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The most interesting thought of the day came when reading Stephen Hawking claim that intelligent alien life forms almost certainly exist — but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky." OMG… he has a point. My thoughts turn to the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, but with a dramatically different ending!

Citing a MSNBC article (Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth), "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet," Hawking said. "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 colonize whatever planets they can reach.”

In his new documentary titled Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking, the 68-year-old British physicist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth might well be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, which he adds "didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

Most extraterrestrial life might be similar to microbes, or small animals. These beings might exist beneath the Martian surface or on Europa. Expanding outside our solar system, mathematical probabilities strongly favor life’s existence elsewhere. "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."