Stephen Hawking says humans must eventually leave the Earth

  On 4/13/2013 at 11:14 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 4/13/2013 at 10:54 PM, BCM said:

let's get into space and kick some ass!

would have been a much better movie title:

 

 

lol

  On 4/13/2013 at 11:13 PM, gaarg said:

 

  On 4/13/2013 at 10:37 PM, Bread said:

 

  On 4/13/2013 at 10:35 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

Also, if we figured out how to use wormholes. I mean that would potentially be pretty super.

lol - if we can't live together peacefully on this planet, then a wormhole will only help in disseminating across space our cultural inadequacies.

 

I think understanding space, physics, and all the other mysteries of the universe are the key to proving whether a god, or god like being, actually exists.

 

I hope it happens soon, because religion seems to be the basis of a lot of unnecessary conflict.

 

fixed

The blind ego of humanity leads us to think that in a 1,000 years humans will still be the most sophisticated form of life on Earth and that it all rides on us.

  On 4/14/2013 at 1:15 AM, wabby said:

The blind ego of humanity leads us to think that in a 1,000 years humans will still be the most sophisticated form of life on Earth and that it all rides on us.

yep.

what makes you guys think we'll survive another 1000 years? unless we (our species) get our shit together, we're not gonna last that long.

I can't view that article from this computer, but I sure hope he said something a little more substantial than that. Is there anyone who hasn't already come to the same conclusion (aside from babies)?

It's pretty obvious that Hawking just needs to get laid and maybe blaze some icky (aka torch a bone)

  On 4/14/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

It's pretty obvious that Hawking just needs to get laid and maybe blaze some icky (aka torch a bone)

I doubt he's in any condition to do so..

  On 4/14/2013 at 1:19 AM, Hoodie said:

 

  On 4/14/2013 at 1:15 AM, wabby said:

The blind ego of humanity leads us to think that in a 1,000 years humans will still be the most sophisticated form of life on Earth and that it all rides on us.

 

yep.

 

what makes you guys think we'll survive another 1000 years? unless we (our species) get our shit together, we're not gonna last that long.

 

Basically this quote from Wiki...

"Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago."

I have my doubts about our civilizations - as we know them - surviving to the year 3000. Climate change is going to put some serious fucking dampers on our ability to thrive if we don't curb it soon. And as a species, we're not curbing it at all. It'll be interesting to see if we can engineer our way out of it, but the world - according to the scientists and books I pay attention to anyway - will be a really different place a millenium from now. I hope we're still around, but I don't think Earth is going to be quite so nice as it is now... which is why I echoed Deer's "no shit, Dr Hawking" comment earlier

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

Martin Luther King

Don't be a dick.

Don't have kids™

  On 4/14/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

It's pretty obvious that Hawking just needs to get laid and maybe blaze some icky (aka torch a bone)

Did you just yolo Stephen Hawking?

  On 4/14/2013 at 1:14 PM, Godwin Austen said:

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

 

Martin Luther King

wow, beautiful quote. it's very true.

But that's true for the entire human history since the times we learned to create fire, right? People have been consistently better in science than in spirituality.

MLK was pretty good at romantic rhetorics, I guess.

  On 4/14/2013 at 4:56 PM, goDel said:

But that's true for the entire human history since the times we learned to create fire, right? People have been consistently better in science than in spirituality.

 

MLK was pretty good at romantic rhetorics, I guess.

Well that's exactly the point goDel. I don't know what is the purpose of your last sentence though, other than trolling. Unfortunately, we're pretty late to recognize that fact. Furthermore, MLK had to be assassinated just to further postpone such developments.

  On 4/14/2013 at 2:18 PM, Ceerial said:

 

  On 4/14/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

It's pretty obvious that Hawking just needs to get laid and maybe blaze some icky (aka torch a bone)

 

Did you just yolo Stephen Hawking?

 

yes, twice.

Well duh...

But where does he purpose we go and how?

The universe is just a broader scope, a frontier like all others to be owned and nested by humans. It is like leveling up in an RPG game. Getting to level 10 (continent to continent) is easier than getting to level 20 (planet to planet) ...ad infinitum.

So, how many Earths will humanity need to sustain itself in 50 years?

I still don't think seeking sanctuary in an off-world environment is the best way to go. That would be like crapping too much in one toilet and flooding it and then going to another vacant one and doing the same to that one over the course of time. Why not use a plunger?

Why can't we just remain here and fix the crap that we started?

A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.

Kinda like the Sierra Madre

But wouldn't space-radiation eventually kill us while traveling?

The moon will be a refuge for the non-cis people of the Earth, so they can tell the cis scum to check their Earth privilege

  On 4/14/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

It's pretty obvious that Hawking just needs to get laid and maybe blaze some icky (aka torch a bone)

lmao

permanent off-world relocation