re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

Don't forget Mr Spock survived the Dikironium Cloud, "Vampire Cloud" because he's blood is based on Copper unlike the human Iron.:)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/04/16.jpg

re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

I've always found Erich von Daniken's books interesting in trying to find our religious link with that of our alien past. Much of it's bunkum but some of it is quite thought provoking.

I first read "Chariots of the Gods" when I was 13 in 1972. When I moved house 5 years ago I refound the original paperbook I bought in a shop (called OBM, I think) in Hobart, Tasmania. His theories haven't moved on much since then, but neither has relgion.

Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

Oh Mr Hawking.
You media whore!

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I was thinking X-Files (Fire - IIRC):D

Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

Close - Firewalker (season 2).

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I still think that us humans were stowaways on a visiting alien spaceship, a sort of ship's rat!

Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

I wonder how that theory would match up with the fact that some monkeys have 93.5% matching DNA?

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There were Monkeys on board as well. :)

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Obviously just a coincidence :) Even I knew that :dunce:

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Looks like I was right after all. And we only needed to go as far as California to find it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11886943

Long-standing? Yeah, by me. No other sod believed it.

So when do I get my Nobel prize?

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Punky, what you mentioned about other lifeforms not needing oxygen seems to already exist so totally supports your theory.

Under the sea many miles down they have found deep volcanoes releasing sulpher and gasses and they found life down there where there is not even any light.

Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

Anaerobic lifeforms - they were here long before us....

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That wasn't what I meant. Plants don't need oxygen to live. However this isn't a radical change in biochemistry that aliens would need to survive on other planets.

Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"
 

Punky, I was responding to Halycon...

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Oops, sorry.