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Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space
neutralino writes "The Associated Press reports that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking wants humans to establish colonies in space in order to ensure the survival of the human race. At a news conference in Hong Kong, Hawking said that 'It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.'"
Do we have to go into space right now? Do I have time to go home and change?
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We're running out of it here.
Although seriously, everyone still living on earth makes for a giant single point of failure. But my ping time is going to suck if I start gaming from the moon.
Talk about avoiding the problem.
Instead of fixing our problems and looking for solutions, lets go into space to get away from it all.
some how this seems like a bad idea, or atleast a bad reason. Why not go into space for some positive reason? like to learn or solve a problem like over population...
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He later elaborated on the specific humans who should go into space, including several people he went to school with, that one snooty teller at his bank, his obnoxious neighbors with their noisy children, and that little bastard who egged his house last Halloween.
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How are we going to take cows into space? We need cows for steaks and dairy (milk, cheese and ice cream).
They have spacesuits for man. Could they make a spacesuit for a cow? A cowsuit?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
What about that hot nurse of his? Is she coming too?
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Wouldn't irony be more like mankind sets off in giant spaceships to colonize the galaxy and save the planet only to die horrifically in a freak interstellar traffic accident? It could happen easily too, I don't see any stop signs up there! And how do you do right of way in 3 dimensions?? It's madness I say!
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TFA: "Hawking said that 'It is important for the human race to spread out into space....'"
mmm, I'll bet that long after Steven Hawking is gone, his chair will be still be giving lectures, advice, and making scientific discoveries...
Well then we'd better learn how to travel to other galaxies, fast.
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Well we'd best get crackin' then!
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Dr. Hawking further elaborated on his suggestion that the space colonies include 10 women for every man:
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
There's is little point in escapint to space. After all space and time will collapse within 3,000 Zillion years(aprox.) anyway. You're just delaying innevitability. What we really need to plan is an escape from this doomed dimention!
Hello nurse! I have a feeling that the "spongebath" button on his synthesizer is very well-worn...
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I would suggest sending a module of cockroaches and kitchen scraps to Mars. If they can't form a surviving colony there, then nothing could possibly survive.
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He and his daugther are writing a children's book.
The real choice is liberty versus control. -- Bruce Schneier
Stereotyping is so much easier than thinking, isn't it?
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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Fly over urban metropolises and you'll see pus and grime coming out of them, a haze of brown tinges their atmosphere.
But from my SUV the sun is dimmed to a pleasant orange color.
People shuttle to and fro in their daily lives, consuming as much as their salaries will allow. They justify this as acceptable in the "spirit of capitalism". It's "acceptable" to spend all that money on crap you don't need, because everybody else has it, or "it's cool".
But aren't you free to reject these ideas. People would gravitate to better alternatives. It is hard to beat Nascar on my plasma HD and a six pack of beer
Then most of these blobs will be told they need to hurry up there too, so that they can meet that quota, and then by the time you're 40, bald, and more or less impotent, you say: "My God! I've arrived!" And you look around and realize that not much changed, and you feel a big let down, you feel deceived, as if there was some hoax played on you.
This is a victim's thinking. Are you having a midlife crisis? Try buying a red sports car.
If you're interested about what I said here, please know that it was basically all taken from the words of Alan Watts [wikipedia.org], the 20th century's best and little known-about philosopher and interpreter of Eastern religions.
Sounds kinda creepy to me, like Heaven's Gate. If you haven't noticed a lot of people from the far east are highly motivated by US style consumerism. You can only meditate so much I guess.
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No, irony is like ra-eeee-ain on your wedding day.
He also began beating the crap out of his right arm which refused to cooperate in general and had a propensity to give the hitler salute at the worst possible moments.
Look, the Federation may have been a military dicatorship, but it worked for some people...
All I'm saying is that if humans need to spread out into the galaxy to ensure the survival of the species, Will Shatner and I are ready to go out and sleep with all the alien babes it'll take to make that happen. We'll take one for the team - that's just the sort of guys we are.
"Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things."
Are you going to write the series? That sounds pretty good as a series concept.
"Star Fleet - Shadows of the Federation". (yes, I stole that from SOTE)
Go pitch it to Paramount...I'm getting the popcorn ready!
Why, that would require an army of super-virile men scoring around the clock. Kif, clear my schedule.
Hmmm, who's the bigger nerd. The one who quotes star trek, or the one who quotes a star trek actor on saturday night live?