Stephen Hawking has a question for you

[H_T_]

all that will be left of the earth is my cock. and one day aliens from a far away galaxy will come and find HT's penis and their conclusion will be that humans were a race of giants and probably had the universes happiest women.....

 

[fistfullofsteel]

for a guy so smart, he's so stupid.

not even hawking can escape the, "you're so stupid" comment.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

for a guy so smart, he's so stupid.

The past few thousand years we have had WAYYYY more wars, diseases, disasters, genocides and oppression. And we somehow survived, even tho our ancestors suffered dearly.

Life today is a GODSEND compared to prior history - so lol @ him thinking that we are on our way to disaster. They predicted that too in the past.

Society-wise we're better-off than ever. Politically - we have more democracies than ever. Even in regions that have been dictator-run most of their lifetime.

Environmentally - if you ignore the hippies, the sky is not falling. First it was global cooling, now global warming. I live in a city full of smog, yet we still have healthy in-shape people. The world is bleeding, but FAR from a disaster.

There's no telling when the breaking point will be reached.

 

[bignate73]

for a guy so smart, he's so stupid.

The past few thousand years we have had WAYYYY more wars, diseases, disasters, genocides and oppression. And we somehow survived, even tho our ancestors suffered dearly.

Life today is a GODSEND compared to prior history - so lol @ him thinking that we are on our way to disaster. They predicted that too in the past.

Society-wise we're better-off than ever. Politically - we have more democracies than ever. Even in regions that have been dictator-run most of their lifetime.

Environmentally - if you ignore the hippies, the sky is not falling. First it was global cooling, now global warming. I live in a city full of smog, yet we still have healthy in-shape people. The world is bleeding, but FAR from a disaster.

big difference between throwing rocks, spears, arrows, and swords, between chemical weapons, precision missiles, and the heavily built up areas that could suffer with precision bombing. the capacity for casualties and death is much higher. we have more efficient weapons. its like saying back in the 1800's athletes used to run at a certain pace, but nowadays they run faster. its more effective training and more efficient means. yes our medicine is advanced and disease etc doesn't claim the vast numbers that it used to.

environmentally....if you listen to anyone aware of manufacture and industry...there is more $hit in the world. more toxins, more byproducts of production, more waste.

society....yes we're getting better. more education and more experiences make people more open minded, and informed about things.

life is way better than it has been but you have to wonder when it will hit its zenith. the exponential rate at which technology is increasing (in just the past 50 years alone) is what is making us feel advanced, not our mindset.

 

[PICK3]

On the other hand, humanity has shown an amazing ability to rebound from disasters.
Personally, I think all wars should be faught hand to hand. It's a lot more gruesome, & demoralizing for the participants. And if nations wipe each other out, there's always more people to take their place.

Dr. Hawking thinks that our ability to survive past 100 more years is dependent on us finding suitable living quarters in space.

Quote from the article: In a speech June 13 in Hong Kong, Hawking said the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth.

He said that if humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that can continue without support from Earth.

 

[PICK3]

Hawking's question: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/07/hawking.question.ap/index.html

I don't know if we can, but we'll probably survive for the rest of my miserable existence.

Wished samoth would get up in here.

 

[patsfan1379]

You can not stop nature/God/whatever - it will find a way to even out.

 

[redguru]

Actually I expect, not Samoth but Feynman, to show up in this thread.

 

[Liebnitz]

Feynman never gave me credit for inventing calculus.

 

[PICK3]

Feynman never gave me credit for inventing calculus.

yet he credited Al Gore for inventing the internet ... go figure