Haven't hiked in Patagonia yet, so...get that done soon.
Posted on 11/07/2017 12:09:19 PM PST by Eddie01
According to Hawking, our planet will become overcrowded, and increased energy consumption will turn Earth into a ball of fire because of the rising population and exponential consumption. But he seems to have a solution.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race will cease to exist on Earth after humans turn it into a giant fireball by 2600 year.
To escape from the catastrophe, humans must "boldly go where no one has gone before," Hawking declared during his video appearance at the Tencent WE Summit in Beijing, as quoted by the New York Post.
The physicist appealed to investors to support his project Starshot Breakthrough, which involves a journey to the closest star outside our solar system – Alpha Centauri, one of the closest star systems at 4.3 light-years away from Earth.
The scientist hopes that the system may have exo-planets orbiting it, which could be suitable for life just like on Earth.
Starshot Breakthrough’s director, a former head of NASA’s Ames Research Center, also made an appearance in Beijing saying, "Maybe if all goes well, sometime a little after the middle of the century, we’ll have our first picture of another planet that may be life-bearing orbiting the nearest star."
Just a day earlier, Hawking appeared at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, to warn humanity about the development of artificial intelligence, saying, "AI could develop a will of its own."
"The rise of AI could be the worst or the best thing that has happened for humanity,” he added, explaining that robots are already taking over millions of jobs, and technologists must pause and focus not just on making AI more successful, but try and make it more beneficial to humanity.
According to Hawking, the timing might be faster than we think, as AI could outshine humans in just a few decades.
READ MORE: Stephen Hawking Warns AI Might Capture the World, 'Replace Humans Altogether'
The famous futurist and businessman Elon Musk has also previously warned about the future of the human race, as potentially superior artificial intelligence has already been created.
Yup. The only reason he gets so much attention is because of his affliction. The media make him out to be a sort of 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz' type figure when in reality he's just another leftist douchebag professor.
Haven't hiked in Patagonia yet, so...get that done soon.
What a nut. Conveniently, he won't be around to have his hypothesis evaluated.
Looks like a place from Middle-Earth. Watch out for Orcs.
“Theirs is dropping as well.”
That is true but they are still at well above replacement levels. It seems that birth rates drop with affluence and Africa is bringing up the rear in that category.
None of these avowed believers that all reality reduces to matter in motion with no meaning whatsoever ever explains why they care about anything at all.
> None of these avowed believers that all reality reduces to matter in motion with no meaning whatsoever ever explains why they care about anything at all.
True. Secular thinkers know that christianity is a false religion. But they do not understand that their godless worldview leads to nihilism. Torah forbids worshiping one of the fundamentals of the physical creation. It is secondary if the person worships fire, water, earth, air, matter, antimatter, positive charge, negative charge and so on and so forth. If a person worships any of these things, he is an idolater.
Don’t forget Professor Paul R. Ehrlich’s doomsday predictions!
After Christians have been raptured and the evil left takes over, within a short amount of time the world will quickly come very close to it’s end. Jesus will come back and rescue it just in time before the total destruction of all flesh. Praise Him!!!
I agree.
Hawking should worry about immediate problems like who will be there to hold his next joint.
According to Hawking, our planet will become overcrowded, and increased energy consumption will turn Earth into a ball of fire because of the rising population and exponential consumption... To escape from the catastrophe, humans must "boldly go where no one has gone before," ...The physicist appealed to investors to support his project Starshot Breakthrough, which involves a journey to the closest star outside our solar system – Alpha Centauri, one of the closest star systems at 4.3 light-years away from Earth.That's just some nuttery from another AGW nutjob from the UK. This part was interesting!--
Starshot Breakthrough's director, a former head of NASA's Ames Research Center, also made an appearance in Beijing saying, "Maybe if all goes well, sometime a little after the middle of the century, we'll have our first picture of another planet that may be life-bearing orbiting the nearest star."A ping to APoD list members.
Is he still riding around in the The Cougar 9000?
We got him a used one for $240. A Hipster Doofus led us to it.
A sad, but undeniable issue is that diseases such as ALS, MS, Parkinson’s, and some Auto-Immune Diseases affect the BRAIN.
Hawking was once considered a Brilliant Scientist, and was admired for being able to continue to function in spite of his enormous disability.
However, in recent years he has become a parody of himself, and it is very embarrassing.
I wish that those closest to him were able to shelter him from making a complete ass of himself and destroying any credibility he may have once had.
It is like a Greek Tragedy, where hubris and conceit bring down a hero.
As President Trump would say, “SAD.”
I think Hawking has left the building.
For British dons, the sky has been falling for two centuries and counting.
Okay Steve... whatever.
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