Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is
Quotes 165. The quote today is by Stephen
Hawking. You know the famous English
theoretical physicist. You know,  the one
you might know for many many years, he
was in the wheelchair. Unfortunately his
health was getting worse and worse as
time went on.  I think he was suffering
from ALS but anyway let's get right to
the quote. "One day we might receive a
signal from a planet like this ... ' Meaning
some advanced planet. " But we should be
weary.'  We should be careful . " of
answering back. meeting an advanced
civilization could be like Native
Americans encountering Columbus. That did
not work out so well. "  Meaning of course
it did not work out so well for the
Native Americans and of course you know
Columbus and all the Explorers.  all the
colonists came over and eventually. 
conquered a lot of the Native Americans
So it didn't work out so well for them. 
So we would have been like the Native
Americans in this sort of situation. 
Let's,  let's continue with the note
here.  Stephen Hawking's made this quote
several years before his death. He is
warning us to think twice before
answering any communication that could
really be from an alien species. 
Hollywood has helped to form of the
public image of what aliens  may be like.  Some people
think they may be cute like ET.  Others
think that they must be so advanced that
they would only want to help us to solve
all Earth's problems. Yeah that's the idea that you
know if they could  travel all the way to
Earth,  they must be so advanced that you
think they advanced in many ways . However,
if we have learned anything from history
the more advanced civilization gets, it
does not make them more moral. We have we
have just as much
violence,  war,  cruelty as in the past. So
even though we have got more advanced
technologically speaking,  you know over
the many centuries and millennia even,  we
do just as bad things. So we actually
maybe we even do it better because our
technology is better. We can kill better
and there's still a lot more people
going on. So really just because we've
advanced technologically or
intellectually does not actually mean
that we have advanced you know morally.
Hey let's continue.  Stephen Hawkins is
warning just because society may be more
advanced than us will not necessarily
make them be benevolent. Benevolent is
you know somebody that is  just naturally good. 
They want to do everything for the good
of people. For the good of society. Their,  their
benevolent , the opposite is malevolent.
Which is like you know evil or bad. But
let's continue. Chances are they would
most likely be concerned for their own
benefit and progress. Just like if we
traveled to another planet and found a
species that was the level of like
prehistoric cavemen,  we would probably
just put our own interests first. You
should assume aliens may not be any
better. So even though they may be
technologically far ahead of us,  and we
don't really know if they all are. But if
if we did meet one like that that does
not mean that they would be benevolent.
That does not mean they would really
care about us or have our best interests
in mind. Maybe,  maybe they would be there
to to conquer us as Hawking's is
suggesting or take advantage of us in
some way. Exploit our resources or
something along that line. Anyway,  I hope
you got it.  I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it
was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
