| Well a veritable bevy and torrid of all manner of views | | | | really is and at seeming great risk to his authoritative |
| an angles came out of the proverbial woodwork | | | | positioning within his field and at seeming risk of |
| pertaining to mine and other like responses concerning | | | | perhaps losing his chair; the very same that Newton |
| Stephen Hawking's view on Extraterrestrials including | | | | sat in. This leads me to the second issue at hand: The |
| the similar viewpoint of Author and Experiencer, | | | | motivation behind Mr. Hawking's statement in the first |
| Whitley Strieber. I will probably never get through all of | | | | place. |
| the e-mail. | | | | By putting this very risky and fringy testimony out to |
| Let me just say that first off, I think this is a very good | | | | the public, it would seem that Mr. Hawking would have |
| thing. Many people are now actively engaging their | | | | something to possibly lose by doing so: The highly |
| minds and perhaps referencing their own experiences | | | | esteemed Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge |
| in regards to all of this and thusly applying their own | | | | University that as mentioned before, as was held by |
| views, some of which are a bit heated and emotional | | | | Sir Isaac Newton as well as the respected |
| in nature. Again, I find this a wonderful thing. We are | | | | authoritarian stance that comes with it. These are titles |
| thinking! | | | | of reasoning and rationale. Mr. Hawking's statement |
| I will address the two main concerns that repeatedly | | | | was one of severe nonreasoning and no rationale |
| seemed to come up and those are the onslaught of | | | | from a very reptilian brained, fear based viewpoint that |
| readers that defended Hawking's stance which, in my | | | | was delivered with a sense of probability. |
| opinion, was heavily steeped in the Extraterrestrial | | | | I have heard several people point out to me that |
| Hypothesis and the second factor of curiosity was the | | | | Occam's Razor works best in dealing with the ET |
| motivation behind his statement to begin with which, to | | | | issue and that an ETH is simply an application of it to |
| my way of thinking, is probably the most important and | | | | bring one to this, its simplist solution. I have only one |
| interesting aspect of all. | | | | question to propose to all of you proponents of the |
| So for years, many folks have been asking the great | | | | Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: |
| thinking minds in High Science what their opinions or | | | | When at any time or place has the Paranormal in any |
| views are concerning Extraterrestrials and in some | | | | of its myriad manifestations ever shown itself to be a |
| cases the Paranormal. We all know that noted | | | | phenomenon of reason and rationality? When? Never! |
| Physicist, Michio Kaku has addressed some of these | | | | Not once in the last 70 years of High Strangeness |
| issues on many occasions and to a satisfactory if not | | | | have Paranormal Events ever lent themselves |
| an expectantly profound level. That being said, I think it | | | | susceptibly and ably to Occam's Razor. Not once. |
| is safe to say that that same type of expectancy | | | | There are always very many unanswered questions |
| would be applied to Mr. Hawking should he have come | | | | left in its slashing wake that are all unsatisfactorily dealt |
| forward with anything by way of an Extraterrestrial or | | | | with when it is used on any aspect of the Paranormal. |
| Paranormal nature. | | | | One size does not fit all! |
| We as a society tend to generalize I think and by | | | | Now back to the motivation behind Mr. Hawking's |
| doing so, we look at the likes of Stephen Hawking and | | | | statement. Why would Mr. Hawking place an |
| we say, "There is a great thinker with big ideas" and | | | | outstanding career on the line with such a brazenly |
| then in turn with that same assessment have found | | | | outlandish and outdated viewpoint of a now well |
| that perhaps we have granted this type of | | | | known innocuous theory? Who stands to gain anything |
| assessment irresponsibly. Shame on us. I think most of | | | | by it? Do governments? What actions in governments |
| us, because of the very scope and breadth of Mr. | | | | could possibly be enacted by taking advantage of Mr. |
| Hawking's work, expected something as equally | | | | Hawking's high standing? Is military involved? |
| cerebral if not pithy concerning his view on ET. It turns | | | | I smell money. |
| out that his views on ET are very much based on an | | | | Call me cynical. That is fine. I will be digging and digging |
| old and tired paradigm that has never been | | | | further into this aspect of all of this and I will hope that I |
| substantiated in any way. | | | | find nothing but that his statement is just one of folly |
| The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis or ETH, since its | | | | and whimsy although I suspect that because of the |
| inception nearly 70 years ago, has yielded nothing of | | | | precariousness of all of this and what is at risk for Mr. |
| any substantial evidence whatsoever in any way, | | | | Hawking, it is not. This is so out of character for him so |
| shape or form. This is the shock of Mr. Hawking's | | | | as to be again, shocking. |
| statement in my opinion. Surely he would know this. | | | | One thing is for sure; we will all be watching what |
| Surely he has done is homework and research and | | | | happens very closely. The spotlight of scrutiny is now |
| found, very quickly, that the ETH has bore no fruit and | | | | on him and if there is anything to ferret out, it will be. |
| hasn't even left a promising trail of crumbs to follow to | | | | The relentlessness of the media and the landslide of |
| said fruit. | | | | attention that Mr. Hawking has now garnered because |
| I think, and I will speak for myself personally here, that if | | | | of it, will be as is always, the focus of the global public |
| Mr. Hawking were to make a statement of any kind | | | | at large irregardless of its accuracy. This is all I have |
| concerning ET or any aspect of the Paranormal, that it | | | | for now. But I have a feeling this is only just the very |
| would unmistakably smack of a more psychological | | | | beginning. |
| flavor or bent. It did not. Again, this is the shock of it. It | | | | |