[Wonder Warthog]

"We are going nowhere. Not in a 100 or a 1000 or 10,000 years. This is our berg until we are not."

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.

[JoeFromSidney]

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."