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Stephen Hawking just moved up humanity’s deadline for escaping Earth
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| 05/05/2017
| Peter Holly
Posted on 05/05/2017 7:27:22 AM PDT by Phlap
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To: Wonder Warthog
I suppose so. We arent’ there yet but we may be on the threshold. I am surprised that there is an International Space Staton that is so ho hum it rarely makes the news. The future you suggest may be right around the corner.
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05/05/2017 11:44:33 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Wonder Warthog
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw at a science fiction convention. "The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars."
To: Scythian_Reborn
Sadly, Hawking has flipped his cork. However, I will take advantage of his prediction and accumulate as much debt as possible and then wait for “Dooms Day!”
How and why does a man predict the end of Earth? We calculate/estimate that it has existed for 4-5 Billion (these numbers are huge) years. Our Solar system depends on the Sun for everything. When the Sun fades to dark, we will have known for centuries that it was burning out. Still, there will be no place to go and no way to get there, so, sit back, relax and enjoy the show that the liberals will put on for you.
P.S. Don’t give up your guns.
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05/05/2017 12:38:48 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: dp0622
>>Typical liberal atheist.<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Exactly.
His whole program represents the error of Adam and Eve, which leads only to the devil, sin, suffering, slavery and death.
I could quote verses, but most people here already know them.
To: Disestablishmentarian
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posted on
05/05/2017 12:40:30 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Phlap
Another Heaven's Gate?
To: Phlap
He's right in a way. "If mankind survives as a species, for all but a brief span of our history, the word 'ship' will mean spaceship." That's a rough quote from Robert Heinlein that I recall from years ago. He probably said it better.
We'll have to eventually get off this rock. It will probably be a burned out hulk by the time we really have, but that's OK. I suspect it's how the universe works.
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05/05/2017 1:21:34 PM PDT
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zeugma
(The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
To: Riley
I can’t take credit for it, but some clever Freeper referred to him as ‘Davros’. (It’s a Dr. Who thing.)OMG, that's great. Davros has a better vocoder.
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posted on
05/05/2017 1:24:02 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
To: tbw2
Everything else aside, the man could think up EPIC scifi.Case in point... Ringworld (along with Pournelle - who is also a conservative more or less)
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posted on
05/05/2017 1:32:41 PM PDT
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zeugma
(The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
To: zeugma
".....who is also a conservative more or less." No "more or less" about it. Pournelle IS a conservative, even if he (and Niven) live in California.
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05/05/2017 1:52:21 PM PDT
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Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: zeugma
He was also a problem solver. The engineering students who chanted at a science fiction convention “Ringworld is unstable” found it the plot of a second book about the jets on the rim and hominid species that took them for space ships ... and Teela’s solution to save Ringworld with the instability and remaining jets.
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05/05/2017 1:54:00 PM PDT
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tbw2
To: tbw2
I've read some Niven, but not that one. Might check it out. Thanks!
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05/05/2017 3:56:43 PM PDT
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Right Wing Assault
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