It's time to abandon Earth, warned the world's most famous theoretical physicist.Well, here's what I see. I see that Stephen Hawking needs a cup of tea, a warm blanket, and a nap.
In an interview with website Big Think , Stephen Hawking warned that the long-term future of the planet is in outer space.
"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet," he said.
"I see great dangers for the human race," Hawking said. "There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. (Fox News, 2010/08/09)
How am I supposed to mediate between, say, Eric Pianka (too many people are dooming us) and Hawking's view that we won't survive unless we move to another planet?
From anything I know, we'd be best to forget the lot of them.
The fact that insane regimes have nuclear arms is certainly a problem, but it is a solvable one.
We used to solve it in the past by not letting them have them.
PS: Hawking actually appeared on Star Trek. Maybe that is why I thought of it.
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