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.
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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.
Hawking went on to predict that this would be preceded by the rise of talking apes as the dominant terran species. He proposed that the catastrophe could be averted by sending a team of astronauts to the future through a Hasslein Curve to recruit some of the talking apes to travel back to 1973 and warn the humans before it was too late.
Doug, your 20 year Freeper anniversary is coming up in less than a month.
How cool is that!
Hawking a has obviously never studied population ecology. There are inherent damping factors in population dynamics.
In one of his least brilliant comments, Hawking stated that the universe created itself.
Read the Bible, Hawking. It has wisdom that your brilliance can’t touch.
Actually, I was one of the first couple hundred here in about mid 1996. Jim did something changing software or server and the dates for joining got changed.
The primary benefit therein being not having to listen to Stephen Hawking any longer.
I feel as if he actually died years ago, and they just have his well kept cadaver wheeled around to get the atheists riled up with appearances like this.
Oh, good. I guess I won’t have to clean the bathrooms in 559 years. One less thing to worry about.
Do you think it will really be 600 years or will it just seem like 600 years?
lol!
Is that a real poncho or is that a Sear’s poncho? - F Zappa
Theirs is dropping as well.
Once your kids stop dying at a young age you quit having so many.
Just one question! What the new planet he wants to find is over populated to! lol
Just one question! What if the new planet he wants to find is over populated to! lol
Anybody else notice the big media science ho’s are trying to muscle in on the televangelists apocalyptic doomsday tactics?
Ignore Hawking. He just wants his own jet and a platinum blonde who can cry on cue.
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