Hawking "humans must leave earth to survive"

mysticweed

Time to rethink those NASA budget cuts?

http://now.msn.com/stephen-hawking-said ... to-survive

Stephen Hawking knows a thing or two about how the universe works. So when the renowned physicist issues a warning that our time on Earth is running out, it’s probably worth hearing him out. Hawking recently told an audience at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that, if mankind would like to continue existing, we need to get off this rock of ours — pronto (well, in science years). Hawking said human beings "won't survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet," and that we need to continue space exploration so we can get off this sinking ship called Earth.

RKCNDY

I won't be here in 1000 years-I'm not worried.

MayDay10

I think he is wrong.


I agree with eventually, we will have to. At some point for humans to keep existing, we will need another planet.

To put a time frame on it like that is a bit ignorant IMO.

BinauralJam

Nibiru is Coming!

mysticweed

i believe it will be too freaking hot for humans to thrive by 1000 years
mass exodus or mass extinction

chadwick

wow

1,000 years? that aint no time at all. in 1,000 years... it will be here tomorrow. this dude works fast & quicker. i myself i love earth & dislike assholes screwing earth up with pollutions & greedy ass deep water oil drilling dicks.

stephen hawking is out of his mind from one day to the next just like many of us. imagination wonderful

mysticweed

chadwick wrote:

i myself i love earth & dislike assholes screwing earth up with pollutions & greedy ass deep water oil drilling dicks.

indeed which is why we will never be able to unwind in time
production was halted and prototypes destroyed on electric cars in the 70's
after the gas "shortage"
that was 40 fucking years ago
had we started then?
well we'll never know

LloydXmas

idiot

DURP

meh

PJ_Soul

Yeah, he said this years ago. And I'm sure he's probably right. No one cares, because most people don't have the ability to care about what happens hundreds of years in the future. The people approving funding for space programs only care about whether or not they're going to win the next election.

I think that ending the shuttle program was only a good idea if they plan on starting a great new program. Which is supposedly the plan. Meanwhile, I guess future generations should feel lucky that China is getting into the space game (hopefully they don't mess up space the way they've messed up China). The US doesn't have to be the one getting people into the space. Humans do. Also luckily, 800 years or whatever it is is a LONG time for technological advancements in space travel to develop.

BinauralJam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw

josevolution

I plan on becoming part of this Earth by way of cremation as soon as my old ass dies off so no leaving for me at least in my physical form ..

intodeep

I'm ready. Fly me to the Moon!

chadwick

josevolution wrote:

I plan on becoming part of this Earth by way of cremation as soon as my old ass dies off so no leaving for me at least in my physical form ..

nicely done.

josevolution

chadwick wrote:

josevolution wrote:

I plan on becoming part of this Earth by way of cremation as soon as my old ass dies off so no leaving for me at least in my physical form ..

nicely done.

I know you will do the same ..

The Juggler

my wife and i looked at 3 places on mars last weekend.

way overpriced. :roll:

chadwick

The Juggler wrote:

my wife and i looked at 3 places on mars last weekend.

way overpriced. :roll:

and then you have fence work & out of the ordinary unruly neighbors & their bullshit millennium falcon or something

helplessdancer

now he is saying we have 100 years left before human extinction. even if he is wrong by 100 years we most surely are F'd. whats KILLS me is to find human cave paintings that are 35,000 years old, and here we are, the people who fuck up the planet in the last 100 years...

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/stephen-hawking-human-extinction-colonize-planet.html

HughFreakingDillon

I don't buy it. he is trying to sell his documentary. any time someone makes a bold, especially fear-based claim like that, and it turns out they are promoting something, I call BS. 

helplessdancer

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

HughFreakingDillon

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

yes, I have heard that too. it is realy difficult for me to fathom us overfishing to the point of the ocean being empty in only 30 years. the sheer vastness of it doesn't seem to add up. 

either way, I am going to encourage my kids to not procreate. Get a dog. 

PJ_Soul

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

I recently read that Vancouver would have about the same climate as San Diego by 2050, which would be a complete ecological and economic disaster obviously. That wasn't a Hawking prediction either. Yeah, we're fucked. I am REALLY glad I chose not to have children. I feel better about that choice every fucking day. Which is depressing, in a way, lol.

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

yes, I have heard that too. it is realy difficult for me to fathom us overfishing to the point of the ocean being empty in only 30 years. the sheer vastness of it doesn't seem to add up. 

either way, I am going to encourage my kids to not procreate. Get a dog. 

Never underestimate the ability of humans to decimate a population quickly. They managed to nearly wipe out beavers and buffalo in North America in only a handful of decades back when the population was only a small fraction of what it is today. I have no doubt whatsoever that people can empty the oceans and seas in 30 years, especially with climate change doing the same job at the same time..... It's also fathomable that somehow governments will step in and do something real before this happens... but I'm not holding my breath. I feel extremely pessimistic about the future of humanity and how much damage it can still do before it's gone.

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

yes, I have heard that too. it is realy difficult for me to fathom us overfishing to the point of the ocean being empty in only 30 years. the sheer vastness of it doesn't seem to add up. 

either way, I am going to encourage my kids to not procreate. Get a dog. 

