Posted on 08/09/2010 8:53:02 AM PDT by Scythian
Still, we need to act and act fast, Hawking stated. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space."hard to argue with that statement and I don't see where that involves abandonment of Mother Erf.
There’s a great athiest mind for you folks.
Another nut-case (”We’re all gonna die” Chicken-Little) heard from.
In spite of “Climate-Gate” and other politicized science scams, he still thinks that people will believe him just because he’s a “scientist”.
Hawking never gives up his “dream” of conning someone (or taxpayers) into paying for a rocket ride into space for him before he dies.
Pathetic.
It seems to me to be a reasonable statement. It’s in our natures to colonize in order to insure the continuation of our species and finding other planets, etc., is a logical progression. And it’s increasingly apparent that it will at some point become necessary. Or we can just go away. But in the meantime, the natural desire to hedge our bets by spreading the risks through migration will be the same as it ever was.
I thought Hawkings illness had advanced so far he was not going to able to communicate anymore, but I guess that is not true?
I’m glad we can still be able to know what he is thinking and saying, but this seems a little unworthy of his great mind. Seems a little sensationalistic. Then again, he’s probably correct.
“Very long term he is correct, nothing we need to panic over that is certain.”
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Wow, all you have to do is read God’s word to get that mesasage, but there is nowhere in the universe to go that doesn’t suffer the same fate: Nonexistance of the Physical, temporal universe. Sure its going to happen, but God has provided for us before he does it.
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Dr Hawking also warns against talking to aliens.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/25/dont-talk-aliens-warns-stephen-hawking/
That’s going to piss off some sci-fi geeks who early awaiting aliens from the planet Vulcan.
“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!”
After you Steve.
"One of these days Alice. POW! To the moon, Alice, to the moon."
“Then again, hes probably correct.”
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That would make exactly... uhh... ONCE!
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It’s his meds.
So this is a way to fund a large space station for the government and rich and famous?
I’m sure glad you stated that. I was packing up and getting ready to leave. Whew...........I like my neighborhood.
If he’s concerned about problems that are sociological in nature, they’ll be with us no matter where we’re living.
If he’s concerned about problems in our physical environment, they’re going to be a hell of a lot easier to solve in our present location, where we are already present, with a viable atmosphere and oodles of resources, than they would be on any extraterrestrial site at which all the factors above would be major problems.
If he’s worried about disasters on a cosmological scale (asteroid impact, etc.), those can be worked on in the background; long-range, we should have plenty of time to prepare, and if it happens short-range, we’re screwed anyway.
How a guy so much smarter than me can be so much dumber just amazes me.
DON'T PANIC!!
“Or we can just go away.”
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Available choices:
* Heaven (recommended)
* Hell (not recommended)
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