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Forum: Internet Links Topic: Hawking warns about humans started by: Leisher Posted by Leisher on Jan. 19 2016,12:06
< Says our scientists need to use caution going forward. >He's simply implying that they're starting to toy with dangerous shit, and until we have some humans living elsewhere we need to play it safe. Posted by Malcolm on Jan. 19 2016,12:10
Bah, we've been playing with dangerous shit since fire, electricity, and atomic theory.QUOTE “We will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period,” Hawking said. And how the fuck does he know for sure? Posted by TPRJones on Jan. 19 2016,14:00
Sad to see such a fine mind slipping into senility.
Posted by GORDON on Jan. 19 2016,14:03
I *would* prefer to see some experimentation done in some other gravity well than Earth's, to be honest. I've read sci-fi.Quantum singularities, and such. Posted by TPRJones on Jan. 19 2016,14:16
Oh, sure, I'm all for getting off this death-trap and colonizing some other death-traps before we accidentally go extinct. But it ain't going to be from some "we tried to play god" luddite nightmare fantasy, it's going to be the asteroid we didn't see coming.
Posted by Malcolm on Jan. 19 2016,14:29
It's fantastically expensive to blast things past gravitational pull. We ain't going anywhere outside Mars until that shit gets worked out. Even Mars is way outside the zone of possibility at this second.QUOTE Hawking said most of the threats humans now face come from advances in science and technology, such as nuclear weapons and genetically engineered viruses. Only a real threat if a big enough conflict erupts and someone effectively weaponizes it. Fission didn't mean dick until someone minimized it into a bomb-sized package and stuck a detonator on it. The end of civilization isn't going to come about by some lab accident. It'll be, like always, the byproduct of a well-meaning psycho. When (because it's not a question of "if") it happens, it'll be the worst setback since the Dark Ages in Europe. Posted by Malcolm on Jan. 20 2016,10:30
< Think tank warns about Hawking and Musk >.
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