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  • Stephen Hawking: Why Isnt the Milky Way

    From the page: "In his famous lecture on Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?" If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of life on Earth is correct, Hawking says... more

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  • Reviewed by commerican on Aug 15, 7:31am

    Needs an editor.

  • Reviewed by eccentrix on Jul 23, 4:51pm

    I think that with the infinite amount of time available and the infinite amount of space and the infinite amount of possibilities in existence, it's not likely we'll find any other life.

  • Rated by Elentari1975 on Jul 23, 11:31am

    From the page: "We are used to thinking of intelligent life, as an inevitable consequence of evolution, Hawking emphasized, but it is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes. "

  • Rated by yobaba on Jul 23, 7:45am

    "We are used to thinking of intelligent life, as an inevitable consequence of evolution, Hawking emphasized, but it is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes. Intelligence, Hawking believes contrary to our human-centric existece, may not have any long-term survival value. In comparison the microbial world, will live on, even if all other life on Earth is wiped out by our actions. Hawking's main insight is that intelligence was an unlikely development for life on Earth, from the chronology of evolution: "It took a very long time, two and a half billion years, to go from single cells to multi-cell beings, which are a necessary precursor to intelligence. This is a good fraction of the total time available, before the Sun blows up. So it would be consistent with the hypothesis, that the probability for life to develop intelligence, is low. In this case, we might expect to find many other life forms in the galaxy, but we are unlikely to find intelligent life." Another possibility is that there is a reasonable probability for life to form, and to evolve to intelligent beings, but at some point in their technological development "the system becomes unstable, and the intelligent life destroys itself. This would be a very pessimistic conclusion. I very much hope it isn't true." But it probably is. A truly fascinating man.

  • Rated by ahctlucabbuS on Jul 23, 2:09am

    Well, if we're to have a probable chance of survival we'd better get rid of WMD. As it stands simplistic [on the other hand how can human nature be simplistic to us] nationalistic tendencies take presedence over the welfare of the human race. This does not mean that one, two or three powers are to have it while the rest don't. A complex matter for sure, let's hope we're up to the task of survival.

  • Rated by thewhizzer on Jul 23, 12:04am

    I reckon we have been visited by Extra terrestrials in the past many times as well...But we certainly are not using our intelligence by the way we carry on.. Can you blame them for wisely leaving us to ourselves

  • Reviewed by spydergreywolf on Jul 22, 9:07pm

    I think if there's any intelligent life out there it's wisely steering clear of us till we show signs of intelligence.