Aliens 'have hijacked NASA spacecraft'

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Aliens 'have hijacked NASA spacecraft'

 

14/05/2010 - 14:26:30

A UFO expert has claimed aliens have hijacked a NASA spacecraft and are using it to try to contact Earth.

 

Voyager 2, an unmanned probe that has been in space since 1977, is sending strange messages that are confusing scientists.

 

NASA claims it is a software problem with the flight data system.

 

But German academic Hartwig Hausdorf believes it is because it has been taken over by extraterrestrial life.

 

 

Read more: Aliens 'have hijacked NASA spacecraft' | BreakingNews.ie

 

Run for your lives!

[Sandman]

Sweet! Hope it is aliens and not a fucking software error.

[Mel Wood]

Sweet! Hope it is aliens and not a fucking software error.

 

Or that they've mistakenly picked up signals from the lab microwave oven, as I think happened once. :whatever:

[Sandman]

I'm hoping we do establish contact with other planets lifeforms in my lifetime. And that they don't wipe us out instantly.

[Funkasy]

 

We come in peace!

[Mel Wood]

I'm hoping we do establish contact with other planets lifeforms in my lifetime. And that they don't wipe us out instantly.

 

So do I. Hawking reckons they'd most likely whup our arses though

 

THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.

 

Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space.

 

Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.

“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”

 

The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals — the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its history.

 

One scene in his documentary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators. Another shows glowing fluorescent aquatic animals forming vast shoals in the oceans thought to underlie the thick ice coating Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter.

 

Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.

 

He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “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.”

 

He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “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.”

 

Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars, showing that planets are a common phenomenon.

 

So far, all the new planets found have been far larger than Earth, but only because the telescopes used to detect them are not sensitive enough to detect Earth-sized bodies at such distances.

 

Another breakthrough is the discovery that life on Earth has proven able to colonise its most extreme environments. If life can survive and evolve there, scientists reason, then perhaps nowhere is out of bounds.

 

Hawking’s belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as likely places to look.

 

Similarly, Lord Rees, the astronomer royal, warned in a lecture earlier this year that aliens might prove to be beyond human understanding.

 

“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive,” he said. “Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”

 

Raid Earth for our resources and move on? They'd probably come down, watch 'Hole In The Wall', see that Jordan's a wealthy woman, taste Builder's Breakfast flavoured crisps, and haul their tentacley amorphous blobs straight back to Alpha Centauri.

[Section_31]

Hawking is full of shit, he's the most profound case of positive discrimination the world has ever seen. Seriously, the best thing that ever happened to his career was when he threw a wobbler.

[Sandman]

So do I. Hawking reckons they'd most likely whup our arses though

 

But how cool would it be if they just wanted to hang out with us?

 

 

They'd probably come down, watch 'Hole In The Wall', see that Jordan's a wealthy woman, taste Builder's Breakfast flavoured crisps, and haul their tentacley amorphous blobs straight back to Alpha Centauri.

 

 

We'd probably kill/imprison them upon landing though. And carry out horrible tests in special underground 'facilities'. So if they do show up, it's probably in their interests to wipe us all out first.

 

*sigh*

 

[Mel Wood]

Handy guide, just in case.

[RoboRiise]

 

VGER is coming.

[Guest davelfc]

I'll be really pissed off if this just turns out to be Alans again.

[Pdool]

 

Right, with the election and now this, it's time for me to retire into the cupboard under the stairs and await our new alien overlords.

[Arl arse]

Fuckin hope so, the way the global economy is about to implode with a global government controlled by the banking system imposed upon the people. I'll be first in line to be abducted, begging them to get me & my family the fuck out of here.

[Guest davelfc]

Aliens will take one look at this planet and will probably wonder where the fuck their dinosaurs have gone and what the fuck have these weeds done to our lovely garden.

 

I expect us all to be dead within a week.

[Anubis]

[Sandman]

So what's up with this? Was it the microwave?