27 Apr
2010
27 Apr
'10
9:25 a.m.
My personal opinion is that Hawking is projecting human traits onto the aliens. I think it far more likely that any civilization capable of interstellar travel would have evolved beyond such primitive behavior. At least one would hope. And if I'm wrong and we go the way of Neanderthals or, at best, some indiginous peoples who are still hanging-on by a thread despite European contact, well, that's life in the food chain, folks.