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British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned repeatedly that Earth could well be doomed, but his latest warning gives us no more than 583 years before we get burned on Earth.
During a video clip aired at the Tencent WE Summit on Sunday, the 75-year-old scientist said that humanity would have to deal with exponential growth in the centuries ahead. He noted that the world’s population has been doubling every 40 years.
“This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium,” Hawking, who has been coping with neurodegenerative disease for decades, said in his computer-synthesized voice. “By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.
“This is untenable,” Hawking said as a planet-sized ball of fire blazed on the screen.
Hawking suggested that humanity's best chance for survival lay in the stars, and that finding other inhabitable planets may be our only hope.
Personally I am all for space exploration and have believed for decades that it is our destiny to someday leave this planet and explore the cosmos.
However 583 years is actually cutting it a little close.
If you consider the fact that we have yet to understand how to travel any great distance from this planet and survive, while adding to that the fact we have yet to identify a planet that we know for certain can sustain life, then just for fun let's remember that also need to be able to move not a handful, but potentially millions of people, and it's starting to feel a little doomy around here.
Of course we could all just stop having so many damn babies, quickly move to renewable energy resources, and start working together to repair this planet that we have all treated like our own personal landfill for thousands of years.
Nope, our best hope is to get the hell out of Dodge before the planet burns to a crisp.
I don’t think it’ll take that long.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if they don't keep trumps little fingers away from the nuclear button.
DeleteI've done my part by not breeding on purpose.
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DeleteSky Fairy'll get you for that.
Maybe we could start by sending Trump, Scott Pruit, et al. back to whatever planet they came from.
ReplyDeleteGeez, 5:05, do you WANT to trigger an interplanetary war? They'd raise such a stink!
DeleteWhy do we focus so much on uncontrollable things? Life was wiped out before. Isn’t it common sense it will happen again?
ReplyDeleteThis is why we should live as if tomorrow doesn’t exist. And judgment doesn’t either. Do whatever the fuck you want.
But the children...
DeleteIn other words 5:18, live like a republican.
DeleteYeah, but the dinosaurs didn’t do it to themselves.
DeleteIt’s humans that did the rest. The passenger pigeon, California grizzly, Tasmanian tiger, we did all of those. Killed them off. Now we’re killing off species as byproducts of the climate change we’re causing. It’s only a matter of time before we kill ourselves off. Once people start dying, then there might be an effort to reverse things, but by that time it will be way too late. In the end it will be a good thing for the actual planet. The earth itself will eventually heal itself. Any life that may have adapted and survived will flourish without the interference of mankind. Probably mostly insects.
i think it's too late.the Vulcans aren't coming. we have doomed our selves. more people and more people and we can't feed what we have. China's one child law isn't a bad idea, but it work her. those people had 20 children. she's a fucking baby machine and religion justify's it. oh, God will feed everyone! where is the loaves and fishes, people?
DeleteYou know before the whiteman came to our area, we were at peace and harmony with our environment. Then they came with their indoctrination which basically led to consumerism, and viola. Now we along with everyone are insatiable. Need, need, want, want.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad with such a prediction. Looking at how we are still consuming like flies on shit, I see that prediction as happening. Ah, well. I guess, if we weren't bright enough as a species to perpetuate ourselves it's que sera.
Don't know what your "area" is but if we are talking about North America, was that before or after you wiped out the megafauna? No peoples are superior to any others when it comes to population control or use of resources. We all consume it like sailors on shore leave.
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11:08. Don't take it too hard. Not blaming the whiteman. He's the messenger only. The message is not good. Consume. Yea, our people may have left a carbon footprint. I am not an archeologist but yes, as humans we are going to imprint on this planet. The thing is, do we do it mindlessly, or responsibly? Greed and need. Hard to balance.
Deleteyes, the first people here had a hand in wiping out the megafauna. it was doomed anyway. the changes in climate that were coming would have slowly killed it off. remember the dinosaurs? when they died off the little mammals took over. when we die the roaches will take over. in evolution, big is risky-small more likely to survive. the Native Americans learned to live with nature. Europeans never did.
DeleteIt will either be like Star Trek or Elisium. Probably more like Elisium.
ReplyDeleteRemember when Sarah Palin in her infinite studding confused Stephen Hawking with Richard Dawkins? Unfortunately, I never read Hawking's name without thinking of her immense stupidity and ungraciousness.
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At least she didn't say, "Richard Dawson? Best Family Feud host EVAH." She IS that stupid.
Delete"Pass me a baby. Not the retarded one."
DeleteHmmm. I was sure I typed "stupidity"; Spellcheck obviously thought otherwise.
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leave the boy out of it. trash the rest all you want, but he's just a kid.Hmmm.
DeleteHumans are supposed to be intelligent. But they breed like rabbits even without the resources to care for the result. We have found out how moronic the species is with the result of the election 1 year ago.
ReplyDeleteI expect that humans will die out long before the planet goes up in flames. NO chance of moving off planet in less than 1000 years. EARTH will survive the parasitic attack of humans.
Even the birds didn’t breed during the last drought. But humans are stupid enough to breed even when there is nothing to sustain their offspring.
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I for one hope that we will not 'make it' to any other planet.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the damage we would inflict on any Alien planets with the mindset we have? Star Trek was a well-intentioned TV series, but it did not take into account that humanity obviously has no inclination as to 'do no harm' to Alien life!
Oh, great universe, do not let the human species have another planet to ruin.
ReplyDeleteHere's the ticket. Let's build a fleet of ships (call them Arks). The first one should contain all the account executives, hairdressers and telephone sanitizers. The rest of us will follow.... shortly...
ReplyDeletethis is our shit, and we clean it up and not go some place else to trash. this is my belief why we have not yet met aliens. we are the trailer trash of the galaxy- we shit were we live. who wants to be part of that?
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