Hawking Gives Humans 1,000 Years to Escape Earth

VOA ^ | 4/11/13

[LibWhacker]

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warns that humans will need to go beyond the planet Earth if they are to survive as a species.

“We must continue to go into space for humanity,” Hawking told a gathering this week in Los Angeles, California. “We won’t survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet.”

Hawking, 71, has long been a proponent of space exploration.

Speaking at a 2008 ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the U.S. space agency, NASA, Hawking called for a new era in human space exploration, comparable, he said, to the European voyages to the New World more than 500 years ago.

“Spreading out into space will have an even greater effect," Hawking said. "It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all.”

[G Larry]

My brother died of ALS at 44, after 3 years of declining health.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

As long as they have Netflix wherever we go next I’m good.

[EEGator]

I’m sorry to hear about your brother.

I thought the average lifespan after diagnoses was around 4 years. Hawking was diagnosed at like 21 or so.

[TheOldLady]

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[Graing]

Nonsense.

Most of Europe and Russia have been below replacement rates for several years due to rampant murdering of babies in the womb. Russia has seen the problem and is trying to turn it around. China and India also have huge abortion problems, as does the U.S. Overpopulation is not a problem anyone is worrying about seriously. The adverse is true due to the abomination that causes desolation.

Which reminds me.... so much coverage of the Gosnell trial on TV.... oh wait. Nevermind.

[MNDude]

I’m always amazed at how atheists are always so concerned about something that might could maybe happen a hundred years from now or a thousand years from now, but have little concern for if they have an eternal soul although we’ll all certainly be dead this century.

[EEGator]

Good call. She needs to grow her hair out...hide them pointies.

[discostu]

Yes but will it be around in a way we can live on it. Things bad for human civilization happen to the planet all the time (on a geological time scale). There will be another ice age that puts significant portions of the planet under miles of ice, there will be an asteroid crashing down with massive force and all the fire and clouds that implies, there will be polar reversals, and some day the sun is turning off. These things are inevitable, and if we don’t have a self sustaining section of ourselves elsewhere when they happen nothing else we did matters.

[Vaquero]

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

BUZZ ALDRIN, Esquire, Jan. 2003

[TexasCajun]

If man wants to hang around earth for the long haul, he'll have to shoot some rocks out of the sky eventually.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Those countries are experiencing population decline but in countries like India, Brazil, and other undeveloped countries where birth control is not easily available, population is increasing rapidly.

[EEGator]

We just need Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m sorry Hawking has such a horrible affliction but he has no more clue of what is going to happen on Earth than my dog Buddy.

[meatloaf]

Earth will still be here. We probably won't. Based on the DNA bottleneck, some event almost wiped out mankind about 5,000 years ago. There's nothing special about us that means we'll survive as a species if we stay bound to the planet.

There's some conjecture that the Carrington Event wasn't the maximum solar flare that could happen. Most folks don't think about the fact the Sun revolves around the galactic center while Earth revolves around the Sun. A galactic year is about 225 to 250 million years.

We haven't been around long enough to know what the solar system will encounter all of the way around. I suspect some of the geologic evidence may at some point give us clues.

[TexasCajun]

NASA Announces Plan for Capturing Asteroid

[Average Al]

I’ll bet other planets have better border controls than we do.... ;-)

[Uncle Miltie]

Julian Simon.

Checkmate.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

We're also in an arm of our galaxy with not many stars close to each other. In 50,000 years our system will be moving into heavy traffic.

I don't see us moving into the stars in our current forms. Genetic engineering is one possible answer. The little green and gray men could someday be from modified humans.

[RetSignman]

“We won’t survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet.”

He SAID that?

[EEGator]

Thanks for the link.

It sounds amazing complex, but if it works it would be great. I especially think the mining aspect should be looked into.