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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lol

[Anonymous Coward]

lol good luck with that

Re:lol

[Ex-MislTech]

LOL, another human hater.

Probably would have foamed with orgasmic joy at Professor Pianka's speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims-Pianka_controversy

Probably another new age cult GAIA, Gerogia Guidestone, worshipping Neo-druid.

http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-druidism

The current batch of religions are bad enough without bringing back more
whacked out bogus BS to further enslave the ppl.

Reminds me of the nut jobs carving the hearts out of living ppl in Central America.

The point Mr. Hawking is trying to make is that most organisms
on Earth were almost wiped out by one super volcano in the pacific.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

There are plenty of other things that have us in their cross hairs
such as the theory that there is a 26 million year repeating reset
on this planet due to something in space that keeps making return visits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(star)

We have done a lot of bad things, on this planet, and we are
learning better ways to do things.

As Gandhi said, be the change you want to see in the world.

Between the half a dozen Super Volcanoes and threats
from off planet we will be getting a reduction at some point.

Right now the Neo-malthusians are moving ahead with their plan
to make you happy, hope you know how to speak Esperanto !

So?

[Jerrei]

Who cares what a physician thinks? go back to popping hemorrhoids buddy.

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously...in the eyes of an atheist, why is there any desire to preserve mankind? If we're here by chance, we should go away by chance as well. Ultimately something better will come along.

I am doing my part

[Barsamin]

I spread the load twice a day.

Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME?

[Anonymous Bullard]

The start of the credit crisis was either 10 or 30 years ago? Not when the US and soon afterwards European industrialists chose to grant the People's republic MFN and free ticket to WTO while relocating their factories there? Wasn't that the beginning of the end of the West? Soon after the fall of the Warsaw Pact?