British physicist Dr Stephen Hawking warned on his new TV show that Extraterrestrials (ETs), if they ever arrive, might be looking for conquest and plunder. He believes aliens could be more interested in exploiting our natural resources than sharing their technology with us. Is Planet Earth prepared to take them on? Or, will the might of the rich/developing nations exhausted fighting their own wars?
Long before Stephen Hawking’s alien warning, the National Security Agency was preparing to communicate with alien life, reports CSM. “National Security Agency cryptologist Lambros Callimahos wrote his unclassified paper on communications with aliens some 40 years ago.
“Like Hawking, Mr. Callimahos assumed that any aliens who contact Earth probably will be our technological betters. Unlike Hawking, Callimahos thought this would be great. Imagine ‘the enormous potential gain from our contact with a superior civilization,’ he wrote in the NSA Technical Journal in 1966.
“Talking to E.T. could require the development of communication symbolism that is as easy as possible to comprehend, Callimahos wrote. He proposed a series of simple electronic beeps, first representing numbers, then increasing in complexity to indicate letters and mathematical processes.” See here…
Meanwhile scientists haven’t found E.T. just yet, but they may be pinning down the best places and ways to look for alien life during future space missions. NASA scientists are currently considering a list of 28 future science missions that could help discover signs of said extraterrestrial life. More here….
Hawking says if intelligent alien life forms do exist out in the vastness of the space, they might not be the friendly cosmic neighbors the people of Earth are looking for. An advanced spacefaring extraterrestrial civilization could end up wandering the universe in enormous spaceships on the prowl for vital materials after consuming the natural resources of their own world, Hawking explains in an episode of the show “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking,” which premiered on the Discovery Channel. See here…
Swaraaj Chauhan describes his two-decade-long stint as a full-time journalist as eventful, purposeful, and full of joy and excitement. In 1993 he could foresee a different work culture appearing on the horizon, and decided to devote full time to teaching journalism (also, partly, with a desire to give back to the community from where he had enriched himself so much.)
Alongside, he worked for about a year in 1993 for the US State Department’s SPAN magazine, a nearly five-decade-old art and culture monthly magazine promoting US-India relations. It gave him an excellent opportunity to learn about things American, plus the pleasure of playing tennis in the lavish American embassy compound in the heart of New Delhi.
In !995 he joined WWF-India as a full-time media and environment education consultant and worked there for five years travelling a great deal, including to Husum in Germany as a part of the international team to formulate WWF’s Eco-tourism policy.
He taught journalism to honors students in a college affiliated to the University of Delhi, as also at the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication where he lectured on “Development Journalism” to mid-career journalists/Information officers from the SAARC, African, East European and Latin American countries, for eight years.
In 2004 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) selected him as a Trainer/Mentor for India under a European Union project. In 2008/09 He completed another European Union-funded project for the BBC WST related to Disaster Management and media coverage in two eastern States in India — West Bengal and Orissa.
Last year, he spent a couple of months in Australia and enjoyed trekking, and also taught for a while at the University of South Australia.
Recently, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Studies at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, a beautiful city in North India designed by the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students there.
He loves trekking, especially in the hills, and never misses an opportunity to play a game of tennis. The Western and Indian classical music are always within his reach for instant relaxation.
And last, but not least, is his firm belief in the power of the positive thought to heal oneself and others.