Before his death, Stephen Hawking gave humans a chilling warning about meeting aliens

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Before his death, Stephen Hawking gave humans a chilling warning about meeting aliens

Before his death, Stephen Hawking warned that we should be wary of seeking to communicate with alien civilisations. In 2017 the astrophysicist warned that intelligent aliens may be marauders who plunder resources from fertile planets round the galaxy, conquering and colonising at will. He reiterated this worry in the 2017 documentary, Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places. Hawking