ET-to contact or not

we wud all love to know whether alien life exists or not. We have believers as well as non believers. Seeing the enormity of the number of galaxies out there its highly probable that life (intelligent ) does exist somewhere outside Earth. The point is , is it wise to search for extraterrestrial forms of life & try to contact them ? what cud B the repurcussions?Do share your views.

Their arrival, he says, would be like Columbus landing in the Americas, "which didn't turn out out very well for the Native Americans."

The 68-year-old Hawking speculates on alien life in a new documentary on the Discovery Channel in which says advance life-forms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize."[/quote]

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I personally have a different view. Agar ET civilisation humse advanced hai to most probably woh log humein pehle dhoondh lenge. Agar sab yahi sochte rahe hi doosri ET civilisation humare liye ghatak ho sakti hai to phir koi kisi se kabhi contact hi nahi kar sakega and that would be really shameful. Let us explore this anant brahmand, let us look for other people around in the universe. Let us understand this place.

@ Solidsnake- yes , I read his statement and kind of agree . I mean if we do contact hostile aliens what do we have to defend ourselves with. The example that he quoted about Columbus discovering America & fate of the natives cud very well be repeated .Curiosity can kill the cat 😉

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

It all comes to a risk-benefit ratio. From my perspective, the benefits seem more lucrative and far outweigh risks.

Originally posted by: angie.4u

Thats a positive view to have !If the aliens find us first they wud be more advanced then us. If they happen to be peaceloving then we are in luck, otherwise theres little we could do. The chances of aliens finding us seem to be much brighter than vice versa.

Originally posted by: slumdog

One thing I fail to understand if ET are way advanced than us Earthe people , then why they are presumed or figured as looks that resembles to forefather of monkeys. If they are really technologically advanced they must have mechanism or technology to make them look better than us . If their physical apperance somehow looks like we think, then I believe they wont be selling mirror in their territory.