Posted on 05/05/2017 7:27:22 AM PDT by Phlap
... Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist turned apocalypse warning system, is back with a revised deadline. In "Expedition New Earth" — a documentary that debuts this summer as part of the BBC’s "Tomorrow’s World" science season — Hawking claims that Mother Earth would greatly appreciate it if we could gather our belongings and get out — not in 1,000 years, but in the next century or so.
You heard the man — a single human lifetime. Is this nerd serious?
Thanks, Steve.
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I’ve lost interest in his ‘predictions/forecasts.’ He seems to always be focused on ‘gloom and doom.’
This guy has been turning into a real nutjob over the past couple of years. The only time you hear from him is when he’s worrying about aliens killing us or telling us that we have to leave the planet in 100 years.
Typical liberal atheist.
Stephen Who???
Liberals adjust these types of doomsday clocks by simply subtracting seconds proportionate to the amount of socialists that are booted out of office.
“The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are! We’re going away. Pack your s***, folks; we’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace either—maybe a little styrofoam. … The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas—a surface nuisance.”Guess Hawking thought that George Carlin was a prophet.
Hawking is overrated and losing what relevance he had.
I have been enjoying reading a lot of Science Fiction lately and was especially intrigued by the “Three Body Problem” trilogy. Almost uniformly the authors that have covered this subject point out that once humanity has become divided yet again by a new axis of division. “Up Well” vs “Down Well” the same thing will ultimately result as has every other division of humanity.
It seems to me a powerful argument can be made that “getting off this planet” could actually be the mistake that ends humanity rather than saves it. In several ways, the least of which it could bring us into competition with a consciousness that would have remained unaware of our existence and would also be hostile. In truth, it would likely cause inequities that humans would use to rationalize the murderous behavior we seem to all to happily engage in as a group but abhor as individuals.
I will not abandon this ship.
What a rocket scientist!
If I'm not mistaken everyone will be evacuating the planet in one human lifetime (their own). Therefore choose wisely where you will be traveling to next. Eternity is a long time.
Just another way for the elites to try to get away from us.
Has been turning? He’s a puppet with a liberal voice impressionist. See the Twilight Zone episode with Cliff Robertson.
Hmm he’s right in sync with the upcoming release of ALIEN: Covenant!
for stephen hawking... the end is near.
Steven Hawking is an absolute idiot, anyone that thinks he’s got something to offer might be more of an idiot ...
I can’t take credit for it, but some clever Freeper referred to him as ‘Davros’. (It’s a Dr. Who thing.)
He pretty much declared us extinct.
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