Stephen Hawking has a question for you

CNNN ^ | 07-07-2006 | CNN

[HawaiianGecko]

The world is in a lot less chaos today than it was 90 or just 60 years ago. People who think that the world of today where we have less and less countries that are not democracies, where most countries have good working trade agreements, where people generally fly around freely, is in more chaos than it should be are simply stupid. I never thought S. Hawkins was stupid, but nothing says he's brilliant in all aspects.

 

[theDentist]

Hawking, stick to sub-atomic theory and leave the rest of it to us. If you hadn't noticed, most of the threats come from extreme communict or islamo-fascists. And we're knocking them down as fast as we can.

[bubman]

So the 'annointed' one thinks we won't make it past another 100 yrs. Well I got a question Mr Hawking; Why someone as smart as you say such dumb things? Stick to what you know not what you think you know.

Idiot!

[VOA]

From the Crusades to the the Commies, ALL of them want to "Save the race".

Let's be sure to include "The Zeroth Crusade".
The one in which a band of Islamics benevolently used the rule
of Damascus steel to grab much of the Middle East.

I'm not letting the excesses of the Christian Crusaders off the hook.
Just making sure the fuller context is mentioned.

[ops33]

A very good answer but too obivious for the intellectuals.

[MountainMenace]

"He who is good with a hammer sees everything as a nail".

Yet another example of an advanced stage of ACADEMENTIA.

[LRS]

I can just visualize the Eloi responses...

[rtbwood]

There is absolutely nothing radical about "Thou shalt not kill", "Thou shalt not steal", "Honor you father and mother", "No other Gods but the one true God". "Don't covet your neighbor's possessions, " and on and on. What values do you wish to substitute these values for? The God who made us, knows how we can live together in harmony. Society living by the Ten Commandments would survive. Everyone doing what is right in his own eyes is the thought of the day and will surely destroy us all. If it feels good, do it brings nothing but sorrow and self centeredness which cannot be sustained in a society where we are so interdependent on each other.

[DB]

Actually, I'd wager that the planet earth is more ordered today than any time in the past.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I wouldn't worry too much, dude's in a wheelchair.

[darth]

Steven Hawking is going to start a "mass murdering bunch of holy thugs"? Considering that several nations and terrorist groups are working diligently on bioweapons that can wipe humans off the planet a la Andromeda Strain, his question is intelligent and pertinent. In the short run it is obvious that we have to fight the terrorist groups and ideologies that motivate people to risk wiping all of mankind. In the long run, space colonization will insure that our species survives. Humans have always occupied new lands when the transportation hurdles are overcome. Why should the Solar System be any different?

[Dark Skies]

Nothing is any different than yesterday, last week, last year, or last cetury, and so on.

Er, here's a new development...islam with a nuclear sword.

[B.O. Plenty]

The answer of course, is to keep doing what we have been doing. It has worked for thousands of years....however if the liberals screw it up and hand over the world to islam, all bets are off.

The senerity prayer is problably a good place to go:

God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

[roaddog727]

The question nearly answers itself.

The key word here is "Chaos".

Systems (ALL SYSTEMS, mechanical, financial, human) go from order to disorder (Chaos) in an orderly fashion {Also Enthlapy and Entropy in these systems.} Only when these systems degenerate enough to reach order once again will we be able to continue our collective growth as a society as well as world community.

See also Entropy, Enthalpy and Chaos here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos

[LibertarianInExile]

"Hawking's question: 'In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?'"

ANSWER: The same way we always have, persistence and ingenuity. When has the planet ever been LESS in chaos? It's always the illuminati who sing the doomsday song loudest.

[sirchtruth]

Maybe if we started to live more closely to the standards set out by the Ten Commandments we'd stand a better chance of surviving another 100 years.

Amazing, a plan PROVEN to work, and what do we do? Run in the opposite direction of that standard, because we've garnered this false notion, TRUTH is relative.

[rwilson99]

My answer was along the lines of...

"Don't listen to environmental whackos."

[LibertarianInExile]

"The question is: Is the world in any more political, social and environmental chaos than in the past?"

Great minds think alike BUMP!

[RoadTest]

"how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

We can't assume that it will. However, if it does, it will be by the grace of God, not by anything man figures out or does or doesn't do. The little critter has an exaggerated ego.

[Recovering Hermit]

Isn't this guy supposed to be some kind of a genius?

He sounds more like John Kerry.