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Is Stephen Hawkings losing it?
koolmoecraig:
"what meaningful, tangible contribution has he made to our lives? He's got a lot of unproveable theories and some books" - Pinball Jim
Epyx:
Just a few things to add:
1) When you realize how efficiently ALS kills it is all the more amazing that only a handful of people like Stephen and Jason Becker have lived beyond a decade.
2) My thoughts are that any alien species that has been around long enough to develop interstellar travel should be compassionate enough to have lived through the wars, genocide etc within its own species. My feeling is if they made it that long and far they would have to be more explorer than warrior...ie more vulcan than Klingon.
I think a warlike species like a Klingon would have killed itself off long before developing interstellar travel.
Benevolance:
I wouldn't go so far say all of our technology advances were war-related, but I do agree with PBJ that war is a significant factor for innovation.
Dartful Dodger:
Exploring for exploration sake. That makes a lot of sense when you're 9 years old visiting your uncle's farm, and there’s no cable tv. Nothing (man or beast) explores unless they have a goal and that goal needs to be worth the travel. If expenses are higher than the profit nothing no matter how much they value knowledge would do it.
Traveling across the galaxy just to see where The A-Team transmission originated from sounds unlikely. If they’ve come looking for us it's because they want something from us.
Loafmeister:
Hmmm, although its seen as war related, it's more accurate to believe it's "survival" related and that can imply other factors than war. For example, let's say you're a race that happens to reach our level of maturity (or immaturity eheh), but on a star system where the sun is going into some phase that would lead to all life being snuffed out within 50 years. if that could be detected by said alien race, that 50 years would see HUGE jump in technology, more so than any war driven tech boost because you wouldn't have that political and killing crap that gets in the way.
:) naturally, war has certainly been a huge factor in our own history but it doesn't always work that way. The first 1500 years AD had lots of war and not a whole lot of advancements.
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