Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking

thomst writes "The Winnipeg Free Press posts a story by Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press about an email interview with Stephen Hawking in which the astrophysicist and geek hero opines, 'Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.' The story also covers the upcoming Canadian debut of Hawking's new TV series 'Brave New World With Stephen Hawking,' and his excitement about ongoing work at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ont. investigating quantum theory and gravity."

Comments

Conservation can work, too

[JoeMerchant]

Colonizing space is a nice idea, it has been my dream since I was five. However, I have another suggestion that could also work.

Re:Space ninjas

[Brucelet]

Trying to tell how tongue-in-cheek you are when you tell Steven Hawking to get off his butt.

Re:Don't be silly

[siddesu]

Or we can just build a good brain interface and just re-create the Matrix. Then we can have any kind of lifestyle and all the conflict we want, and for free.