Comments on: Stephen Hawking’s Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:51:52 +0000

It seems that Stephen Hawking has seen sci-fi movie “PROXIMA” and he made note: http://www.carlosatanes.com/stephen_hawking_science_fiction.html

By: Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:05:46 +0000

In my humble opinion, Mr. Hawking is proposing something dangerous here.

The last 50 years have shown that manned spaceflight is possible, but it is extremely expensive, uses huge amounts of raw materials and energy, and is overwhelming dangerous. And most astronauts didn’t get father than low earth orbit.

Space is just too huge, and the human body isn’t suitable at all to its hostile environment. I’m all for unmanned space exploration, but manned spaceflight is nonsense. The energy alone needed to put a crew to Alpha Centauri is beyond all imagination.

This proposal is dangerous because it gives a false illusion of “We have a backdoor. If all goes wrong, we can escape to other planets”, and it lures us into losing sight of what is most important: Save our planet.

By: KayNer

KayNer — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:57:45 +0000

Stephen Hawking is citing from Issac Asimov’s Foundation series

By: roz

roz — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:56:25 +0000

i dont think it looks any less bleak off-earth…

By: Radu C

Radu C — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:30:22 +0000

But no! Why do you blame people? We all know it’s God’s will, and humans don’t have any choice in what they think, choose or do! It’s a weird definition of “free will”, I know What’s that? It’s not God, but Satan? My bad, sorry.

By: Paul Sykes

Paul Sykes — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:31:54 +0000

Wise words indeed. It’s just a shame that man is doomed. Humanities complete selfishness and obsession with avarice will guarantee it’s own demise.

Oh well. Time for a pint.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:58:58 +0000

I blimmin knew that the $20 I invested in buying that star was going to come good! In your face sceptics! Look who’s the smart one now then, stood there on your ‘soon to be dead’ little planet. Ha! Not looking so clever now then are we? “You’ve been conned” they told me. “It’s just a worthless piece of paper” they cried. Well let’s just see how far your Oyster Card gets you when the day of reckoning dawns. Not very bloody far, I can tell you! And when the luminous ball of plasma that is star CastorOrionCentauriKappa13 finally cools down enough, and I’m sat aboard my nitrous oxide powered space craft I think we both know who’ll be laughing then!

By: Trevor Doull

Trevor Doull — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:56:41 +0000

Common sense really, but humans are not too great at planning any further ahead than their own lifetimes. If you could find a way to stop the ageing process then we would start planning for the distant future.

By: _NathanBaxter_

_NathanBaxter_ — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:46:25 +0000

Been repeating this common science fiction warning to my children & anyone who’d listen for years. Glad someone with a bit more clout is doing it now.