Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Send all the Liberals away, Earth will be saved.
/mark
IMO Hawkings is whacked out. Yes, if you absolutely deny God, then the fate of humanity rests solely with... humanity. If that were the case, then we would have all perished long ago.
Unfortunately, what Steven may not know, is that God gave man dominion over the earth and its creatures, but not over space. We may visit the moon and beyond but we’re not equipped by God to have fruitful lives in that environment.
Perhaps Hawkings would be more comfortable at zero gravity.
JMHO...
Anyone who believes this is horribly naive or deceived. Mankind would just spread its nonsense more widely.
The only true hope for the future is Jesus Christ.
Colonizing another world sounds nice, although extremely difficult if even humanly possible, but a civilization cannot be made up of just a few people. Soon enough resources run out, and you need lots of people to create and process new resources.
There is no planet in our solar system that will currently support human life, and it would take a gargantuan effort if even possible to change the climate of another planet or moon to make human life suitable.
If the closest habitable planet in another solar system is 10 light years away it would take a space vehicle 10 years to reach it if we can travel that fast which is doubtful at best. If it was accomplished, it would take even longer to create a civilization assuming there wasn't one already and it didn't particularly like us being there.
Hawkings sees life a bit differently than most of us, being restrained in a wheel chair and depending on technology and other humans in order for him to survive. He also has a lot of time on his hands to think and ponder about things most of us don't have the time to even consider. So he is removed from the daily stuff we have to deal with, and this is the part that he doesn't apply to his thinking. What is practical for the average human.
I'm not much for Global Warming so I don't count that as our downfall, more likely a nuclear holocaust or some viral/bacteria thing will kill us off, but most likely not all of us. I'm betting that a few of us will survive to start again, and I think that has a higher probability of success than a few astronauts trying to create a new world somewhere else.
what is a post-singularity civilisation??