Jack Kirby + Stephen Hawking in "Martians Go Home!"

Jack Kirby, quoted circa 1972:
"I see no wisdom in the eagerness to be found and approached by any intelligence with the ability to accomplish it from any sector of space. In the meetings between 'discoverers' and 'discoverees,' history has always given the advantage to the finders."

Kirby was referring to the Jupiter Plaque, an early-70s project to send humanity's contact information into space for alien lifeforms to discover...

Kirby's belief, much like that of noted super-physicist Stephen Hawking, was that any lifeform capable of finding us would most likely see us as some pitiful indigenous creatures standing in the way of some healthy colonial resource-stripping...

The accompanying Kirby art piece is his interpretation of what he'd've offered to the project if asked; West magazine did a piece asking various creative types for their spins on the concept + this was The King's contribution, showing Man as a race of powerful superbeings as a sort of 'Back the fuck up' to the rest of the Universe...


A 2010 quote from Stephen Hawking (seen here in his rarely public animation form):

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." (You kinda gotta hear it said in yer head in his voice to get the real impact...)
 
 
Clearly an excellent case of great minds thinking alike...
 
And a tv series - Ghost King + the Hawk - featuring Jack "The King" Kirby's Ghost and Stephen Hawking (+ his intelligent BattleChair9000, which'd sound as much like Kit from the original Knight Rider as is possible) battling aliens would be better than any number of shitty Fringe + V + the like shows that dribble like babyshit across my tv screen...

Ghost King can, of course, draw anything into existence with his magic pen, like monsters or armies or walls or doors or holes, all the while chompin' down on an ectoplasmic cigar... And The Hawk can use his physics-powers to create wormholes, harness quarks, confuse + hypnotize others with his super-intelligent make-me-sleepy-talk, and woo another lovely guest-star every week... Heroes, powers, aliens, BattleChair9000...all's we need now is a gorgeous lab assistant who also happens to be a trained assassin or something... played by Bai Ling?