Stephen Hawking agrees with me
By stealthy
@stealthy (8181)
United States
April 11, 2013 5:41pm CST
I have posted or responded here a few times that I think that for mankind to survive, we must go into space. The space effort has been woefully neglected ever since going to the moon. Now famous scientist Stephen Hawking has said very much of the same thing. Here is a link to it that talks about it and about his having ALS(he has had this terrible disease for 50 years which demonstrates the power of his mind since few with the disease live more than 10 years):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/stephen-hawking-space-exploration-humanity_n_3061329.html?ncid=webmail3
He puts a time of 1000 years for the end of mankind if we don't go into space.
5 responses
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
12 Apr 13
I think man's world and empires will crash and collapse long before a thousand years. Dissolution has been escalating for some time now. We are headed back to embracing our ancient barbarism, throwing off the great strides of the foundation of civilization, and we are headed toward global governing power in few hands, throwing out checks upon governing power, which some nations have had and it took so long to develop..
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
12 Apr 13
Personally, I think we need to get out of the solar system, but considering that we've only had access to the AIR for about a century and a half (hot air balloons) and have been in mostly near space for some what over a half a century, it might actually be possible to consider being into interstellar space in 1000 years.
I mean, consider how far transportation has come since 1800!
While you and I probably won't see humans going to Mars, or colonizing the Moon, it may well be that before in a few centuries we could be, if faster than light is actually impossible, at least looking at generation arks.
Chances of anyone of my near genetic linage being on one are probably nearly nil, considering that the ONLY member of the next generation on either sides of my parent's family has a LOT of allergies herself. Not a real promising genetic specimen and she hasn't started reproducing yet either!
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Apr 13
I don't kn ow about the timeframe, but I'm with Hawking...
