Hawking "humans must leave earth to survive"

mysticweed
mysticweed Posts: 3,710
edited April 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
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.
fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

"what a long, strange trip it's been"
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I won't be here in 1000 years-I'm not worried.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,911
    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
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Nibiru is Coming!
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    i believe it will be too freaking hot for humans to thrive by 1000 years
    mass exodus or mass extinction
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    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
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    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
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    idiot
  • DURP
    DURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    meh
    My butt itches!
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,027
    edited April 2013
    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.
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,350
    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 ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I'm ready. Fly me to the Moon!
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    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.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,350
    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 ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    my wife and i looked at 3 places on mars last weekend.

    way overpriced. :roll:
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    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
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    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
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,272
    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. 
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    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
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,272
    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. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



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