Lets first see if we survive the next 4 years, then we can talk about populating other planets in the distant future.
He may be right! Problem is some of his suggestions seem very far fetchedHow will we reach the stars? Especially in the next 1000 years. We'll still be trying to escape our own solar system...........Hawking reportedly added that finding another planet was the only chance of survival.
“[We] have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race,” he said. “However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period.”
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Lets first see if we survive the next 4 years, then we can talk about populating other planets in the distant future.
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Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
enf (18-11-16)
I don't have enough Superannuation for a 1000 years anyway....
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
It's unreal to think that dinosaurs roamed this planet for 100 million years, but humans have only existed for 100 thousand years and we're only expected to last another thousand?
You only have to look what we've done to the place in just the last 100 years to wonder if his thousand year prediction is even a bit optimistic?
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I sometimes look at photos of the planet Mars, with it's parched landscape, evidence of flowing water long gone, and the like, and wonder whether, sometime in the dim past we might not have been down this road before.
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If Australia is a democracy why, then, is voting compulsory?
"What has changed between the arrival of the First Fleet and today?"
"Wearing leg irons is now not required."
Stephen Hawking obviously didn't take into consideration the Muslim Effect or the Trump years.
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
cmangle (20-11-16),eeprommemory (23-11-16)
Hockey was almost right but he thought it was only for poor people
The age of entitlement is over
A series of Volcanic eruptions or one or more hits by some meteorites or an asteroid would see us off nicely as it possibly did to the Dinosaurs.
Would we re evolve as it did before or would it take a different path due to the chemical mix in the bubbling brew?
Our current form to me isnt compatible with the idea of leaving this planet and populating other worlds so somehow I feel we are going to have to evolve or perish.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
Wars, diseases, pathogens....it's all on the cards...
All it takes is some nutjob with a Koran or a Bible to be told by god we have to go and to release a pathogen to do it and it's all over red rover.
No point in worrying about it for me, I can't do anything about it.....
I agree with Hawking however, we need to back ourselves up.
The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.
The irony is we are reliant on technology to find and transport humans to another suitable planet, when it is predominately that same technology that humans have used to accelerate Earth's demise.
If humans survived we would just destroy that planet too.
If we all worship an economic system that is driven by greed and favours the sociopaths what do we expect is going to happen.
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Wonder where we will go skiing?
There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Madness"
I am beginning to think Stephen is losing the plot.
He's been coming up with some whacky comments lately. Somebody must have turned up the meds a little.
He's more afraid of aliens than an Idaho redneck in a pickup truck on a country road at 2am.
And if he'd met some of these rednecks, he'd know that despite them being a little lacking in some of that higher school learning, they're still pretty clever and resourceful people.
In fact they're like cockroaches. Ya turn on the lights and they scurry and take cover. They're damn hard to kill. they'll eat anything to survive.
Imagine a cockroach with enough firepower to evict you from your own house.
Yes I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
I have often felt that the Human species is little more than a high level ( not intelligence at times) form of parasite and do exactly what MTV has stated.
I have seen some of those shows featuring so called Red Neck's and their 'inventiveness' but it has to be taken in the context of their lifestyle.
Necessity along with an empty stomach is a great motivator in 'problem solving' and if your prepared to live a basic lifestyle, all the better.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
I also think Mr. Hawkins is exaggerating a bit.
I can not see a single event, short of the planet spitting apart, that would wipe out EVERY human life form.
Those living totally self sufficient in mountains or tablelands with water from ancient springs and far away from the cities and any other human contact, would survive any holocaust I can think of.
They would be sufficient to prevent the end of human race.
I am not talking about the red necks in the USA or our local country side but more places like The Andes in Chile, Brazil, central parts of Africa, New Guinea, etc.
These people :
Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
cmangle (20-11-16)
Whether or not I want to comment on the Muslim effect or the Trump affect, the next four years WILL be interesting.
. . . and as far as Hawkings goes I tend to agree with "trash" and "nomeat" . . Hawkings grey cells have seen their better days.
Wasn't one of his predictions/deductions/theorems debunked recently and even he admitted he F*KED up!
Hawkings should have played it safe and said, "I won't last a thousand years"
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Colonising another planet is pure, unadulterated science fiction.
Consider how many people would be needed to have a reasonable gene pool - ultimately they would all finish up being inbred anyway.
How many "spaceships" would be needed to transport these people and all the equipment and supplies they would need until they became self sufficient?
"We" have been playing around on the ISS for how many years and how far has that got us?
If Australia is a democracy why, then, is voting compulsory?
"What has changed between the arrival of the First Fleet and today?"
"Wearing leg irons is now not required."
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