11. Stephen Hawking is a giant intellect so I hesitate to disagree with him
but surely any life advanced enough to travel between stars wouldn't need to seek out inhabited planets for their resources. There have to be plenty of resources available throughout the galaxy without spending time and resources seeking out rare inhabited planets to plunder.
I'd be more concerned about aliens following some crazy religious imperative to eliminate or enslave anything other than their own kind. I really can't see where they could have any kind of economic incentive to seek us out.
To be fair, I haven't seen the show yet so he may have some arguments that I haven't thought of. I love this kind of programming so I already have it in the TIVO.
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