25.04.2010 ~ Nomad aliens and our post primitive society

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
  --- Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has done a good job with making his listeners feel inadequate, 200 years following the virtual genocide of the primitive Native Americans our baseball cap wearing automatic weapon wielding civilization can only ponder what the will of such an advanced alien race would be when dealing with us!