Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again

On 8/11/2010 1:22 PM, David Spain wrote:


Let's face it, in a million years we'll have as much in common with our
descendants (if any) that we have with our million year old ancestors....

Let's have a look at our evolutionary future a million years down the
line, courtesy of H.G. Wells:
http://davidszondy.com/future/man/man_million.htm
These balloon-headed critters later evolved into the Martians from his
"War Of The Worlds".
Although humanity would not change anywhere near that much via natural
genetic mutation in only one million years, the disturbing thing is that
given the extremely fast rate of advance in genetic research nowadays,
you could probably create something like that in the not too distant
future...say what? One hundred years?

Pat