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Stephen Hawking says we have 1,000 years left. . . .
on this blue ball called earth. .
http://nypost.com/2016/11/16/stephen-hawking-believes-we-have-maybe-1000-years-left/
Stephen Hawking believes Earth’s days are numbered.
“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Hawking said Tuesday during a talk at Britain’s Oxford University Union.
This isn’t the first time the theoretical physicist has insisted that humans figure out where our species is going to live next.
In January, during a lecture series at London’s Royal Institution, Hawking warned that developments in technology will lead to global cataclysm. He listed “nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses” as looming threats to our survival.
And he’s previously admitted his ambivalence toward artificial intelligence, saying it will be either “the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity.”
Hawking says our only solution is to find another planet to inhabit — an idea that NASA has been working on since 2009.
The 74-year-old professor ended his speech by encouraging university students to “stay curious” and reminding them to “look up to the stars and not down at your feet.”
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