Hawking: We must colonize Space...or Die.

[Colonâ„¢]

Type I beta. Unfortunately, going gold takes as much time as does finishing Duke Nukem Forever.

[The diplomat]

I want humans to colonize other planets. But we need to realize that space colonization only protects us from specific threats like an asteroid collision. It won't protect us from ourselves. Humans will take our fears, greed, jealousies with us to the stars. Competition for resources, or simple grab for power could spark wars on the new planets that we colonize. And we could take viruses with us, or encounter new viruses on the planets that we colonize. And, we could screw up the new planet's environment like we are doing with Earth. There are plenty of threats to human survival in space.

Space colonization does not guarantee human survival by any means.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Uh... nothing makes me think that. I consider it a strong possibility that humans today won't be able to breed with humans a million years from now. What's your point?

You are like, oh mutants. I am saying that there will be 'mutants' regardless so why talk about them?

JM

[Jon Miller]

Yes, if a disaster caused problems for humans on the surface of earth humanity could split to those who are spacefarers and those who go under the earth (if the earth is messed up for a long enough time).

Jon Miller

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
You are like, oh mutants. I am saying that there will be 'mutants' regardless so why talk about them?

JM

Perhaps it will happen faster if there is a worldwide disaster. Gets into definitions of humanity and such.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Yes, if a disaster caused problems for humans on the surface of earth humanity could split to those who are spacefarers and those who go under the earth (if the earth is messed up for a long enough time).

Jon Miller

Abh and Morlocks

[Lancer]

I'm glad Stephen Hawking agrees with me on this. We must spread agross the galaxy like a virus moving through a virgin.

[WotanAnubis]

Sounds to me like Mr. Hawking has been playing a bit too much Alpha Centauri recently.

Of course, I'm of the opinion we should spread out into space anyway, threat of viruses or no.

[Lancer]

Your sig is too bizarre. What the heck does it mean?

[WotanAnubis]

Originally posted by Lancer
Your sig is too bizarre. What the heck does it mean?

Are we talking about my sig?

If so, read El Goonish Shive and be enlightened! Or possibly disturbed.

[Lancer]

Can you give me the readers digest version?

[RGBVideo]

What the hell, I'm feeling pessimistic today...

Humans will eventually destroy earth ecologically because of their short-sightedness which stems from their stupidity ("their" because I'll be gone then). Why making such a negative prediction, haven't humans adapted well enough in the past to the changes in their environment?

Answer: the fact that stupider people are causing overpopulation and are behind virtually all of the population growth from a global perspective is proof that the human race is rapidly turning less and less intelligent.

[Lancer]

VJ, you're extrapolating the western world situation you know onto the eastern one you don't.

[Sava]

Hawking is correct. While you ***** sit here and squabble about how humanity might die, you are ignoring the big picture.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Mr. Hawking said.

The Earth is not a permanent home. The longer we sit around on our asses not finding a way to go out into space, the more likely it is something bad could happen.

Priority one should be survival. Not making money, not fighting over land or ideology or religion... but survival. Once humanity realizes this, we will finally get our sh1t together and work together. But until then, most of humanity is just a bunch of highly evolved, intelligent (and I use that term loosely) apes.

[RGBVideo]

VJ, you're extrapolating the western world situation you know onto the eastern one you don't.

no

(1) take a world map, look up "Helsinki". Is it in the eastern or western hemisphere?

(2) I used the phrase "from global perspective" precisely so ignorant Americans wouldn't only think of the demographic trends in their country. It's the third world inhabitants who are breeding like bunnies in the middle of deserts (Sudan is a good example, google to see the terrain of Darfur). And we're cheerfully providing them health care, food (with foreign aid projects) and more lebensraum (with one-sided freedom to immigrate) so they'd breed even more, all the while moralizing to our own intellectual elites how sexual reproduction is bad and irresponsible for the future of the planet (remember the attitude of chegits towards babies?).