Friday, July 17, 2009

Stephen Hawking on ETs

I will admit that this has absolutely nothing to do with debate. So sue me. It really sums up the whole situation of man versus bug-eyed monsters (if any). And I freely admit that, before today, I did not know that there was such a journal online as the Daily Galaxy.

If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of life on Earth is correct, Hawking says "there ought to be many other stars, whose planets have life on them. Some of these stellar systems could have formed 5 billion years before the Earth. So why is the galaxy not crawling with self-designing mechanical or biological life forms?" More...

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