Cockroaches and Keith Richards.
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.
I’m still waiting on the Great Flood caused by globull warming that was supposed to wipe out half of the US a few years ago.
Guess what, Stevie, you and I won’t be around in 600 to see if you’re right or wrong.
Why would earth turn into a giant fireball unless Islam gets it’s hands on all the nuclear weapons and sets them all off.
CO2 is not gonna burn us up, even if the CO2 levels are QUADRUPLED!!!! because CO2 levels were MORE then Quadrupled when dinos were walking around for hundreds of millions of years!!!
Heh Silent running!
*sigh*
Great movie, MrEdd.
Hawking is or was an expert on black hole physics. Beyond that he’s a dope.
[ I’m still waiting on the Great Flood caused by globull warming that was supposed to wipe out half of the US a few years ago.
Guess what, Stevie, you and I won’t be around in 600 to see if you’re right or wrong. ]
Even if you melted all the water on the earth, there would be no “catastrophic flood”, only the coastal areas would be heavily affected, also thermodynamically the time it would take for it to melt would make it possible for a snail to escape the flooding with literal YEARS to spare!!!
“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”
Seems like it’d be easier to terraform Venus. Or, if you could generate a massive magnetic field, terraform Mars. Wait, to cut costs, forget about magnetic fields ... they don’t do nothing anyway ... bunch of hippie nonsense :-P.
Investors, send your money to me and I’ll get to work on that right now. I figure some bottlerockets, duct tape, and a vial full of AIDS launched at both planets will give us two new planets to environmentally destroy in no time! I’ll beat the year 2600 by 300 years and change.
Strange he thinks we'd be safe on Alpha Centauri. If we can get there, this all powerful AI he's so afraid of will be able to get there with even less trouble and will probably look at Alpha Centauri like it's its own backyard.
“Hawking simply is projecting his own fears, doubts, values and beliefs - there is nothing “scientific” about it.”
Hawking is a bright guy, but his daily grind is rather miserable, I’d imagine. Making inane pronouncements like this is a smart way to garner the attention that he craves. Oh, and he’s probably nonplussed with his Creator, so lashing out may be his natural response.
I won’t worry until Keith Richards is gone.
I’ll probably be too old to care by then.
In the year 2625...if man is still alive...”
If woman can survive..they may find...
In the year 2625...if man is still alive...”
If woman can survive..they may find...
That's about how long it'll take for mine to be able to support me.
God is not going to wait 600 years.
And when He comes, He’s NOT going to be in a good mood.
Hardly ... It very much exists, "cT" is as much a dimension as "X", "Y", and "Z". General Relativity cannot be expressed otherwise.
Cockroaches and Keith Richards.
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