 pm, there were 14,126 comments! (from 19 hours ago to 18 minutes ago) == FEATURED NEWS ITEM FOR YAHOO IN SPANISH (FROM ANOTHER WIRE SERVICE) http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/mx.news.yahoo.com/s/25042010/91/n-world-fisico-dice-seguro-existan-seres.html Fisico dice que es casi seguro que existan seres extraterrestres y q domingo 25 de abril, 09:44 AM Londres, 25 de abril (Télam).- El físico y cosmólogo británico Stephen Hawking dijo que "casi seguramente los seres extraterrestres existen y que los humanos "deberían hacer todo lo posible para evitarlos" mientras que el profesor Brian Cox cree que hay vida inteligente "incluso dentro de nuestro sistema solar". Hawking, miembro de la Real Sociedad de Londres y autor de clásicos como "Breve historia del tiempo", afirmó que es "perfectamente racional" asumir que existe vida inteligente fuera de la Tierra en una entrevista realizada para el Discovery Channel, que reproduce la agencia Ansa. El científico advirtió que los seres extraterrestres podrían invadir la Tierra para abastecerse de recursos. "Si los aliens nos visitan, las consecuencias serán similares a cuando Cristóbal Colón desembarcó en América, algo que no terminó bien para los nativos", declaró el experto, que también es profesor de la Universidad de Cambridge. Hawking sostiene que en lugar de tratar activamente de hacer contacto con extraterrestres, los humanos deberían "hacer todo lo posible para evitarlos". "Sólo tenemos que ver lo que ocurre con nosotros mismos para ver cómo podría transformarse la vida inteligente en algo que no querríamos conocer", agregó. "Para mi mente matemática, sólo los números hacen que sea perfectamente racional la existencia de seres extraterrestres. El verdadero desafío es comprender cómo serían los aliens", aunque también admitió que probablemente la vida fuera de la Tierra esté conformada por microbios simples. Por su parte, el profesor Brian Cox, físico de la Universidad de Manchester, dijo hoy a la BBC que también cree que "haya vida inteligente en el Universo, incluso dentro de nuestro sistema solar". El experto sostuvo que "organismos podrían estar presentes bajo la capa de hielo que cubre Europa", una de las lunas de Júpiter. "Más cerca de la Tierra, está creciendo la posibilidad de que exista vida en Marte. Sólo sabremos con certeza cuando la nueva generación de cohetes, creados para hallar vida, sean enviados en las próximas décadas a las lunas de Júpiter y a las planicies áridas de Marte", concluyó. (Télam) rjv-ahe 25/04/2010 11:42 == UFO-UpDates-List Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140 Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:00 AM From: "ufo-updates-list-request@two.pairlist.net" <ufo-updates-list-request@two.pairlist.net> To: ufo-updates-list@two.pairlist.net Send UFO-UpDates-List mailing list submissions to ufo-updates-list@two.pairlist.net Today's Topics:    1. ?    3. UFO UpDate: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:21:40 -0400 From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post@ufoupdateslist.com> Subject: UFO UpDate: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers - <ufo-updates-list@two.pairlist.net> Source: The Times, London, UK http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/tinyurl.com/2g76h4c April 25, 2010 Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist - but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact. The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world's leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe's greatest mysteries. Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space. Hawking's logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals - the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its history. One scene in his documenttary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators. Another shows glowing fluorescent aquatic animals forming vast shoals in the oceans thought to underlie the thick ice coating Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity. He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: "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." He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is "a little too risky". He said: "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." The completion of the documentary marks a triumph for Hawking, now 68, who is paralysed by motor neurone disease and has very limited powers of communication. The project took him and his producers three years, during which he insisted on rewriting large chunks of the script and checking the filming. John Smithson, executive producer for Discovery, said: "He wanted to make a programme that was entertaining for a general audience as well as scientific and that's a tough job, given the complexity of the ideas involved." Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars, showing that planets are a common phenomenon. So far, all the new planets found have been far larger than Earth, but only because the telescopes used to detect them are not sensitive enough to detect Earth-sized bodies at such distances. Another breakthrough is the discovery that life on Earth has proven able to colonise its most extreme environments. If life can survive and evolve there, scientists reason, then perhaps nowhere is out of bounds. Hawking's belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as likely places to look. Similarly, Lord Rees, the astronomer royal, warned in a lecture earlier this year that aliens might prove to be beyond human understanding. "I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive," he said. "Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains." Stephen Hawking's Universe begins on the Discovery Channel on Sunday May 9 at 9pm [Thanks to Greg Boone for the lead] A UFO & Related Phenomena E-Mail List operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp UFO UpDates Archives are available at http://correo.hispavista.com/Redirect/www.ufoupdateslist.com == UFO-UpDates-List Digest, Vol 3, Issue 142 Monday, April 26, 2010 11:00 AM From: "ufo-updates-list-request@two.pairlist.net" <ufo-updates-list-request@two.pairlist.net> To: ufo-updates-list@two.pairlist.net Send UFO-UpDates-List mailing list submissions to ufo-updates-list@two.pairlist.net 3. UFO UpDate: News Links - 25-04-10 (UFO UpDates - Toronto) -- Two entries in #3: Aliens Are Out There - Professor Stephen Hawking Says So.... 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