Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com)

Stephen Hawking says the only way humankind can escape mass extinction is to find another planet. And the clock is ticking. From a report on USA Today:During a speech at Britain's Oxford University Union, Hawking detailed the history of man's understanding of the universe and reiterated that the future of humankind lies in space. "We must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity," he said. "I don't think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet."

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Re:futurist

[Anonymous Coward]

Came in to find the guy who think hes smarter than Hawking. Found him in five seconds.

Re:why are people reporting on this?

[wonkey_monkey]

and then walking it back.

That's not how he rolls.

Re: Article is pretty light on details

[lgw]

Clinton wasn't going to do anything about climate change and her starting WW3 with Russia to appease the defence contractors that own her definitely wouldn't have helped the situation.

Now that's just not true! Nuclear winter would have set back global warming by decades, if not centuries. She was the only candidate willing to actually do something about global warming!

Re:futurist

[Pseudonymous Powers]

I don't think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.

He seem to be rather optimistic. I gave it no more than a few hundred years

I'm thinking 3 months tops, some time after Jan. 21st.

Oooh, I want to play! I predict that humanity will go extinct before I finish this sentence.

Damn!

Re: Article is pretty light on details

[Yvan256]

Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter canceled it out.

Re:futurist

[Anne Thwacks]

Most Americans could survive a winter without food

But how many could survive a winter without cable TV?