Thread: Stephen Hawking: We Must Leave Earth

Stephen Hawking Says Earth Is Under Threat and Humans Need to Leave

Stephen Hawking has warned that Earth is under threat and repeated his belief that humans must leave in the next few centuries if we are to survive as a species.

“The Earth is under threat from so many areas that it is difficult for me to be positive. The threats are too big and too numerous,” he said, according to the Evening Express. “Our physical resources are being drained, at an alarming rate. We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change. Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, and decimation of animal species. We can be an ignorant, unthinking lot.”

Hawking made the comments as part of his keynote address at the Starmus Festival in Norway. The festival celebrates science and music, and aims to help the public get a better understanding of complex science.

The professor has made similar dire warnings about the fate of mankind in the past, but in his latest comments, he addressed several specific issues he feels are the biggest threat and talked about how we might become a multi-planetary species.

Hawking said that in the past, when humans have faced “similar crises” in terms of resources, they moved to new parts of the world: “Columbus did it in 1492 when he discovered the New World,” he said. “But now there is no new world. No Utopia around the corner."


“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth,” he said.

The Milky Way is home to an estimated 100 billion planets. Of these, millions, if not billions, are “potentially habitable,” meaning they could have the conditions right to host life, including a stable climate that allows liquid water to exist.

Hawking noted there are an estimated 1,000 stars within 30 light years of Earth, so if just 1 percent of these were Earth-like, we would have 10 candidate planets to move to. He also said he believes humans will have developed the technology for interstellar travel within the next 200 to 500 years.

“Human colonization on other planets is no longer science fiction. It can be science fact,” he said. “The human race has existed as a separate species for about two million years. Civilization began about 10,000 years ago, and the rate of development has been steadily increasing. If humanity is to continue for another million years, our future lies in boldly going where no one else has gone before.”

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After several "bongs" during the " interview," it was decided that Captain James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk would be leading the expedition...

William Shatner was born in Montreal, Quebec (1931), the first city I visited on the move to Canada...

Great to have a fellow Canuck at the helm, though he lives in California...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Hawking noted there are an estimated 1,000 stars within 30 light years of Earth, so if just 1 percent of these were Earth-like, we would have 10 candidate planets to move to. He also said he believes humans will have developed the technology for interstellar travel within the next 200 to 500 years.

Sounds good.

I'll wait around for that.

But it is an interesting topic, BB.

Yeah.
Leave the planet and find another habitable planet to fvck up completely.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Yeah.
Leave the planet and find another habitable planet to fvck up completely.

Right on! Shouldn't we get our own house in order before vandalizing anywhere else?

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Stephen Hawking: We Must Leave Earth

Have no idea why Boringboy would post this. He left the planet a long time ago.

When he says "we" must leave the planet, he means just a select few. Unless we completely change our attitudes in terms of respecting each other, other life forms and our environment, then it might be best if our ignorant, parasite race becomes extinct, rather than pollute the unviverse any further.

The meek shall inherit the Earth.

Originally Posted by pickel

The meek shall inherit the Earth.

Only if that is ok with everyone else!

I agree,

I've just left Earth on the rocket ship Ya-Ba.

Will come back on the HMAS Samsong not for long though .

Originally Posted by pickel

The meek shall inherit the Earth.

Yeah but it'll be totally fucked by then and the genetically superior and AI enhanced elite will have already departed.

Originally Posted by pickel

The meek shall inherit the Earth.

The strong will go elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

The strong will go elsewhere.

Yer,

Hitler said that and look where that sick fuk ended up.

I'm staying in Soi 4 Suk, that's do me eh.

Love Lek and Nit long time.

Off you go then Stevie mate , tek fucking Borris with you ... And if there's any seats up the back Mrs. May an'all...

SH is a very intelligent person. His comments are futuristic and should not, but will be, taken on board by all the doom and gloom climate nutters.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

SH is a very intelligent person. His comments are futuristic and should not, but will be, taken on board by all the doom and gloom climate nutters.

Professor Hawkins displays the same tired and fabricated established Eurocentric convention.
Nothing terribly revealing nor extraordinary about him either, really.


Repeated over and again until all is real and true.
An easy catch to manipulated already dumbed-down populations.

Massive euthanasia might be helpful.

Nothing extraordinary about our kind.

Bit dumb for a so called genius to overlook that trivial fact that even if we manage to escape Earth we would still be stuck with ourselves.

This pointless exercise should appeal to liberals and other nutjobs; if we really cared about our planet more than we do about our own, we would commit global suicide, naturally in an environmentally friendly way, and hope the next dominant species do a better job of it.

Have I got my physics right?
'Only'30 light years away.
That means if we can develop a transport system that can travel at the speed of light ( didn't Einstein say that was impossible??)
It will take us 30 years to get there.
I think there is more chance of the human race living in Cities underground or under the sea to be honest.

Originally Posted by tj916

That means if we can develop a transport system that can travel at the speed of light ( didn't Einstein say that was impossible??)
It will take us 30 years to get there.

Every movie I have viewed regards this go to sleep travel ends with the poor coontas walking up and then getting fuked up by aliens. ????

In the other ones the poor coontas landed back on Earth but had gone back in time.

Those fookers ended up being fooked over by hoards of king kong English speaking Monkeys. ???

Na fuk that, I'll just cone on until I check out.

Ta.

Ps. Smashing some beer now and on the Meds.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Stephen Hawking Says Earth Is Under Threat and Humans Need to Leave

So the OP gets to stay then? Another win for you.

How far are we away from immortality ? Or at least a much longer life? This combined with automation will create real issues for mankind in the coming years. Capitalism and "democracy" as it is today has no hope, we are going to have to find a way to reduce population growth, ensure a much more even playing field for all (or only the rich will get to live 200+ years), maybe people will go further into a cyber world, looking at the youth of today glued to their smart phones many are half way into a fantasy life already.

Ok, so the solution is a type of Mattrix arrangement.

Stevie can still fcuk off into space...

Heh...It's like spreading chum in the waters...I could unzip my fly and there would be Icedick and Chastity swimming the celestial seas with their mouths open...

Spewing their nonsense eternally...

555...No wonder the Earth is doomed....

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

I could unzip my fly and there would be Icedick and Chastity

...do tell...

Originally Posted by tomcat

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

I could unzip my fly and there would be Icedick and Chastity

...do tell...

Hafta ask them...Perhaps they're gay...Nothing wrong with it, mind...

But they're so fooking angry all the time...Heh...