He has come to the conclusion that we need to figure out how we can move the whole planet Earth to this new destination. Then all we have to do is maintain an ideal temperature during the trip so we don't freeze solid on the way.
I think his keepers need to keep a closer eye on him on HIS trip to dementia.
Doesn’t believe in God but believes earth is a ‘mother’ with feelings.
Rather than sending sterile probes to Mars, send some filled with mosses, algae, and beneficial nematodes...
https://bogology.org/2013/10/16/how-do-mosses-survive-in-antarctica/
from link:
“... mosses have lots of attributes that facilitate their survival and growth ...:
Low growing: this protects the plants from damage by the almost constant, strong winds that are blowing – as well as being the coldest, Antarctica is the windiest continent on the planet.
Slow growing: Antarctic moss banks have historically accumulated at approximately 1 mm per year. This is very slow! However, the mosses do not need to complete their life cycle in a single year as many vascular plants do; indeed the moss banks on Elephant Island have been accumulating almost continuously for over 5000 years. Slow and steady wins the game in Antarctica.
Asexual reproduction: it is too cold for many of the Antarctic moss species to produce spores (the moss ‘equivalent’ to seeds), so instead the plants spread asexually and new, complete moss plants can often regenerate from a small section of an existing moss plant.
Without humans, “Mother Earth” does not exist. If we “have to get out” in a century, then there’s no reason to not trash the place first. We own the planet and there is no next tenant.
Nope...some will stay and vegetate on the earthball, but some will emigrate to space, with "evil capitalism" providing the means. Elon Musk and SpaceX are leading the charge.
I agree more with Hawking than not. I suspect that in a couple of centuries, there will be more humans off earth than on it.
One world government or escaping the earth. What a genius.
What a bunch of clap trap....at the speed of light it would take five years to get to the closest object outside our solar system. Can one imagine the cost. It’s not even known one can even obtain the SOL!!!
The best case is that a few humans get to live their lives on Mars, the sky above Venus, or under the ice of one of Saturn's moons. Then if Earth suffers a massive asteroid hit or supervolcano eruption there will still be some humans about.
However, it will always be much easier to move lots of people underground or underwater to survive even the worst imaginable disasters. There are probably already a sufficient number of fully stocked underground bunkers to guarantee the survival of the human race from anything short of the Earth spiraling into the Sun.
In any case, we are eventually going to be replaced by genetic mutants, cyborgs, and/or robots. So humanity is doomed regardless.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Voyager. It has reached the edge of the solar system and has nothing to report.
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.