Stephan Hawking says humans will have to leave earth

Ultimately, I'm sure that humans will migrate from earth. I don't think it will be in 20 to 40 years (I realize that Hawking said we could, not would), though- I've seen enough of these predictions come and go (where are the flying cars?)
I think, as bad as things may be on our planet, our money is better spent solving our environmental problems here and making the earth more habitable (we'd have to go far beyond the moon or Mars to find a planet where we could live without being inside a biodome, anyway.) On the other hand, I suppose that global warming would never be an issue on the moon.

 

People are motivated by mad scientists not scarred scientists. Stephen himself would have to acknowledge the statistical trivality of the next 100 years in the context of recorded time to have to get something done.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jun 13 2006, 02:35 PM) [snapback]270644[/snapback]</div>

:lol: Great, the human race will be the trailerpark trash of the galaxy, trashing a planet and then moving on to our next victim. Advanced planets will be racing to find a way to hide from our roving hoards. "Ruh roh, here come the humans, well there goes the solar system."

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JackDodge @ Jun 13 2006, 03:59 PM) [snapback]270690[/snapback]</div>

Some far more advanced species on another planet would regard humans as hoards of locusts.

 

We can do like we did to the new world...conquer them, take their gold, and make them all Christians!!!

I'm sorry...I meant to say bring democracy to them.

 

Just because Hawking is a genius, doesn't mean he's not insane. In fact, insanity is common among geniuses.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ Jun 13 2006, 03:04 PM) [snapback]270661[/snapback]</div>

reminds me of The Long Now

http://www.longnow.org/about/images/longnow-explain.png

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 13 2006, 08:42 PM) [snapback]270826[/snapback]</div>

While I won't pretend to speak for Prof. Hawking, I think he might have just been resorting to hyperbole to shake people up with the message that we better do something now about the mess the world is in. Of course, he could just be insane.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Jun 13 2006, 07:20 PM) [snapback]270882[/snapback]</div>

His views on black holes and the possibility of time travel are decidedly unconventional (i.e. nobody else in physics agrees with him). And while colonizing other planets could (if it were possible) serve to perpetuate the human race after the Earth is sterilized by nuclear war, such colonization would do nothing for the six-plus billion people living here and with no way to get out.

Hawking is a genius, but he's also a nut job.

 

Like beauty, that fine line between genius and insanity is in the eye of the beholder.

I find it discouraging that Stephen Hawking thinks we should give up and blast off. We don't yet know enough about life to just take it with us, or to make more somewhere else. As a species, we've been standing arguing at the metaphorical fork in the road for far too long.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Jun 13 2006, 02:31 PM) [snapback]270640[/snapback]</div>

LOL if I had a nurse that looked like that I'd never leave home.. :lol: :lol:

I think hes pushing the childrens books..

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Jun 14 2006, 03:49 PM) [snapback]271384[/snapback]</div>

There is no "fine line." You can be a great genius and a raging maniac both at the same time. I don't think Hawking is a maniac, but he's definitely a nut job. I think he's making extreme statements in order to gather the lunatic fringe as his followers.

 

...of course, we can't absolutely prove we exist in the first place... h34r:

 

Stephan Hawking says humans will have to leave earth, Earth plans celebration

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Jun 13 2006, 02:13 PM) [snapback]270666[/snapback]</div>

How do we go about leaving a forwarding address?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hep @ Jun 16 2006, 05:38 AM) [snapback]272147[/snapback]</div>

Simple. Just fill out one of those cards at the post office.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Jun 15 2006, 07:00 AM) [snapback]271601[/snapback]</div>

I can prove that I exist. I may not be able to convince you of it, but all that proves is that you might not exist.