{"id":9543,"date":"2010-05-03T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/05\/are-aliens-good-or-bad-earthlings-intriguing-debate\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:30:17","slug":"are-aliens-good-or-bad-earthlings-intriguing-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/05\/are-aliens-good-or-bad-earthlings-intriguing-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Aliens “Good” or “Bad” for Earthlings? : An Intriguing Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I thought I was reading views of some UFO enthusiast and controversy lover\u2026 but as I read along it turned out to be<\/a> the Canadian Defense Minister and the world famous astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking!<\/p>\n

Now, they both are entangled in the debate \u2013 \u201cAre Aliens GOOD for Earthlings or not?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Mind you, the question is NOT whether \u201cAliens EXIST or not?\u201d. The debate seems to have made the assumption that this is a moot question. They obviously do. Now the question on hand is were they and will they be good to us and for us?<\/p>\n

Hawking thinks invasion of the Aliens will be like Columbus visiting America and our fate will be akin to that of the Native Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they (aliens) wanted to use our solar system, for some super project, our complaints would be like an ant colony protesting the laying of a parking lot,\u201d Hawking has said in a new documentary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer, however, feels otherwise. He thinks that Aliens have been visiting us for decades or even millenia and serving us well. A lot of modern \u201cdiscoveries\u201d have been \u201cinspired\u201d by our friends from outer space.<\/p>\n

Hellyer told the Canadian Press that \u201cthe reality is that they (aliens) have been visiting earth for decades and probably millennia and have contributed considerably to our knowledge.\u201d He said our computer screens have their origins in alien spaceships. \u201cMicrochips, for example, fiber-optics, they are just two of the many things that allegedly \u2013 and probably for real \u2013 came from crashed vehicles,\u201d the Canadian said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hellyer laments that Hawking is indulging in scare-mongering against the Aliens \u2013 oh no.. not the illegal aliens from Mexico \u2013 but the ones from outer space!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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