Stephen Hawking has a question for you

[jackangel]

the razornav strikes again.

hawking - 0wn3d.

 

[Trojan Horse]

Interplanetary exploration/colonization is critical to sustaining human life in the future. This is the most tantamount means of ensuring that the human race will survive thousands of years from now. Factors sucj as Population increases/diseases/wars/famine/environmental changes etc... deem that we need other places to sustain ourselves. Let us not forget that even if we as a human race don't kill ourselves, we are still populating at an exponential rate. Let us not forget that a meteor the size of a mile in diameter can decimate most living organisms in this planet. Those that would survive would plummet back into the stone age. Our government along with NASA know this. Hence, space exploration is venturing out into new frontiers not disclosed to the general public.

 

[PICK3]

Interplanetary exploration/colonization is critical to sustaining human life in the future. This is the most tantamount means of ensuring that the human race will survive thousands of years from now. Factors sucj as Population increases/diseases/wars/famine/environmental changes etc... deem that we need other places to sustain ourselves. Let us not forget that even if we as a human race don't kill ourselves, we are still populating at an exponential rate. Let us not forget that a meteor the size of a mile in diameter can decimate most living organisms in this planet. Those that would survive would plummet back into the stone age. Our government along with NASA know this. Hence, space exploration is venturing out into new frontiers not disclosed to the general public.

I want to go to "Planet of the Babes"

 

[JayC9]

True
A lot of the shit we see going on now, has been perpetrated by man against man, brother against sister, for untold millenia.
As a race we are perhaps marginally better than we were 500 years ago.
Any improvements we have, I believe have been due to social awareness & the democratic system. Even within those 2 paradigms, however, its been 3 steps forward, 2 steps back.
I hate to question Mr. Hawking's judgement, but I believe the timeline should be 1,000 years, not 100.

The hundred years points to the pressing urgency in the figures, the number crunchers punch in the data and project current trends into the next century or further till they reach a point of saturation. A hundred years also makes it more personal and realistic. It may not have a huge affect on you but it will certainly have an impact on your children and so on. Asking people to consider the state of the human race in a thousand years is taking things into realms of science fiction and wild imagination, it no longer becomes real.

The way Hawking has worded the question seems to be almost a rhetorical statement rather than an open question. "Sustain," to keep it going, to maintain. Put simply imo he's saying the course we're on, how humans live their lives, their present values, is not working and cannot carry us into a bright future because if we can't work out how to live together in harmony after thousands of years with a handful of people how are we going to live together when there's standing room only.

Those arguing that life is much better today than it has ever been are completely missing the point. They need to take off those rose tinted glasses, look further than their nicely trimmed lawn and think about at what cost to the past, present and future does that comfortable life they're leading now come? Of course humans have made advances in science and technology which have been used to improve the quality of life for those that can afford it but none of that progression has been able to solve the same old problems humans have had since the year dot, that of war, strife, pestilence, hunger, poverty etc etc. Those problems aren't getting better, they’re not going away and when magnified by future projection become a rather bleak view for the next generation.

 

[manny78]

So fuckin what... i wont be around in 100 years so I could care less if everyone turned into some green goblins or the whole planet went kaboom....

 

[plifter]

The world has always been like this, yet here we are.

Actually this is far from the truth. The first half of our planet's existance didn't even have life forms. I'm guessing it was pretty calm and peaceful back in Paleozoic times.

 

[PICK3]

We've had that power for the last 40 years.

We've had that power, but the "nuclear club" keeps getting bigger.

 

[Trojan Horse]

I want to go to "Planet of the Babes"

Yea, "The Planet Of the Amazon Babes", where men are scarce and sought after by the masses. I seen a movie like that sometime ago. Some man explored to a planet where it was inhabited by all these glorious babes who took the man hostage/slave and had their way with him. They were all vying for their chance to be with him. It basically created an inserection. I'm sure it caused the man to have alot of erections also.

 

[PICK3]

Yea, "The Planet Of the Amazon Babes", where men are scarce and sought after by the masses. I seen a movie like that sometime ago. Some man explored to a planet where it was inhabited by all these glorious babes who took the man hostage/slave and had their way with him. They were all vying for their chance to be with him. It basically created an inserection. I'm sure it caused the man to have alot of erections also.

yeah ... that will work

 

[seizer]

We've had that power for the last 40 years.

no doubt, but 40 years isnt always.