Though we haven't been listening long, it does make you wonder why we haven't heard from anyone...
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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You don’t have to, but it does make your replies kind of stupid and pointless when you’re just making stuff up. For all intents and purposes then you’re talking to yourself.
But what if the earth pops before we’re ready. There’s nothing that says we have to be the guys across the finish line at all much less first. There are billions of galaxies, each with millions of stars, most with at least a couple of planets. Now either the whole thing was made to be our playground, in which case why are we staying here; or there’s competition out there, in which case why are we staying here.
Though we haven't been listening long, it does make you wonder why we haven't heard from anyone...
Doesn’t make me wonder at all. We haven’t been listening long, and we’re not listening in the entire known carrier wave spectrum. And the distances are pretty severe, astronomical even ;) You kind of have to figure life isn’t that common out there, and then the life has to be intelligent enough to make broadcasts, and have done so long enough ago for the signals to get here, and the signals have to be in the parts of the spectrum we’re paying attention to (which is the ones we use), and we’d actually have to figure out what it is.
Snort! Glad I wasn’t drinking or eating when I read that.
I don’t know how much of the universe is our playground, but I haven’t the slightest question that it was all created for us.
It will all end when he is done with Earth; his word clearly says that. The purpose of life on Earth is eternal life after Earth.
Words of wisdom. You are so correct, a pity only people with blinders would not see that.
Well if it was all created for us then we should be exploring it all.
There’s a good chance human life on Earth will be unsustainable before the universe goes through any major upheaval. So in order to get to eternal life after Earth there’s a good chance we’ll need to first get to mortal life after Earth, and of course in order to get to there we first need to get to mortal life off Earth.
There is plenty of life ot there, but it isn’t biological; they were each individually created, and were not intended to reproduce.
Two thirds of them are obedient to their creator, and only contact us when told to do so, and they don’t need radio; the other third are disobedient, and are condemned. They do try to mess with us but not by radio either.
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“There’s a good chance human life on Earth will be unsustainable before the universe goes through any major upheaval.”
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No, that is flat out false!
The end will definitely be here on Earth as God has said.
That doesn’t mean that there won’t be any attempts at exploration.
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I think life is pretty common where conditions permit but intelligent life may be all too uncommon. At least any that has risen above the point in development where most life self-destructs. After all, the time in history when mankind learned to generate unnatural electromagnetic waves of any power to creating the means of destroying civilization on a planetwide scale is but a nanoslice (new word) of the cosmic time scale.
Per discostu... Though I've seen evidence in my life that interactions between the two do indeed occur.
Of course the money part there is “where conditions permit”, we’ve got close to 3 dozen good sized non-sun objects in our solar system and 1 (maybe 2 if you believe some of the Mars theories) supports life. The rest are too small or too big or too close to the sun or too far or don’t rotate nicely or just can’t manage to scrape up a good atmosphere. That’s why I’m kind of leaning towards rare, somewhere in the neighborhood of lottery winning odds. Then of course they have to get to intelligence without screwing themselves up, and without a normal catastrophic event, we aren’t the only planet that periodically gets smacked by asteroids.
“but I see a large asteroid smacking into us, not an angry god.”Then you’re willingly blind. ........................................................
We tend to come up with simplistic answers when things presented are beyond our comprehension. Do we really know, that which we do not? The human brain is still within it’s infancy, and in some cases it hasn’t reached that point. (Yeah, don’t bother we know what your answer will be to that.) As we evolve further who knows what great things lie ahead. You may poo poo science fiction, but how many sci fi stories became sci fi fact. Bible prophesies have been around for over 2000 yrs. I would think by now we would have all been destroyed.
The answer God made things happen is too simplistic of an answer. Of course if its a good thing God did it, if its a bad thing we blame Satan or Bush. I have a sci fi question for the bible, “How does it describe life on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter?” I’m sure there is several flexible references that can be used.
I don’t think I am blind, but I do seek better answers to difficult events that can’t be explained simply. If the earth split open tomorrow, we would say God did it because he was angry, not that there was a pressure build up in the center to cause it? Every time there is a disaster here in the USA, the Mullahs are quick to say Allah is punishing the Great Satan. Every time there is an Earth Quake in the Mid East we think God is punishing them. We know of course that the earth’s mantels shift and Hurricanes cause damage, yet we call them an act of God. If we dismissed science we’d all be living in mud huts and riding donkeys.
Life goes on somewhere...
Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
>>You don’t have to, but it does make your replies kind of stupid and pointless when you’re just making stuff up. For all intents and purposes then you’re talking to yourself.<<
Well actually I was having a conversation with a reasonable FReeper until he/she demanded control of me. I do not give into demands for cash for rocketships nor demands for statements. Requests for clarification I am totally open to.
So, yes it was fruitless from the beginning.
I didn’t demand any control of you. I simply pointed out that I never said anything about NASA so when you said this: “you are foolish to think that human ingenuity wouldn’t have done it without NASA.” It was a strawman argument. I even ignored the whole insult thing. No demands, just pointing out that if there was somebody foolish in the discussion it would be the person erecting strawman complaints about NASA to the person that never even mentioned NASA.
I'm talking microbes here... I think the seeds of life are floating throughout the universe and as soon as conditions on an asteroid smacked body recover enough, those seeds of life take root!
You may shortly see that of which you speak... :)
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