{"id":18017,"date":"2015-10-01T00:16:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/stephen-hawking-says-nomadic-aliens-might-crush-us"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:35:16","slug":"stephen-hawking-says-nomadic-aliens-might-crush-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/stephen-hawking-says-nomadic-aliens-might-crush-us","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking says nomadic aliens might crush us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,\u201d Hawking told El Pais. \u201cTo my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny how math can make you paranoid. Even if it\u2019s entirely reasonable paranoia. The discovery of water on Mars is, for the non-mathematical at least, the first indication that something out there might be alive or might once have been alive.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Technically Incorrect: The famed physicist says that simple math makes him believe there are aliens out there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/s\/stephen-hawking-says-nomadic-aliens-184238112.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,\u201d Hawking told El Pais. \u201cTo my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.\u201d It\u2019s funny how math can make you paranoid. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64041,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions\/64041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}