Never underestimate the ability of humans to decimate a population quickly. They managed to nearly wipe out beavers and buffalo in North America in only a handful of decades back when the population was only a small fraction of what it is today. I have no doubt whatsoever that people can empty the oceans and seas in 30 years, especially with climate change doing the same job at the same time..... It's also fathomable that somehow governments will step in and do something real before this happens... but I'm not holding my breath. I feel extremely pessimistic about the future of humanity and how much damage it can still do before it's gone.

there is an unimaginable amount of fish in the sea. not really comparable to beavers or buffalo. but still, i see your point. i have a hard time believing that governments will step in, because that would require international cooperation on an unprecedented level, and that just won't happen. if it does, it will most likely be too late already. humankind has a bad habit of fixing things when they are already beyond repair. 

oftenreading

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

yes, I have heard that too. it is realy difficult for me to fathom us overfishing to the point of the ocean being empty in only 30 years. the sheer vastness of it doesn't seem to add up. 

either way, I am going to encourage my kids to not procreate. Get a dog. 

Never underestimate the ability of humans to decimate a population quickly. They managed to nearly wipe out beavers and buffalo in North America in only a handful of decades back when the population was only a small fraction of what it is today. I have no doubt whatsoever that people can empty the oceans and seas in 30 years, especially with climate change doing the same job at the same time..... It's also fathomable that somehow governments will step in and do something real before this happens... but I'm not holding my breath. I feel extremely pessimistic about the future of humanity and how much damage it can still do before it's gone.

there is an unimaginable amount of fish in the sea. not really comparable to beavers or buffalo. but still, i see your point. i have a hard time believing that governments will step in, because that would require international cooperation on an unprecedented level, and that just won't happen. if it does, it will most likely be too late already. humankind has a bad habit of fixing things when they are already beyond repair. 

There is not an unimaginable amount of fish in the sea (I mean, unless you're talking about dating....). The ocean's resources are vast but definitely not unlimited. Humans have already wiped out certain fish populations by overfishing and we are not learning from that lesson. Fishing technology is just far too efficient now. When you count in waste from bycatch and the fact that a lot of species are unpalatable, I can easily see humans turning the oceans into a desert.

HughFreakingDillon

oftenreading said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

helplessdancer said:

i've also heard the fish will run out in the ocean by 2050, just saying...and that one's not mister hawking's prediction!
we are f'd no matter which way you slice the sandwich  

yes, I have heard that too. it is realy difficult for me to fathom us overfishing to the point of the ocean being empty in only 30 years. the sheer vastness of it doesn't seem to add up. 

either way, I am going to encourage my kids to not procreate. Get a dog. 

Never underestimate the ability of humans to decimate a population quickly. They managed to nearly wipe out beavers and buffalo in North America in only a handful of decades back when the population was only a small fraction of what it is today. I have no doubt whatsoever that people can empty the oceans and seas in 30 years, especially with climate change doing the same job at the same time..... It's also fathomable that somehow governments will step in and do something real before this happens... but I'm not holding my breath. I feel extremely pessimistic about the future of humanity and how much damage it can still do before it's gone.

there is an unimaginable amount of fish in the sea. not really comparable to beavers or buffalo. but still, i see your point. i have a hard time believing that governments will step in, because that would require international cooperation on an unprecedented level, and that just won't happen. if it does, it will most likely be too late already. humankind has a bad habit of fixing things when they are already beyond repair. 

There is not an unimaginable amount of fish in the sea (I mean, unless you're talking about dating....). The ocean's resources are vast but definitely not unlimited. Humans have already wiped out certain fish populations by overfishing and we are not learning from that lesson. Fishing technology is just far too efficient now. When you count in waste from bycatch and the fact that a lot of species are unpalatable, I can easily see humans turning the oceans into a desert.

i said unimaginable, not unlimited. i personally can't imagine every single fish on the planet. it's inconceivable to a human. again, i'm not saying we won't ruin it. we most likely will, i just can't see it happening that soon. 

that being said, i'm not against regulations at all. we overfish. we fucking over-everything. it's gross. 

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

I don't buy it. he is trying to sell his documentary. any time someone makes a bold, especially fear-based claim like that, and it turns out they are promoting something, I call BS. 

My first thought was, Stephen Hawk-kaching. 

Plus, these kinds of predictions are so freaking unproductive.  Yes, if we kill the oceans (and we are doing our damnedest to do so) we will go extinct.  If we jack the global temp up too high, adios amigos.  If he engage in all out nuclear war, gonners.  But we don't know when and we don't know how complete will be our demise.  Instead of wasting time making predictions like this, I wish high profile science guys like Hawking would do something useful to help- and a lot of them are- people like Elizabeth Kolbert and Edward O. Wilson-  as well as scores of lesser famous scientists. 

SmallestOceans

23scidoo

He is dangerous and directed..

helplessdancer

what blows my mind is how destructive we have become to our planet in the last 100 years and with the pace of that destruction multiplying faster and faster. we just can't maintain this pace of destruction. be it, the rain forest, the oceans, air pollution etc etc
when we finally strip the ocean of fish what are all those people going to do who depend on fish as their main dietary source of food? are they ready? i doubt it.
do we have another 100 years of being able to sustain ourselves like they way we are now? i highly doubt it and like others have mentioned it will need to be a focused response by everyone on the planet...good luck to that !!
i try to be upbeat and positive mostly but we are headed for extinction and at a accelerating pace! if anything stephen should be commended for making us talk about it...cause the opposite to that is harmful to our species.

brianlux

SmallestOceans said: