"Stephen Hawking says earth has 100 years left" Topic

Better start building that giant space ship.

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Even if we could find a place, I doubt we could get there within 100 years … without a little help.

I suspect that's more than enough time for me, so…………

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Dan
PS. Unlike some other people, at least he's smart enough to make sure he picks a year way past his lifetime. :)

This YouTube link I think would be a better bet than finding another planet.

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I am always uneasy picking nits with Mr Hawking. That's a no win proposition, obviously, given his physical condition.
But what makes him an expert on everything from dinosaur DNA to the future of Mankind? Sure he's a genius, but so what? I can point to any number of Nobel laureates (which Mr Hawking is not) who were bonkers when they stepped out of their area of expertise. Shockley, anyone? Even Pauling had some … errors.

If Mr Hawking wishes to issue a fatwah on black holes, I'm all ears. But he is as competent as the Pope when he talks outside his expertise.
Hell, even the Pope is only infallible on matters of "faith and morals".

"In the long run, we're all dead"

Valar morghulis.

How do we know that someone hasn't just hacked his talk-pad? This has occurred to me on more than a few occasions (not the least being his appearances on Big Bang Theory, where his "lines" don't even have to be memorized, or even delivered by him, even in the scene). Any computer can be made to read back a phrase entered by anyone, and all will sound exactly the same regardless of who entered the phrase.

So, in the end, interviews of Hawking could easily not be with Hawking at all, but with a hacker.

(I know! Let's blame the Russians!)

He's always been a bit of an optimist.

He has supposedly been saying a lot of wacky stuff in the last few years, my guess is that he misses his ultra-celebrity of a few years back.

My son, who will have no progeny of his own, is convinced that humanity will be extinct in his lifetime.

Given his physical condition,can one be sure that perhaps he's not tinged with some bitterness,and maybe a little madness? After all,when so and so usually predicts the end of the world,we usually laugh.Why is he any different? Just because he's labelled a genius gives him the power to foresee the future?

Wow, must be true Stephen Hawking said it.

I confirmed his Theory.

First name: Stephen: 7 letters long
Last name Hawking: 7 letters long
(7 x 7) = 49

Number of words in his name: 2
(7 x 7) x 2 = 98

Network that will run the TV special he is promoting: BBC 2
[(7 x 7) x 2] + 2 = 100

Raj, Sheldon, Leonard and Howard have nothing on me!!!

The Club of Rome predicted in 1972 in their report "Limits to Growth" that we wouldn't even get this far.

Couldn't agree more with Winston's observation.

Wonder does Stephen have any idea if the Oilers will beat the Duck's tomorrow night…

Well then, time to party like it's 2099!

He does know what he is talking about.

If he is right, who will be around to acknowledge it?

Globalist bull crap. They want you frightened so they can control you. He is nothing but an electronically controlled puppet. We will be here in a 1000 years plus.

Mr. Irrelevant has spoken. He's not the Boss.

Well I all I can say is, I dont plan on dying till all my minis are painted and thats probably going to take longer than 100 years so……

Rabbit!

Come to think of it I remember reading some time ago that he said it would be 1000 years and that doesn't seem like 900 years ago to me

So the alien overlords have only 100 years to get here or they lose out on a potential food source?

Not my problem.

I don't think it is "science" per say, it is the over the top, fake, doom and gloom, end of the world predicting, false narratives, like that big "ice age" some claimed we were going to enter into, back in the 1960s.

Then, it was global warming, and then climate change.

A 0.11 degree average rise in temps doesn't spell the end of the world. There's been plenty of considerable, natural, temperature swings throughout history, even during and prior to the industrial age of the 20th Century.

Scientists and others frequently get stuff wrong; very wrong, in addition to the stuff they get right.

So despite his theories being about countless threat factors to mankind, the reason people are clutching their pearls is because he said climate change?

I believe him. That and I don't care. I'll be long gone by then. Likely, so will my children. Maybe their children will be on the move toward whatever planet we decide to inhabit.

Well, to prevent some of those self-imposed calamities on the space pioneers some kind of screening process should be done. Not just anyone that wants to go to New Earth III will get an invite.

some kind of screening process should be done.

How about something along the lines of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You sell tons of chocolate bars of which their are only as many golden tickets as there are berths on the space ship. You screen them by seeing how they do in various social situations. If any get washed out, you go for a second round and a third and so on until all berths are filled. I figure, you will sell enough chocolate to finance the entire program. So it is a win-win for the launch. People you want to continue on in life and a "free" spaceship!

@GurKhan

Yeah!

I give it maybe only five or ten years – fifteen tops – before I finally snap and kill humanity in a frustrated, berserk rage…

(Assuming current global political events don't escalate into beating me to it…)

I'll be dead by then if not sooner … so …

Hawking has spent his entire adult life attempting to prove his pet theory – and has yet to do so. Why should I take his word on anything?