Hawking: Mankind has 1,000 years to escape Earth

[Feuer Frei!]

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking warns human beings won’t survive “without escaping” from the “fragile” planet. His gloomy forecast is people will become extinct on Earth within current the millennium.

SOURCE (http://rt.com/news/earth-hawking-mankind-escape-702/)

[Oberon]

:hmmm:

I'd say that extinct would be a bit of a stretch, however certainly a vast reduction of both technological rate and population is possible through either natural or un-natural means. Populating another planet will increase the chances of our achievements surviving, populating others beyond that will increase it further. Naturally beyond that, the achievements will diverge depending on each planet.

However, if a way is found to generate materials from energy, including food and water, then my outlook on human survival over the next millennia will increase dramatically. There are ways to prevent our demise, asteroid defences, high-rise earthquake proof buildings, but it all costs money...and that is humanities biggest Achilles heel, well, that and the greed that generated the creation of money.

[vienna]

1,000 years? I'd better get together my "go bag", pronto!...

<O>

[Buddahaid]

Not good as nothing will get done about it until there's only twenty years left. :arrgh!:

[Schroeder]

Not good as nothing will get done about it until there's only twenty years left. :arrgh!:
20? 5 at best. You know how we are.;)

[HunterICX]

20? 5 at best. You know how we are.;)

:shifty: I think we do.....*mutters*neighbours...world war....bicycles

HunterICX

[STEED]

1000 years, we will be in deep do-do in under 50 years the way things are going.

[Armistead]

One day at a time...is my motto.

[HundertzehnGustav]

he an optimist...

[HundertzehnGustav]

humans do not need to escape the planet.
humans need to correct their flaws.

[mookiemookie]

If you look at how technology has been increasing exponentially, I would say we have a fair chance of doing so given a 1000 year timeline.

It took man thousands of years to cross the ocean. It took him a couple hundred after that to take to the air. It took a matter of decades after that to get to space. It took just a few years after that to land on the moon. I think colonization of another planet could occur in 1000 years.

[Armistead]

If you look at how technology has been increasing exponentially, I would say we have a fair chance of doing so given a 1000 year timeline.

It took man thousands of years to cross the ocean. It took him a couple hundred after that to take to the air. It took a matter of decades after that to get to space. It took just a few years after that to land on the moon. I think colonization of another planet could occur in 1000 years.

Just one small issue,......air.

[HundertzehnGustav]

yep...
here we have the base materials we need for such mad progress.
to sustain our own self AND our projects.
where else do you find that, sustain ourselves, our projects, AND keep track of our kowledge.

without going bonkers because our psyche does not evolve fast enough, our body does not evolve fast enough on a biological level?

:06:

[Armistead]

Well, it's possible they will be able to save some in some small space city for a period of time on mars, but I doubt any of us will be getting a shuttle ticket.

[Feuer Frei!]

but I doubt any of us will be getting a shuttle ticket.

And i also doubt any of us, let alone our grandchildren or great great great grandchildren will need them.

[Wolferz]

So long. Thanks for all the fish.

/ sticks out thumb.

[Armistead]

And i also doubt any of us, let alone our grandchildren or great great great grandchildren will need them.

Agreed, but I don't really care about my gggggggg grandchildren to come.

I suspect in a few million years some scientist will find my fossil remains
-homo largus-

[Armistead]

So long. Thanks for all the fish.

/ sticks out thumb.


Wolferz, another good reason to let the human race die out.....:O:

[HundertzehnGustav]

so, bottom line:

hawking maybe right, but
a) we do not care
b) we do n ot mave a means to do what he thingks we need to do
c) we do not give a damn at this time.

faith in humanity restored.
:D

[Armistead]

so, bottom line:

hawking maybe right, but
a) we do not care
b) we do n ot mave a means to do what he thingks we need to do
c) we do not give a damn at this time.

faith in humanity restored.
:D

a) we do not care

We don't care

b) we do n ot mave a means to do what he thingks we need to do

We have the means, but not the will or economic model

c) we do not give a damn at this time.

Correct! We only give a damn when it's too late.

[HundertzehnGustav]

what do we learn out of this?

since hmanity is too (insert adjective or excuse) to do what it recognizes to be necessarily done...
we should all just hang our stupid selves?

at first sight that seems to be a good option, as we stop a messing around in nature, giving other species a better chance of long term evolution.

