What are your views on what Physicist Stephen Hawking had to say about the survival of the human race?

Question

Mr. Hawking says that It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survial of the species. He believes there is an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the earth { Global warming, Nuclear war, A genetically engineered virus.}

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/14/ap/tech/mainD8I7NDO00.shtml



I myself believe that moving out into space wouldn't hurt. What with over population and being taking out by an astroid.

Agree that it is going to take alot of work. So we better get started.

I'm not talking about moving to Mars. Please read the artical in the link I provided. And Please only serious answers.

I'M HOPING PEOPLE TO BE OPEN-MINDED ABOUT THIS

Answer 1

To me, it's not realistic to try and find a way to live on Mars soon enough to alleviate the stress on Earth's environment.

I am afraid that the very idea of moving to another planet will only make the problem with the environment worse. Although the idea is to move people out to help the Earth, some people may think that we can just trash this planet and move to a new one.

Population control is one measure that might be necessary, to reduce the stress people cause on the environment, but I don't think the population can be distributed into outer space anytime soon, and we have to begin reducing our negative effect on the Earth right away. Perhaps someday inhabiting other planets will become a reality, but it is not what we need at this point in time, it's a vision of the future, we need answers that can start changing things now.

As for the Nuclear and Bio- warfare problem: We need better global relations, less competition and more cooperation. The ways of business needs to change into something that can work with ethics instead of against them.

Answer 2

If we can live on Mars, then we can live on a globally warmed, nuclear contaminated Earth too, because that is how hard Mars would be to live on. So he must talking about the Loooong run, not in your lifetime, with interstellar travel to other solar systems. That is about as close to happening now as the Moon landings were to Columbus.

Answer 3

yes well he did say the key thing if we do not kill owe self in the next 100 years...
the problem is as i see it too is we just make everything into a garbage dump and so even if we move to a new planet but are we going to be doing the same there?
we have not been in outer space for less then 100 years now but we have turned it into a dump now and it is even getting to the stage of dangerous for craft. so how are we going to get there...

Answer 4

It will have no effect on me or my family tree for the balance of a time epic that I can mentally deal with. Man will visit the universe and perhaps learn of what the string theory leads to - one thing is sure when we learn it all - going to the next fast food planet won't be all there is.