[Squidpup]

OK - you first Steve

[areukiddingme1]

Yeah...they were saying that...like 7 million years ago, so...

[Moltke]

comparable, he said, to the European voyages to the New World more than 500 years ago.

He should know better.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The world survived for billions of years before Steve came along, and it will be around for billions of years after.

[Vaquero]

Not a bad idea not to put all out eggs in one basket

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

...our fragile planet...

Oh you mean the planet that has been around for "B" for billions of years throughout meteor strikes, massive volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, nukes, and Justin Beiber yet is still around like a bunny on a warm spring day? Maybe the Professor can define for me the word "fragile" because if the earth is "fragile" I'd hate to see what his definition of "tough' is.

[EEGator]

Off topic, but wasn’t he only supposed to live into his 40’s?

[rarestia]

I agree with Hawking in every sense. I disagree on the timeline, however. I’d say if humanity is not making a concerted effort to get off this rock in a permanent way in the next 200 years, we’re done for overall.

It’s sorta like a nuclear family living under one roof. Sure it’s possible, and yeah it’s going to save everyone quite a bit of money; but you’ll NEVER have consensus on everything, and at some point, tempers will boil over.

We need to use the moon as an outpost, begin testing new technologies for space faring and learning how to biologically beat space. We need to reach out to Mars for long term civilization and colonization and use that as our launch point to the asteroid belt and the moons of the gas giants.

Io at Jupiter and Enceladus and Titan by Saturn make enticing targets for future exploration.

[KC_Lion]

Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.

Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.

Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.

Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. The Protheans were not the first. They did not create the Citadel. They did not forge the mass relays. They mere found them - the legacy of my kind. Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays. Our technology. By using it, your civilization develops along the paths we desire.

We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. My kind transcends your very understanding.

We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence. We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure.

We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.

[faithhopecharity]

Hawking is a tremendous optimist. If the muslems (or norkors) keep attacking and threatening and beheading and raping and pillaging us, they can probably provoke the end of human life on earth much, much faster than 1,ooo years. Try 10? Or even possibly sooner? I’m all for space colonies!

[GreenHornet]

Hawking Gives Humans 1,000 Years to Escape Earth

Don't put it off - it will be here before you know it.

[kosciusko51]

At the rate we are going, we won’t survive the current administration...

[cripplecreek]

I don’t think we’ll die out within a thousand years but I do think we’ll find a means for interstellar flight within that time frame.

Gonna be a real shock to the people who leave on a sleep ship to arrive thousands of years later and discover humans already there making daily commutes back and forth between earth and Alpha C.

[beethovenfan]

Hawking has gone off the deep end. Stick to physics, Steve.

[dfwgator]

[Born to Conserve]

Already missed the window, genius.

At this point, sending robotic and remote controlled devices is so much cheaper and “fair”, that’s the best we’ll do. We can’t send those who are capable, because that would be discriminatory. We can’t send a “representative” person, because they would fail. So we’ll send robots.

When the Elite became fodder for the mediocre, all hope was lost.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I give him maybe ten more years before he goes on to the eternal barbecue.

[wolfman]

1000 years? Interesting. That’s God’s plan exactly.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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

[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.