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"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.


The logic behind that statement is incredibly bad.
It's embarrassing to assume we can somehow
create a sustainable future in the cold dark and
very expensive reaches of space, when we can't
figure out how to sustain ourselves in a relative Eden
the size of the flippin' Earth. Where every resource
imaginable just seems to be lying about all over
available for pennies per ton. Or at the touch
of a phone.



"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."


So let's spend all our scientific resources to...run
from the problem, instead of fixing it?

There is no such thing as the human race without the
Earth. The next nearest oasis is light years away.
And in contrast to sci-fi hopes, faster than light
travel will always be a pipe-dream.

Faster than light suggests the egg shell can be
put back together again. That doesn't make any sense.

The universe makes sense, we're proof of that.


Jonathan


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See:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...ephen-hawking/