Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes.

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.

Ray Kurzweil

If aliens visit us

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

Stephen Hawking

Farewell

Apparition

Launch

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Cosmic Diversity

Self-replicating spacecraft

We couldn't see any windows or propulsion systems in the alien spacecraft. It seemed to resemble a living organism. 

Colonist

What will aliens look like?

They could in fact look remarkably similar to ourselves, if they come from worlds similar to our own. Our bodies are an optimised design for an intelligent creature that lives on Earth. We call this convergent evolution.

Standing upright, their limbs would be free to manipulate tools for developing technology. A head on top is better for self defence and gathering food.

Having eyes in their head allows a short nerve pathway to the brain. So those imagining eyes on wavering stalks could be disappointed.

Super Earth Alien

Resides on a yet undiscovered Super-Earth...

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Encounter

The space shuttle crew gasped as the alien spacecraft materialized before them. It appeared to mean no harm. Tentacles drifted slowly as if in a gentle ocean current; sensing, probing. 

The best thing about space travel

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein

Astronaut

At home

Alien Oceans May Flow on 'Super-Earth' Planets

So where's the fusion reactor?

Alien outsourcing of micro fusion reactor repairs.

Alien in Bio-Suit