[Cementjungle]

Hawking believes humanity might be contending with in the coming century are fallout from human-induced climate change, nuclear war, and genetically modified/engineered viruses

My theory is the sun's going to unexpectedly explode. We'll have about 13 nanoseconds warning, then we'll be vaporized.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see who's right on this one.

[dragnet2]

Wrong class/type of star to explode. But will consume the earth eventually near the end of it’s life. Btw, it would probably take about 8 minutes before earth was affected. If the sun just disappeared right now, we wouldn’t see it for about 8 minutes. Then lights out.