In Mark Memmot, one of the bloggers of npr's "The Two Way" blog, wrote about how the astrophysicist Stephen Hawkings warns people not to go searching for Alien life. According to Hawkins he does not think that the Aliens will be very nice as most explorers to new lands are. Memmot ends the article with a question: "Well, what do you think?"
The attempt to search and find life on other planets has been in the minds of people for probably thousands of years. Scientists are always exploring even the depths of earth itself so branching out and looking for life on other planets will be beneficial to mankind itself. Just because Hawkings does not think the Aliens will be nice does not mean mankind should hide in a hole and keep to themselves. Those who are most successful take the risks that make them successful. When life on other planets are discovered mankind should take full advantage of that and try to find out as much about them as possible. Hawking fears that the exploration of Aliens may lead to us what happened to the Native Americans when Aliens landed. "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,"(Hawkings). The problem is that hiding away does not do anything. Hollywood and their movies about Alien attacks have only instilled fear of a foreign race that is still unknown.
citation:Aliens_and_Crop_Circles. Digital image. Commons Wikimedia. Wikipedia. Web. 3 May 2010. .
Memmot, Mark. "Don't Tell The ALiens We're Here, Stephen Hawking Says; They Might Not Be Friendly." Web log post. Npr.org. National Public Radio.org, 26 Apr. 2010. Web. 3 May 2010. .
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