Posted on 11/07/2017 12:09:19 PM PST by Eddie01
According to Hawking, our planet will become overcrowded, and increased energy consumption will turn Earth into a ball of fire because of the rising population and exponential consumption. But he seems to have a solution.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race will cease to exist on Earth after humans turn it into a giant fireball by 2600 year.
To escape from the catastrophe, humans must "boldly go where no one has gone before," Hawking declared during his video appearance at the Tencent WE Summit in Beijing, as quoted by the New York Post.
The physicist appealed to investors to support his project Starshot Breakthrough, which involves a journey to the closest star outside our solar system – Alpha Centauri, one of the closest star systems at 4.3 light-years away from Earth.
The scientist hopes that the system may have exo-planets orbiting it, which could be suitable for life just like on Earth.
Starshot Breakthrough’s director, a former head of NASA’s Ames Research Center, also made an appearance in Beijing saying, "Maybe if all goes well, sometime a little after the middle of the century, we’ll have our first picture of another planet that may be life-bearing orbiting the nearest star."
Just a day earlier, Hawking appeared at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, to warn humanity about the development of artificial intelligence, saying, "AI could develop a will of its own."
"The rise of AI could be the worst or the best thing that has happened for humanity,” he added, explaining that robots are already taking over millions of jobs, and technologists must pause and focus not just on making AI more successful, but try and make it more beneficial to humanity.
According to Hawking, the timing might be faster than we think, as AI could outshine humans in just a few decades.
READ MORE: Stephen Hawking Warns AI Might Capture the World, 'Replace Humans Altogether'
The famous futurist and businessman Elon Musk has also previously warned about the future of the human race, as potentially superior artificial intelligence has already been created.
He'll will not be going to heaven. His soul will evaporate and hopefully not pollute the universe.
In one of his most brilliant comments, Hawking stated there could be no intelligent design because time did not exist before the big bang.
Hey Stephen, where did the big bang come from genius?
Ha! We are already supposed to be dead from Al Gore’s prediction!
I guess I should cash in my 401K then........................
Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race will cease to exist on Earth after humans turn it into a giant fireball by 2600 year....................Whew, OK I hope I have enough time to get things in order.
In the year 2625...if man is still alive...
He’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Truly.
Stephen Hawking has become a total flake. I wish people would quit listening to him when spouts crap like this.
“Just a day earlier, Hawking appeared at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, to warn humanity about the development of artificial intelligence, saying, “AI could develop a will of its own.””
That’s ok, Humanity will always be protected by the Three Laws of Robotics.
If “Wheels” wants to quote a sci-fi plot, I can, too.
He may be decent at complex math.
At history or futurism, he is a bust.
From a Darwinian perspective,people are one of the toughest organisms on the planet.
From a religious perspective, God’s will will be done.
“I guess I should cash in my 401K then........................”
You need to live like there’s no 2617!
I don’t care....
What he believes is NOT science. It is "scientism" - its a another fake religion, dressed as some kind of science because its spoken by a "science guy" - just like global warming. Hawking simply is projecting his own fears, doubts, values and beliefs - there is nothing "scientific" about it.
“The rise of AI could be the worst or the best thing that has happened for humanity” said a voice from a box
Technically, time doesn’t exist at all... it’s merely a system human beings made up to organize events so that we can describe them to other human beings.
And the future has already been determined and written down. So do we believe Hawking.... or God?
It will be way sooner than that the bible warns.
Every time I hear someone predict the future I think of this song:
“In The Year 2525”
by Zager and Evans
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa
In the year 7510
If God’s a-comin’ he ought to make it by then
Maybe he’ll look around himself and say
Guess it’s time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, woah woah
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing, woah woah
Now it’s been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it’s only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
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