Lyn Mary Veronica Russell's blog: "A Slice of Life"

   There has been much controversy over Steven Hawking’s latest documentary “Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking”. One of the World’s most respected astrophysicists, Hawking is boldly stating that extraterrestrials likely exist and warns us not to try to contact them as it could be dangerous. Hmmmm… The man has a point. Can you imagine? If another intelligent life form is out there, pray that they aren’t like us. Since the earliest existence of Homo sapiens, we have attacked each others’ tribes and societies. In order to survive before the invention of agriculture, we were Nomads of sorts, moving and conquering each other to survive. Even when we developed agriculture that didn’t seem to be enough for us.. as population grew, so did the conquering… survival of the fittest, so it would seem. We explored the world by means of water travel and had little regard for the Native people that occupied the lands that we travelled to. Kill them, trick them, steal from them, and enslave them. Hard to believe that good old Christopher Columbus was a part of this abomination; but he was. Even in their own societies, we have monstrosities such as Qin Shi Huang, who we recognize today as China’s first emperor. His power was reinforced by torturing, enslaving, starving and brutally murdering his own people and those of the lands that he conquered. For what?... Because he could, really. It was never enough… it never is enough. Although thousands of years have passed, humans have not learned from these past mistakes. We still invade, murder and torture people And our weapons have evolved into ones of mass destruction. Save us all if there is intelligent life forms out there searching for a new planet that they can conquer and colonize after using up the resources on their own home planet. Then again, do we really have to worry about that? By the time they reach this planet it will be a wasteland of our own making.