On Aug 10, 5:24*pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 11/08/2010 2:26 AM, wrote:



"It's time to abandon Earth, warned the world's most
famous theoretical physicist.

In an interview with website Big Think, Stephen
Hawking warned that the long-term future of the
planet is in outer space.

"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on
planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone
the next thousand, or million. The human race
shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on
one planet," he said."

See:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...-face-extincti...

It doesn't really matter if the human race becomes extinct - after all,
who would be there to care?

The real problem is that in the process there likely be considerable
suffering. But it's not clear that migrating into space would avoid that
- it's not as if we can contemplate sending a significant proportion of
the world's population into space to save them from whatever disaster
might otherwise befall them.

Sylvia.

True. The way we're literally burning through and otherwise consuming
resources that are not unlimited or robust enough to be considered
truly renewable, added to the certain over-population and/or the
multiple global wars that are almost certain to happen, we'll be lucky
to get ourselves past the next couple thousand years unless something
worse happens between now and then.

~ BG