Aliens Probably Not Friendly, Says Genius Physicist Stephen Hawking

Hawking made headlines with this story back in April 2010, concluding that aliens most likely do exist, but that we should not be trying to contact them.

“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.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece

The 68-year-old scientist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth might well be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36769422/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/hawking-aliens-may-pose-risks-earth/#.TkXr_YLyBWU

Here is one film-makers idea of what the leading thinker of our time might be talking about...