Posted on 08/09/2010 8:53:02 AM PDT by Scythian
It's time to abandon Earth, warned the world's most famous theoretical physicist.
In an interview with website Big Think, Stephen Hawking warned that the long-term future of the planet is in outer space.
"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet," he said.
"I see great dangers for the human race," Hawking said. "There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. The Cuban missile crisis in 1963 was one of these. The frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future."
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Personal interpretations of a geological record cannot predict the future.
Geophysical events require causation.
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Algeron Sydney, Discourses on Government.
I didn’t say it was. Though the concept of doing the necessary work in life and getting rewarded is scattered throughout.
Not ever, even recently (400K years ago) there was a similar event. It does look like we're getting ready to go back in the freezer though. ;)
I agree with him. He’s not talking about the next 20 years, he said thousands to a million years. Eventually there will be some incident that will wipe out the planet. We need to diversify our number of planets. Something will happen before the sun goes out. Comet, mobile black hole, epidemic, something will happen in a 100,000 years. We will survive better if we inhabinated a bunch of planets.
WOW! What a great idea for a sci-fi thriller! The Manchurian Physicist!
No, those passages are a description of what is going to happen to the entire physical universe at the end of the millenial reign.
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Yup, and probably sooner than we think.
It’s not just the DNA code, but the accomplishments of the species. As for souls, you can handle your own, we’re talking about species survival here, what happens after bodily death is a completely separate 100% unrelated discussion.
What a retard
Good point...however I tend to believe that even if we can (physcially) move a planet like Earth, the chaos that would be caused might throw other planets out of orbit and potentially pull Earth right back where it was.
Furthermore, when Earth’s volcanic and plate tectonic activity stops due to the mantle cooling off (a couple billion years from now) that could pose another problem.
Not that any of us will be around to see it...
It’s not personal interpretations, it’s the record. The geological record shows that ice age is the norm and temperate times are the exception and we’re living in the longest temperate time by a lot (the previous longest is 10,000 years so being 2000 years longer is a big push).
Geophysical events have causes but we only have theories as to what those are. One theory is the one you’ve put forth, but since we’ve never gotten to see an ice age come on we don’t know if it’s correct.
Meanwhile there’s still plenty of other ways the rock can break.
He needs a rest.
Hey Hawking! You first.
Maybe. Maybe not. The people that God was giving those words to didn’t really have much of a handle on the physical universe outside of earth, so discussing non-earthly things to them directly would be pointless. For one thing they didn’t have the language to write it down, it’s hard to describe an asteroid strike to a people that are still 1700 years away from even having a word for it.
There will be no species survival. The entire physical universe, and time itself is set to expire, and we must be changed from our corruptible physical, temporal existence to one that is incorruptible.
Those that plan for what cannot continue can count on having their plans dashed.
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Well, he might be more athier than some, but he's probably not the athiest.
As for me, I used to be much athier than I am now, because I am not athy at all anymore (although I used to be).
“The Road” - That was a disturbing movie...I seemed like a world where 95% of the population had already died and/or were in the process of dying. I couldn’t figure out why all animal and plant life had died, but humans haven’t. The only food source - what you could find left in cans, or other humans.
In a nuclear war, a significant population would remain, and you would think eventually a semblance of civilization would remain behind to re-populate and re-build. In this movie...there wasn’t enough left behind to rebuild and group together to figure out a way to survive other than canibalism.
Alrighty then, as long as the importance of the body's use as a vessel for the soul is a given, and that accomplishment not discounted, I'm in agreement that we need to take flight...
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