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Outer Space
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is one of the smartest guys in the world. He is my intellectual superior by the same margin that I am smarter than a houseplant. I respect his opinion about life in the rest of the universe, so I respect his conclusion about alien life. He thinks that it exists and he has math on his side. The numbers really add up for Steve.
The burning question is what are the aliens and what do they want from us? In most cases, the answer would be nothing. The chances are very good that alien life forms are probably one-celled simple organisms that are not that bright. Sure they could take somebody like Paris Hilton in a best of five checkers showdown, but they would be no threat to earthlings because they haven’t even invented the wheel, let alone interplanetary travel.
But Stephen got out his slide rule and concluded that there is a possibility that alien life forms might be smarter than us. In fact, they may be a lot smarter.
If Captain Kirk ever taught me anything about outer space (beyond the existence of a bountiful crop of ultra-hot space babes), it was this: Most alien life forms are a lot smarter than us. Exceptions might include that giant lizard guy who took a serious a**-kicking from Kirk, and every space hottie who ever fell for his cheap come-ons.
So Captain Kirk and Stephen Hawking both agree that we may be up to our a** in alligators when it comes to alien life forms. For Kirk it may only be an intergalactic paternity suit. For the rest of us, it could mean a planet with the cupboards cleaned out by unwelcome guests.
It would be a much bigger disaster than those high school parties I attended when the parents were away and the rule book got tossed out the window. There was not much left after those adventures that wasn’t consumed or tipped over. I suspect that an alien invasion of earth would be much the same, according to Hawking. Except that we invited them. That wasn’t the case for three quarters of the high school party guests.
So maybe we should go with Steve-o on this one and cancel the galactic invitation. If ET and his buddies are smart enough to get here, then they are more than smart enough to run the show upon arrival. It’s the stuff of every B sci-fi picture from the drive in era.
Jim Sutherland is a co-founder of mystarcollectorcar.com-dedicated to the average guy in the old car world. We also like to take on non-car issues on a regular basis on our daily blog because it makes us look a lot smarter than we really are.Plus you can insult a car guy about his taste in music or movies but never hack on his car-those guys always have tire irons handy.
