Stephen Hawking seems to state than nucleur war is inevitable. I agree. If mankind slips back to the stone age, then he must start all over again. However, the nearest coal is a mile down and the nearest oil is five miles down. What fueled the last industrial age cannot fuel another one. Also all the great mineral deposits have been mined and scattered over the earth. A new industrial age will not be able to start again for another 500 million years when new coal and oil deposits have been created. Mankind will not survive that long as a cave man. Thus Stephen Hawking suggests we must inhabit other worlds that will not be destoried in the nucleur war on earth. How can mankind ever reach another industrial age on earth without oil and coal? Possibly this also answers Hawking's question. Maybe mankind will be stuck in a pre-industrial age of the 1700's and never again invent a way to destory itself.
2006-07-07 12:52:07 · 6 answers · asked by Michael D 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Even an all-out nuclear war would destroy only a fraction of the world's industry. Consider, for example, South America. Who would nuke them? Nobody. Yet the continent as a whole, if cast adrift in a world without North America or Europe, would survive. They have their own coal and oil. They have their own minerals. They make their own electricity. They manufacture airplanes and autos.
2006-07-07 13:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-30 20:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people are tough and people are smart
nuclear war will be a terrible horrible unforgiveable disaster
but people will survive, and knowledge will survive, and people will go on and do with whatever they have got
if they can't find coal on the surface, they will know that it is available in mines, some of which will survive
if will be horrible, but knowledge is the real key, not coal
2006-07-07 12:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real problem is that most of our information and databases are now on computers.
They'll be the hardest things for people 500-1500 years from now to figure out. Especially if they can't figure out how to get around Windows.
2006-07-07 13:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes man can survive and return to his industrial technology again but it will take time too
2006-07-07 13:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by lepactodeloupes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life ALWAYS finds a way. LOL I bet we will discover another souce of energy instead.
2006-07-07 12:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by fiteprogram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