Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking

siliconbits writes "According to famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, it's time to free ourselves from Mother Earth. 'I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,' Hawking tells Big Think. '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. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.'"

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Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME?

[J-1000]

You have a $320 Comcast bill!? How is that even possible?

Voice Over

[ciderbrew]

Does anyone else read the part in quotes in a synthesizer voice?

Re:A bit early for leaving

[Rik Sweeney]

Nah, let's just write this one off as a practice planet. We won't make the same mistakes again since we're human after all :)

Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME?

[Crudely_Indecent]

You're asking a user named "TrisexualPuppy"

One word - Spanktervision

The survivors joke

[smith6174]

It won't take too much technology to reproduce Hawking's voice saying "I told you so"

Re:Oh, look, a content mill getting attention

[discord5]

Of course, it may not necessarily be plagiarism, because he's been saying this for years

Little known fact is that he has sentences pre-programmed into his voice synthesizer. Things like:

• Yes
• No
• Thank you
• Two sugars, no milk
• I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space
• I will not buy this record, it is scratched
• I call it a Hawking hole

So yes, he does quite often mistakenly say it while ordering a cup of coffee, during a casual interview about his work.

Re:I submit this possibility

[whatajoke]

What if Earth isn't the first human colony, and these disasters have merely wiped out the evidence of our migration...

I am more comfortable being a descendant of some ape, than a bunch of hairdressers or telephone cleaners.