IF that is correct, why do we still breed?

Kill it before it breeds!!!!!

[Wolferz]

Wolferz, another good reason to let the human race die out.....:O:

I was just saying that it might not matter if we go extinct due too some alien race bulldozing our rock for an interstellar highway within the next millennium or so.:hmmm:

I'll go extinct within the next ten to twenty years and make Armistead very very happy I bet.:O:

[Armistead]

I was just saying that it might not matter if we go extinct due too some alien race bulldozing our rock for an interstellar highway within the next millennium or so.:hmmm:

I'll go extinct within the next ten to twenty years and make Armistead very very happy I bet.:O:


Well, I probably would miss you more than I suspect.:wah: If you left, I might be the lowest form of life on Subsim....

[Jimbuna]

Well, I probably would miss you more than I suspect.:wah: If you left, I might be the lowest form of life on Subsim....

Keep posting...the end of the world is nigh :o

[raymond6751]

1000 years?

Let's see...25 yrs per generation makes 400 gens from now.

If I'm still around I think I'll just stay here and wave goodbye. They'll be back anyway.

[Father Goose]

When I first read Mr. Hawking's prediction I interpreted it as good news. :up:
Quite frankly, I thought we only had a couple hundred years to go. :down:

[u crank]

When I first read Mr. Hawking's prediction I interpreted it as good news. :up:
Quite frankly, I thought we only had a couple hundred years to go. :down:

:har:

To listen to some people you would think it was next week.:O:

I think Mr. Hawking is simply making a case for space exploration. The human species could be wiped out in any number of ways. Another asteroid, uncontrollable world wide plague or Borg assimilation. Like the event of 65 million years ago, some species survived and evolution took over. Who knows maybe the next highly evolved life form will be kinder and gentler types who take care of the place a little better. :03:

[Armistead]

:har:

To listen to some people you would think it was next week.:O:

I think Mr. Hawking is simply making a case for space exploration. The human species could be wiped out in any number of ways. Another asteroid, uncontrollable world wide plague or Borg assimilation. Like the event of 65 million years ago, some species survived and evolution took over. Who knows maybe the next highly evolved life form will be kinder and gentler types who take care of the place a little better. :03:

You forget to mention another world flood...:)

[NeonSamurai]

Before we think about spreading around the virus (us) to other planets, maybe we should work on our ability to live on our own planet without wrecking and poisoning everything. If for no other reason than because there is no way in heck we could manage life on another planet, if we can barely keep from wiping ourselves out on the pretty nice one we have now.

[u crank]

You forget to mention another world flood...:)

Not me buddy, not a chance.:O:

[nikimcbee]

SOURCE (http://rt.com/news/earth-hawking-mankind-escape-702/)

I call BS. He needs to visit Mt St. Helens blast zone.

[Spoon 11th]

Would a NASA reality show “Lunar Shore” be more popular than “Jersey Shore”? Civilization's future depends on that answer.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Armistead]

Before we think about spreading around the virus (us) to other planets, maybe we should work on our ability to live on our own planet without wrecking and poisoning everything. If for no other reason than because there is no way in heck we could manage life on another planet, if we can barely keep from wiping ourselves out on the pretty nice one we have now.

No money to be made in it.

[Father Goose]

Who knows maybe the next highly evolved life form will be kinder and gentler types who take care of the place a little better. :03:

The next? So you're defining us as highly evolved? Hmmm...interesting. :hmmm:

[u crank]

The next? So you're defining us as highly evolved? Hmmm...interesting. :hmmm:

Whut!? You've never seen Jersey Shore?

[Father Goose]

Whut!? You've never seen Jersey Shore?

:har: Actually I have not! We don't get that on the island here. :)

[u crank]

:har: Actually I have not! We don't get that on the island here. :)

You are fortunate Sir. :yep:

I've only seen enough of it to know it's not for me. Took about two minutes as I recall.

[Wolferz]

It's a moot point. Yellowstone could pop at any time within the next 500 years and that puppy will likely wipe out most of the human race. The only survivors will be those lucky enough to hole up in one of those government bunkers.The pyroclastic cloud will bulldoze the surface of everything at 700 MPH and blot out the sun for years.
Evolution will begin all over again.:up:
Eventually, another Wolferz and another Armistead will develop and have the same old arguments.:har: