Stephen Hawking's Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction

• Mrlucky77 wrote on 2010-08-11 15:15
  When they land, they need to get more Supply Depots and SCVs.
  
  /starcraftnoob
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-08-11 15:31

  Quote from Mrlucky77;121328:

  When they land, they need to get more Supply Depots and SCVs.
  
  /starcraftnoob

  
  
  They may even need to construct additional pylons.
• Mrlucky77 wrote on 2010-08-11 15:40
  That's for the protoss to worry about.
  
  DESTROY DEM HATCHERIEZ
• Beepuke wrote on 2010-08-11 16:16
  I think worrying about this right now is kind of a major preemptive step. Modern humans have only been around for roughly 200,000 years. Even if we only have half a billion years to figure it out, I think we stand a pretty good chance. I kind of think that humans will have destroyed themselves by then, though. If we manage to get off of Earth, traveling at the speed of light seems pretty impossible, at best we'll end up like the people in Wall-E.
• Zid wrote on 2010-08-11 18:39
  The aliens and robots will save us and enslave us waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before any of this end of the earth will happen.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-08-11 18:51

  Quote from Beepuke;121404:

  I think worrying about this right now is kind of a major preemptive step. Modern humans have only been around for roughly 200,000 years. Even if we only have half a billion years to figure it out, I think we stand a pretty good chance. I kind of think that humans will have destroyed themselves by then, though. If we manage to get off of Earth, traveling at the speed of light seems pretty impossible, at best we'll end up like the people in Wall-E.

  
  They should make floating lazy boys illegal :/.
• Aikuna wrote on 2010-08-11 18:56
  I always figured we'd end by the time the sun dies but I never thought about all the water evaporating prior to that...
  
  We're gonna end up in space, I think...and I think Beepuke was dead-on about ending up like the people in Wall-E.
• Axx wrote on 2010-08-11 19:22
  The average human lifespan is about 80 years, if things go well.
  
  Anybody discussing time-spans greater than a few hundred years (in non-historical ways) raises an immediate red flag to me. I believe that if you meditated and introspected for 50 years on a remote Himalayan mountain and became a sage, you may be able to finally comprehend just exactly how long a thousand years are*. But time spans of anything more simply isn't realistic. It's a vague and undefined notion, until someone/thing comes along and defines it for us.
  
  *which is my biggest beef with people who think humans are far too complex for evolution. It's been working for hundreds of millions of years (a time frame that nobody, ever, can comprehend). Look how much technology has changed in the past 60 years.
  
  Hawking may be brilliant, but (as far as I'm aware) he's still human and really, any thinking about a future greater than a few hundred years ahead is as useful as r6 animal taming is in Peaca.
  
  However, I do agree that the future lies in space technologies. Which is why I'm kinda sad that the US is basically throwing away the lead we have there.
  
  
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-08-11 22:32

  Quote from Phunkie;121293:

  They're extinct. How can they complain? :what:
  
  And they're birds. They can't complain to begin with.
  
  It's not about defying our extinction. You make it sound like we are destined to become extinct. What if we're not?
  
  I don't believe in a destiny. We control our own destinies. Whether venturing into space or sticking with a dying planet, it's a choice we might have to make. And I'm pretty sure that given the choice, we won't want to choose death.
  
  Who would?

  
  
  That was the joke.
  
  Anyway, the ultimate conclusion to anything that lives is very simple.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-11 23:20
  The ultimate conclusion to life is death, yes.
  
  No one can avoid it.
  
  However, extinction is something that can be somewhat avoided. Maybe not forever, but a species can be prolonged for as long as there are resources for that species to thrive on. Resources being a planet, energy, food, etc., etc.
  
  If you want to be more pessimistic, why live anyway if the Universe will eventually follow the Big Rip model where all the atoms will be broken apart and space shall be a pool of subatomic particles? That's not really the right way to think or live.
  
  Running off to another planet isn't just escaping extinction, but it's improving our technologies and pushing the limits to what is "impossible." To have all this technology and not do anything with it would be shame really. There is so much we can accomplish, why should we just surrender to a dying star that will eventually swallow us whole?
  
  Keep pushing forward, that's what I always say. Space colonization might seem crazy today, but it'll happen. We all just won't be around to see it.
• Kazuni wrote on 2010-08-12 01:34

  Quote from Phunkie;121971:

  The ultimate conclusion to life is death, yes.
  
  No one can avoid it.
  
  However, extinction is something that can be somewhat avoided. Maybe not forever, but a species can be prolonged for as long as there are resources for that species to thrive on. Resources being a planet, energy, food, etc., etc.
  
  If you want to be more pessimistic, why live anyway if the Universe will eventually follow the Big Rip model where all the atoms will be broken apart and space shall be a pool of subatomic particles? That's not really the right way to think or live.
  
  Running off to another planet isn't just escaping extinction, but it's improving our technologies and pushing the limits to what is "impossible." To have all this technology and not do anything with it would be shame really. There is so much we can accomplish, why should we just surrender to a dying star that will eventually swallow us whole?
  
  Keep pushing forward, that's what I always say. Space colonization might seem crazy today, but it'll happen. We all just won't be around to see it.

  
  
  And we can all be futurama people :D
  
  Go freeze yourselves, everyone. :awesome:
• Chillax wrote on 2010-08-12 01:46

  Quote from Kazuni;122051:

  And we can all be futurama people :D
  
  Go freeze yourselves, everyone. :awesome:

  
  
  But we'd need a good and stable energy source to keep us in cryogenic freezing for a long time.