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Stephen Hawking: Human Aggression Could 'Destroy Us All'
Live Science ^ | February 23, 2015 | Tanya Lewis

Posted on 03/16/2015 1:38:06 AM PDT by lbryce

Stephen Hawking may be getting some Hollywood love for "The Theory of Everything," a biopic about his life that earned actor Eddie Redmayne the best actor Oscar at last night's Academy Awards. But that hasn't stopped the world-famous physicist from issuing yet another warning about humanity's impending doom.

Human aggression threatens to destroy us all, Hawking said during a tour of London's Science Museum last week. The remark was in response to a question about what human shortcomings he would most like to alter. Hawking suffers from a neurological disease similar to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

A major nuclear war would be the end of civilization and possibly the human race, the Cambridge University professor said. Hawking called for greater empathy, and added that human space exploration is necessary as "life insurance" for humanity. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


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Wow. How profound. He figured that out all by his itty-bitty self? Who woulda thunk it?
1 posted on 03/16/2015 1:38:06 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

He is Dr. Wallace Breen....
http://youtu.be/sFU6hxFfJac


2 posted on 03/16/2015 1:47:05 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: lbryce

Brillant deduction.


3 posted on 03/16/2015 1:54:14 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."- Mark Twain)
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To: lbryce

Just because he’s good at cosmology doesn’t mean he’s good at everything else.

There’s a dark side and a bright side to human aggression. The former destroys, the latter invents, creates, discovers.


4 posted on 03/16/2015 1:56:57 AM PDT by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: lbryce

It hasn’t yet. And it’s been around awhile.


5 posted on 03/16/2015 1:59:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Moltke

He’s not good with cosmology either. All this stuff about black holes/dark matter/dark energy and big bang theory is a a big lie. I thought Global Warming theory was the biggest fraud, until I found out there was an even bigger fraud that’s currently being taught to us by main stream/establishment cosmologists. Their flaw? Their obsession with computer mathematics models over real science. They confuse science theory with science fact and they don’t change their theory even when reality don’t fit their models

Read up on “Electric Universe” Its the only theory that make sense


6 posted on 03/16/2015 2:26:37 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: lbryce
Thanks, Captain
7 posted on 03/16/2015 2:36:54 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: lbryce

He’s either the most brilliant man alive, or else he’s been watching science fiction movies.


8 posted on 03/16/2015 2:42:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: lbryce

Translation: Vote Democrat, free stuff, oh, and turn in those evil guns, OR ELSE.


9 posted on 03/16/2015 2:44:38 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

check out this

Electric Universe theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYzEy4GlcQI


10 posted on 03/16/2015 2:48:33 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Human aggression threatens to destroy us all

Thanks for the reminder doc, I think it's time to buy more ammo.

In other non-breaking, non-profound news, the world is actually getting less aggressive in totality. Although emerging weapons states seem to be swinging the world back toward instability.

11 posted on 03/16/2015 2:51:51 AM PDT by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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There’s a dark side and a bright side to human aggression. The former destroys, the latter invents, creates, discovers.


Bingo. You mess with human motivations and you might be very, very sorry. This is what liberals have been attempting through psychology and propaganda. I have no doubt some scientists will try to do be at the genetic level one day.


12 posted on 03/16/2015 3:17:33 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: 4rcane

So what is science?

If you agree science is repeatability, then so what?


13 posted on 03/16/2015 3:23:59 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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Human aggression by the Muslims with appeasement by the west will kill us all.

It is time for human aggression by the west to eliminate the threat of Islam once and for all


14 posted on 03/16/2015 3:38:17 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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He condescends too much. His contempt for people of faith and the aggression in his own heart he should address first.

But for left wing socialist scientists, he is their pope.

15 posted on 03/16/2015 3:43:58 AM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: lbryce

This from a genius. We should all pay heed. At least those for whom this is a revelation...


16 posted on 03/16/2015 3:44:55 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: rbg81

Mother Maybelle Carter: “KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE”. (Johnny Cash’s mother-in-law).

“There’s a dark and a cloudy side of life; There’s a bright and a sunny side, too..... Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side...”


17 posted on 03/16/2015 3:57:57 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: DCBryan1

Disregard the directive on the guns. Keep the guns.


18 posted on 03/16/2015 4:01:38 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: lbryce

Why does Steve still use a 1983 voice synthesizer?


19 posted on 03/16/2015 4:06:32 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: lbryce
Hawking is, at this point, just a ventriloquist's dummy through which his inner circle speak their opinions. (cf. Gabrielle Giffords).
20 posted on 03/16/2015 4:25:01 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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