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.'"

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[itistoday]

It seems that even Hawking believes that any attempt to change Western culture is in vain. Western society bears a remarkable resemblance to cancer. Fly over urban metropolises and you'll see pus and grime coming out of them, a haze of brown tinges their atmosphere. 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".

They haven't the slightest hint of how to be happy. They're always unsatisfied. They need more and more, and they live for the future.

In these cultures, from the day you are born you are being rushed to some unknown destination. You go to grade school and graduate that, and that's great because then you go on to high school, and you better good grades so that you can graduate and continue on to college. That's great because then you can go on to graduate school and get a job. You continue in hopes of reaching that future success. 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. And there was. In their rush to get you to this point they've made you miss everything.

Finally, westerners are incredibly lonely. They feel as if they are isolated egos inside of a bag of skin. Their idea of God is this old "grampa" like figure who's "king of kings" sitting "up there" in heaven and ruling over the cosmos. Well... I could go on about this, but then I'd fill up several pages. If you're interested about what I said here, please know that it was basically all taken from the words of Alan Watts, the 20th century's best and little known-about philosopher and interpreter of Eastern religions. To get a taste of his works read the first two chapters (forgive their design) for free online from his book: "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are".

Re:Poor solution

[divisionbyzero]

I'm sorry. Your "words of wisdom" became cliches about thirty years ago. The rest of the world has moved on. Yeah, plenty of people still worship at the altar of consumerism but as wealth has spread people have learned that being wealthy isn't the only thing they need to be happy.

It seems your study of eastern philosophy hasn't done much for your egoism. You are negatively defining your self against the other, "I'm not that." Guess what? You are that. Until you deal with it you'll be trapped in that little ego you hate so much.

Go Hairless Apes! Go Hairless Apes!

[AmazingRuss]

USA! USA! USA!

Re:I doubt it.

[WilliamSChips]

wraith (from atlantis, who now have our coordinates)

If the Ori find the Wraith(the Wraith are headed for Earth and no Prior has been outside of the SGC on Earth), the Wraith will probably suffer the same fate as every other race the Ori meet: join or die.

replicators (from the asgard galaxy, who have our coordinates BUT are stuck (IIRC, AFAIK) in a time distortion field)

From Wikipedia: "The Dakara weapon fired and destroyed all the Replicators, including the ship Daniel Jackson was on, thus ending the war with the Goa'uld and Humans. It is unknown whether Replicators outside the Milky Way were also destroyed by the weapon."

asgard

This is the really interesting one. We know there were O'Neill-class battleships in the finale fighting against the Ori, we don't know how well they fared(will fare)

remaining go'auld

Nerus, a minor Goa'uld under Ba'al, was a one-time follower of Origin. Ba'al is clearly afraid of the Ori(as evidenced by his takeover attempt of the Jaffa Council)

ancients (yeah, like they'll really do anything!)

The Ori are investing a great deal of effort in the Milky Way Galaxy because the Alterans are there. The Ori want to extinguish the Ancients.