Posted on 08/09/2010 11:25:34 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has some advice for the people of Earth - it's time to get off.
"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space," Hawking said to Big Think , a global forum that includes interviews with experts.
"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. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
The physicist called humankind's survival "a question of touch and go" and referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 as one time people narrowly avoided extinction. He also referred to the 22,600 stockpiled nuclear weapons, including 7,770 still operational, scattered around the planet.
If that doesn't drive us off, University of Sussex astrophysicist Dr. Robert Smith said global warming may reach a point "where all of Earth's water will simply evaporate." He said life will disappear on Earth long before the 7.6 billion years some say the aging sun will expand and destroy Earth.
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I’ll get in my chevy Volt and hit warp speed to nowhere.
“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,” Hawking said.
He’s right — if one thinks that there can be a “long term future”.
Earth: Abandon Steven Hawking.
Gravity gets in my way.
I nominate Hawking to be first! Followed closely by BHO and entourage, Pelousy, Reid, and the rest of the libtards! They can start by going to Iran, which it seems is another world altogether.
He who suggests, should go first.
We are too busy working on our mandated Muslim Outreach Program to spend any time working on technologies to achieve your goal.
Surely you support this sacrifice in the name of tolerance.
Signed,
NASA
Already posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2567304/posts
The heavens are God’s throne and the earth is His footstool. See ya there when heaven and earth are one.
Sorry for the dupe guys!
Where does he say we should “abandon” the earth? Bad headline.
Well, duh. The only problem is that a Socialist world government will NEVER allow large scale space travel. Its too good an escape route.
I think he has already done so.
When people become so technically and conceptually brilliant, that part of the brain which governs common sense
(pretty small in most cases anyway) is squeezed into, well, a black hole.
Steve can go first.
Utter chaos and no productivity!
Humans would starve to death in a matter of weeks.
Hey...that gives me an idea. Maybe conservatives should go on strike!
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