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Hawking says "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction"
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...ephen-hawking/
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08-09-2010, 12:28 PM | #2 |
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Can we send him first?
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08-09-2010, 12:30 PM | #3 |
Take a Chill Pill
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He's dying to be relevant for the time being, but I agree with him that inevitably we will need to colonize in space.
Battlestar Galactica style. |
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08-09-2010, 12:34 PM | #4 |
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It seems as though his talky machine has become self aware.
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08-09-2010, 12:39 PM | #5 |
I'm with the banned.
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We could make it look like someone tripped on his cord.
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08-09-2010, 12:47 PM | #6 |
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I completely agree that our best chance at long-term survival is to get outposts offplanet. We will be doing good to succeed in this endeavor in the next 200 years though, IMO.
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08-09-2010, 01:22 PM | #7 |
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It's not really that easy to do, I don't think. JMO though. I also think there are other humans out there, anyways, so it's all good.
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08-09-2010, 01:28 PM | #8 |
You GOTTA get it done!
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I agree with him. Man will destroy himself through nuclear attacks within the next 100 years, IMO. Start over again with a better life form in a few centuries.
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08-09-2010, 01:31 PM | #9 |
Would an idiot do that?
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Playing a regular season game in London doesn't seem so bad now.
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08-09-2010, 01:34 PM | #10 |
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My best friend has a doctorate in physics and knows several people who have met Hawking. Apparently he's a complete bastard - treats everybody around him like dirt and enjoys running into/over people with his wheelchair.
I guess I can't really blame him for being angry at life, though. |
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08-09-2010, 01:37 PM | #11 |
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he's likely not far off.
there's a great book about how societies after the fertile crescent (the advent of agricultural societies and vast elimination of 'primitive' societies) have very short lifespans and, essentially, always self-destruct. "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. this diatribe by hawking is strangely apropos in regard to the book. |
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08-09-2010, 01:38 PM | #12 | |
You GOTTA get it done!
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08-09-2010, 01:39 PM | #13 |
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I saw a documentary about this very thing a few weeks ago.
One scientist suggested something that could be very plausible, and that is to build sustainable communities on the ocean floor. It would be far more difficult to colonize another planet than it would be to colonize the ocean floor. It'd be expensive as hell, because you'd have to catch, store, and release oxygen and fresh water. Plus, you can only live so many feet under the sea without getting yourself crushed to death or whatever.
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08-09-2010, 01:40 PM | #14 |
Keep doubting J MFing Houston
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08-09-2010, 01:40 PM | #15 |
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This is just common sense. I know this dude is a genius, but duh on what he's saying.
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