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Human race is doomed if we do not colonise the Moon and Mars, says Stephen Hawking.

The human race must start leaving Earth within 30 years to avoid being wiped out by over-population and climate change, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
"I am convinced that humans need to leave earth. The Earth is becoming too small for u
s, our physical resources are being drained at an alarming rate."
"We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change, rising temperatures, the reducing of polar ice caps , deforestation and decimation of animal species.”
"When we have reached similar crisis in or history there has usually been somewhere else to colonise. Columbus did it in 1492 when he discovered the new world. But now there is no new world. No Eutopia around the corner. We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/20

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28-06-2017, 12:20 PM
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By then I will be over 80 so I dont care...

I think the more probable outcome will be a huge war that will kill off a lot of human and everyone will be too busy re-building and struggling to survive to worry about going off and ruining another planet.
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28-06-2017, 12:42 PM
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Looks like Moonbase Alpha from Space 1999
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28-06-2017, 12:53 PM
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Well I'm not going
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28-06-2017, 12:57 PM
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Under the sea? Lots of room there and decent food supply.
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28-06-2017, 02:02 PM
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I don't think living on the Moon or Mars would be a particularly enjoyable experience.
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Originally Posted by Vega ->
The human race must start leaving Earth within 30 years to avoid being wiped out by over-population and climate change, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
This is a silly statement imo. He is presenting just one solution and a rather crazy one. It's like saying "we must stop driving cars because too many drivers hit the steering wheel in a crash and die" instead of saying "how about this invention called a seat belt?".

There are numerous other possibilities and many have been in place for some years now.

Problem: Population Growth Rate / Over population

Solution(s):
- Have less children (reduce growth rate)
- Remove some of the existing population (De populate)
- Reduce life span

Practical Applications:
- Increase sterility through chemicals and contamination
- Aggressively encourage/promote gay/lesbian relationships
- Give people cancer and other terminal conditions
- Allow bad food and bad food ingredients to be prevalent (e.g. sugar, salt etc)
- Destroy people's immune systems via vaccinations
(e.g. campaign of fear used to promote the useless flu vaccine)
- Use media to make good foods a taboo and engage in campaigns of fear to stop people eating healthy food
(e.g. don't eat raw eggs, don't drink raw milk, don't eat apricot kernels, stay out of the sun's rays, wholegrains make you fat and bloated etc etc)

There is plenty of land free on planet earth. People will simply spread out further whilst all the above continue to limit the population size.
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28-06-2017, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Vega ->
Human race is doomed if we do not colonise the Moon and Mars, says Stephen Hawking.

The human race must start leaving Earth within 30 years to avoid being wiped out by over-population and climate change, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
There is, of course, another alternative.

We could stop this out-of-control breeding. It is quite simple. China did it successfully.
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28-06-2017, 03:06 PM
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Or....we could always age disgracefully and enjoy the limited time we have left?

Anyone fancy a pint?
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Aye,,,just enjoy Yourselves,it's later than You think...make Mine a cocktail...'three steps to heaven' please.
 
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