Stephen Hawking: Human Race Should GTFO or Die

[Jotaru]

Which is why I ponder when people think any other sentient alien life trying to 'contact' us is benevolent and peaceful and would never do that sort of thing

[Mizango]

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Ahhh, thar she is.

[Conrad]

Interplanetary travel is virtually impossible by any practical standards, isn't it? Building a craft that is large enough to hold all of the equipment necessary to function, plus keep the humans inside comfortable and hold all of their belongings and sustenance, and then being able to achieve speeds that can traverse space in a reasonable amount of time without murdering everyone inside...how will it ever be possible to move even outside of our own solar system?

[Antithesis]

Which is why I ponder when people think any other sentient alien life trying to 'contact' us is benevolent and peaceful and would never do that sort of thing

How dare you. To even think for one second that other, sentient life exist in this galaxy besides the good god-loving people of this world goes against everything Jesus and the bible stand for.

[Acturus]

and not to sound overly cynical, but I can tell you EXACTLY how human colonization of an alien world would happen:

1) We plop down uninvited and rape the living shit out of any specials/civilization with less money/technology than us
2) We proceed to fill up this new planet with shitloads of beer cans and potato chip wrappers while we suck its resources dry
3) We spend several decades complaining about how we need a third planet to hold our massive badunkadunks
4) Repeat

I wonder if we can hire the Silver Surfer to herald for us.

[Boyiee]

Interplanetary travel is virtually impossible by any practical standards, isn't it? Building a craft that is large enough to hold all of the equipment necessary to function, plus keep the humans inside comfortable and hold all of their belongings and sustenance, and then being able to achieve speeds that can traverse space in a reasonable amount of time without murdering everyone inside...how will it ever be possible to move even outside of our own solar system?

HOW DARE YOU DOUBT HIS MATHEMATICAL BRAIN

[Max™]

This just in: old guy discovers electricity, onlookers are shocked, more at 11.

[Tyrath]

Sure time travel is possible if we could build ships that move faster than the speed of light. Too bad that's impossible.

[Mizango]

Interplanetary travel is virtually impossible by any practical standards, isn't it?

No, we've been to the moon. Also, define "practical", because it can certainly be done.

Building a craft that is large enough to hold all of the equipment necessary to function, plus keep the humans inside comfortable and hold all of their belongings and sustenance

Again, think of the ISS. Large, holds a majority of things that we need to function and is comfortable. Belongings and things a person deem important is subjective. The beauty of it is not everyone will go The loonies can stay here and wait on the rapture that will never happen. We will be here two thousand years from now, saying "one day".

how will it ever be possible to move even outside of our own solar system?

Working on it. We've learned a shit ton just from watching Voyager 1 and 2 not only traverse, but leave our cozy little nook, in out cozy little mote of dust.

[Mizango]

This just in: old guy discovers electricity, onlookers are shocked, more at 11.

!!!

Sure time travel is possible if we could build ships that move faster than the speed of light. Too bad that's impossible.

Gotta belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve.

[Diamicles]

Interplanetary travel is virtually impossible by any practical standards, isn't it? Building a craft that is large enough to hold all of the equipment necessary to function, plus keep the humans inside comfortable and hold all of their belongings and sustenance, and then being able to achieve speeds that can traverse space in a reasonable amount of time without murdering everyone inside...how will it ever be possible to move even outside of our own solar system?

lets just make the biggest rocket engine ever and strap it to the earth, man

[Acturus]

Working on it. We've learned a shit ton just from watching Voyager 1 and 2 not only traverse, but leave our cozy little nook, in out cozy little mote of dust.

Oh man, wait until you watch Voyager's last few episodes. They actually made it back home!

[Mizango]

Oh man, wait until you watch Voyager's last few episodes. They actually made it back home!

lol touche.

[Max™]

Wondered how long it would take someone to catch that terrible, terrible, terribad pun.

We don't need to go to another planet, a planet is a stupid way to use resources.

How many fleets of ships could we build from the Earth, do you think?

If we were going to set up a permanent place to live, a dyson ring/sphere makes more sense than a fucking colony on another dirtball, by Thor's hammer!

It isn't new what he's saying, there are loonies (including me!) who have been babbling about colonizing the solar system, and most of us agree we need to mine the asteroid belt first, as it should return a profit to motivate the rest of us.

http://ssi.org/reading/papers/space-...itute-roadmap/

A Space Roadmap: Mine the Sky, