Arachon said:
That guy was at NORAD? Why do you have loonies handling your nuclear weapons?
We have loonies placed at every level in our society. It helps keep things more interesting.
On topic though, I find it hard to believe that we are alone in the universe. It's just too massive to think that we are the only sentient beings in it. While I like the idea of ET coming to earth and giving us a high five, I that Stephen Hawkings is right, and if they could get here, they would most likely obliterate us.
On the other hand though, any race with the technology to travel the stars, they should probably have evolved past the whole strongest = best philosophy, leaving an opportunity for mutual understanding.
But than again, I don't see the people of the world accepting them all that readily. I mean if people are still hating and killing each other over different books that were started before there was even writing, than they probably won't like what goes against there holy books. (I am primarily looking at the christians here because that is what I know best, but it also could apply to any other major religions as well.)