Stephen Hawking’s chilling extraterrestrial life warnings have resurfaced amid 'intelligence trap’ studies and interstellar object alarm bells being rung by esteemed Harvard researchers.
British cosmologist and former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Stephen Hawking, is one of history’s greatest minds.
Before his death in 2018, the revered scientist strongly opposed the idea of contacting aliens to draw them to our planet, as he issued an eerie warning about life among the stars.
Hawking’s opinions have reentered rhetoric after an international team of researchers began studying a so-called 'intelligence trap.’
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This concept suggests that successfully contacting a UFO could draw the attention of a malevolent species that destroys humanity, as per the Daily Mail.
The study comes amid Harvard University researchers who claimed a so-called giant comet named 31/ATLAS could potentially be an alien probe.
Professor Avi Loeb and other scientists alleged there are signs that the interstellar object has been artificially created, including its extremely unusual course that will make close passes by three planets: Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
Back in 2004, Hawking issued a warning about alien life.
“The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us,” Hawking warned.
“The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.”
The famed theoretical physicist said something extremely similar amid a 2010 episode of Into the Universe.
He told docuseries viewers: “If aliens ever visit us, the outcome might be similar to when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
Despite strongly opposing the idea of actively sending messages into space, alerting potential off-world beings of our presence in the universe, Hawking was a passionate advocate for more passive intelligent life searches.
He previously supported projects like Breakthrough Listen - the astronomy project aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth.
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he warned.
31/ATLAS is expected to pass within 223 million miles of Earth later this year.
If the comet does turn out to be aliens, then ‘two possibilities’ will follow.
“First, that its intentions are entirely benign and second, they are malign," researchers said.
Of course, the comet could still just be a comet. But some conspiracy theorists are convinced it could be aliens after hearing Baba Vanga’s reported prediction.
The Bulgarian mystic, who died in 1996, is alleged to have left a realm of prophecies for each year, including the idea that aliens would successfully contact the Earth during a ‘major sporting event’.
There are a handful of stellar sports outings lined up for the rest of the year, including a handful of F1 races, the Women’s Rugby World Cup, and the WTA/ATP finals in Riyadh and Turin, respectively.
So, more than enough time for extraterrestrial beings to get in touch.
But like Hawking says, aliens knowing of our existence may not be a good thing.
Ella Scott