Stephen Hawking Asks: Can the Human Race Survive?

Thanks for sharing that. It's pretty much what we already knew but I think it is our nature to need to be reminded of things we might otherwise prefer to ignore. Perhaps if we are reminded often enough and loudly enough it will help to precipitate the needed changes sooner than later.

Totally awsome. I feel really fortunate to be be alive to witness this event. I say light off the nukes now and get it over with. Why wait? I would really hate to miss the fireworks. I'm sure I'll be one that is left to burn but I always wanted to go out with a bang and lots of company. That's why I only fly on Big Jets.

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I have no doubt that the human race will still be around in 100 years. Were there to be a major asteroid strike, nuclear war, continued polution, massive plagues, etc., I am confident that some of the nearly 6 billion people on Earth would survive. A better question is what level of civilization would remain? I have no answer to that question.

Hawking does provide a very good collection of cautionary predictions. Will they come true? Will humankind find ways to mitigate them if they do (or before they do)?

I hope your right. Personally, I figure we will or we won't, only time will tell and I accept that. Telling a human being not to invent or develope technology, which is where many of these threats are coming from, is like telling a fish not to swim. It's what we are made to do. If we become an evolutionary dead end, it's no more our fault than it was the dinosaur's fault when they died off. It was technology that made us the dominant species to begin with. Thinking that we could just stop once we get to a certain point is a joke. Curiousity is a chemically induced drive just like hunger or thirst.

No human kind wont find ways to mitigate them because they're too worried about NUKES AND WEAPONS AND MISSILES and whatnot. =_=

So I get that I'm going to die in a terrible fire preceded by pestilence, famine, and war and I have to admit that I'm not looking forward to the brimstone or the torments I face in the next life, still, I'm worried for you. What will you rant about after the rapture?

Me wonders if the references to the world pershing by fire might actually mean by our own hand as a result of our insatiable thirst for combustable fuels. Such that the earth becomes uninhabitable. In other words to perish by fire - indirectly. That seems doable given the trends of the last 150 years or so, athough it may take a millenium or two.

What if for your children's and your grand children's sake you were, even in some small way, wrong? Is it consistent with "Love thy brother as thyself." to simply be complacent in the belief that god's plan is predestined and requires no effort on your part other than faith? If you love your children it would seem you would take heed of all warnings of impending peril and make an effort on all fronts to make the best possible world for future generations. Is it you faith that would have you throw your hands up and say god is in control and all I have to do is wait for the prize that I've been promised, or is it just denial that you can make a difference by attempting to conserve the resources of this small oasis we share, or lazyness?

I believe humanity is just a branch of grand evolution tree from a seed that God created. We are not neccessarily an ultimate answer to that evolution. I believe that in evolution process, the co-operative and resourceful species are more likely to survive. Visualize and compare human, tree and cancer relationship to earth, earth and body. Then you will see the unswer about our future.