{"id":12206,"date":"2010-04-25T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-25T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:44:00","slug":"be-warned-about-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/12206-be-warned-about-aliens.html","title":{"rendered":"Be warned about aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist, but warns that communicating with them could be &#8220;too risky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, &#8220;which didn&#8217;t turn out very well for the Native Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He speculates most extraterrestrial life will be similar to microbes, or small animals &#8211; but adds advanced lifeforms may be &#8220;nomads, looking to conquer and colonize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery Channel said Sunday it will broadcast &#8220;Stephen Hawking&#8217;s Universe&#8221; in Britain next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?228084-Aliens-may-pose-risks\"><strong>Aliens dangerous?<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}