Stephen Hawking: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”
Source: GeraldKutney
Stephen Hawking: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”
Source: GeraldKutney
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its going to be way fewer years than that. i give it like 300. To add to hawkings point, jaques cousteau said we need to kill 350,000 humans per day to stabilize the population in 1991. he saw how fast things were declining way back then.
Well, it’s obvious – no infinite growth on a finite planet – the only way out is up.
Imagine a baby refusing to be born or a chicken refusing to leave the egg as the yolk slowly runs out.
Probably best to destroy only one planet, keep our greed contained.
I didnt take stephen hawking as a doomer.
Yes we are currently screwing the planet, but not because we cannot into space. Even with current tech we can build sustainable societies, they just won’t support billionaires and their AI hallucinations.
This is a completely illogical statement by an intellectual not skilled in working in the real world of trade offs. Pessimistic projections are so popular.
And like all academic science, you can start to believe you are expert in everything.
Expaning into space is a luxury created by advancement here on earth. It was and is a defensive and offensive military technology. It has enhanced world communication and allows observation of weather saving lives. It gives inspiration to youth of what man can accomplish.
Stephen Hawking is brilliant. He is not omnipotent.
The energy expended to get into space is directly proportional to having resources here in earth of sufficient quality to fund and fuel space.
1000 years from now the oceans can be higher or lower. The earth we know today may have a smaller or greater population. We will adapt.
We might live shorter or longer lives. New heath issues will rise and others fade. There is no single solution to unknown problems in our future.
This is some ‘don’t bother with this planet, we should plan an escape’ climate change denial posting.
You know what’s infinitely cheaper and more realistic? Holding those industries culpable and taxing the rich.
Yeah, that’s the ticket, use up resources to send a select few out into the lifeless void.
Don’t take advice from an Epstein buddy.
Although if they could do it soon and send all billionaires off-planet forever, I’d be willing to donate to the cause. But they all gotta go. Along with everyone who palled around with Epstein.
If we can’t find a way to survive together on this planet first, then we certainly won’t survive when there are different offshoots of humanity across the solar system.
How long will it take for the Martian humans to decide we’re a threat and they need to stop us getting weapons of mass destruction?
i would have believed it a couple of years ago but now we seem to be on the right track. many countries are moving away from coal including big countries like china and india. wars and rising fuel prices are also pushing countries to shift toward renewable energy sources.
india has even developed a fast breeder reactor and in the future plans to build thorium reactors, which could potentially power the country for tens of thousands of years using its reserves. so overall the future looks more optimistic now
Let’s not forget that this sex freak was in the Epstein files.
Good, there’s a rocket ready to go to Mars. Just have to ask this weird guy from south africa, there’s certainly a seat left. He said his rockets will be ready in 2026 to go to Mars, I haven’t check on him since. I hope he wasn’t lying
BS. Let’s rid ourselves of the Cancer/Parasite Class and put our earth back in harmony.
He’s an idiot, that Stephen Hawking
We can’t even keep earth terraformed but sure, let’s see how much better we’ll do out there. 😂
200 years later:
“It is the year 0079 in the Universal Century. A half-century has passed since earth began moving its burdening population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. A new home for mankind, where people are born and raised. And die.”
Earthlings cannot survive anywhere but earth.
He was kind of a pervert. We don’t have to take everything he said so seriously.
I don’t think humanity can survive itself is actually what he is saying
Who knows? It’s easy to underestimate the remarkable resilience and real ingenuity of the human race. 0ne thousand years is too far ahead to foresee but I’m not sure we can extend very far into the universe in that timeframe. The distances we would need to travel outside the solar system are mind boggling.