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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."
There is no future for mankind in space. As a matter of fact, just as there were no humans a long time ago, there will be no humans a long time from now. Evolution is still happening now, you know. And no, space is not the future. It's empty, hostile, vast, barren and desolate. It's a radiation-blasted vacuum with a few lifeless rocks strewn about. The ridiculous over-optimism and total ignorance of the Nutter crowd (you know the type, calling this planet a "rock", as if the other planets are any different, hell, the other planets aren't even rocks) is hilarious to watch, scary to realize that they're serious.
Tell me Dr Hawking, what do you plan to do about the fact that people, the fittest specimens of humanity mind you, fall apart in space? How does putting a few test pilots in low Earth orbit change a single thing for the 7 billion people we have here?
Get over it, the Space Age is dead. As a matter of fact, Dr Hawking, in the Space Age you'd be dead. You're in the Information Age now and thanks to computers you can still communicate. Think we'd send paraplegics in space?
Just because he's smart in one, tiny narrow hyper-specialized brnach of mathematics, doesn't make his view points on sci-fi delusions valid, or even important. He's not even wrong.