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He's not talking about abandoning the Earth, he's talking about spreading out and colonizing the stars, leaving the Earth as home base, not a museum showpiece. He is completely right about that, all it takes is just one asteroid or comet and it's lights out for humanity. Not to mention we're still not out of the Ice Age, so chunks of the northern hemisphere are going to ice over again
Don't really need to as of yet...If you look back at the book of Genesis - you will notice that the God factor is plural. They talk about "We"...as if God was a group of travelers who seeded the planet earth with humans and other life forms. I was not meaning to knock Hawkings. To be honest I believe that we will have to colonize other worlds - just as we were possibly a colony at one time..Things wear out - the solar system changes...the "Goldie Locks Zone" may change...and earth will vanish...all is possible...I just love this place so much I really hate to leave.
Who is stupid enough to believe that we were gonna survive forever as a species to begin with? Even if we made it another few billion years, the sun will eventually do what all stars do...blow up and kill us all.
We're NOTHING. Sollopcistic ass humans just don't get it. We're special only in that our planet sits where it does, hence giving us life. This planet wasn't made for us...we're just another species as far as the cosmos is concerned; not that it's "concerned" about us at all (sorry for the pathetic fallacy).
Just thank your lucky stars that you were ever here despite the tremendous odds against it.
Just becasue Humans as a species will "evelution" out eventually, dosent mean folk are working...most likly with your tax dollars to get the speicies to safty if disaster were to happen?
Take a second to hear what hawkins is saying. Humans is a euphemism for the fortunate few. If space colonization is achived, do you think you and 10 billion other Humans are gonna be able to go?
I saw this same senario Hawkins sees... when the space shuttle was designed. Space "shuttle" sounds so inncuous.
Hawkins is dead on right. The only proplem Hawkins didnt address is who are the fortunate that get to leave...
He's right. Not only could an asteroid wipe us out, but we could nuke ourselves out of existence, get wiped by a disease, run out of resources as our population explodes, etc. There are many reasons why we should look to spread out.
Hawkins is dead on right. The only proplem Hawkins didnt address is who are the fortunate that get to leave...
The logistics of massive migration into outer space are not insurmountable.
There are several possible technologies other than rockets that could get a payload into orbit.
Some, like magnetic catapults, are already being used for launching airplanes from carriers.
StarTram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
StarTram is a proposal for a maglev space launch system using an evacuated tube to eliminate friction with air. The initial Generation 1 facility would be cargo only, launching from a mountain peak at 3 km to 7 km altitude with an evacuated tube staying at local surface level, raising approx. 150,000 tons to orbit annually.
The logistics of massive migration into outer space are not insurmountable.
There are several possible technologies other than rockets that could get a payload into orbit.
Some, like magnetic catapults, are already being used for launching airplanes from carriers.
StarTram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
StarTram is a proposal for a maglev space launch system using an evacuated tube to eliminate friction with air. The initial Generation 1 facility would be cargo only, launching from a mountain peak at 3 km to 7 km altitude with an evacuated tube staying at local surface level, raising approx. 150,000 tons to orbit annually.
A lot can happen in 1000 years....granted no one alive today will live to see all those things.
For the first time in human history even that isn't a given assumption anymore... though I wonder how someone could live a thousand years and stay sane...
Sorry Stephen, it is way too late in the day for us to start reflecting about our future.
Human civilization is nearing exhaustion. And after civilization goes Humanity will quickly follow.
Nuclear holocaust is only right around the corner. 100 years from now humanity will either be dead
or dying.
But people shouldn't be too sad, extinction is a normal biological mechanism.
The logistics of massive migration into outer space are not insurmountable.
There are several possible technologies other than rockets that could get a payload into orbit.
Some, like magnetic catapults, are already being used for launching airplanes from carriers.
StarTram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
StarTram is a proposal for a maglev space launch system using an evacuated tube to eliminate friction with air. The initial Generation 1 facility would be cargo only, launching from a mountain peak at 3 km to 7 km altitude with an evacuated tube staying at local surface level, raising approx. 150,000 tons to orbit annually.
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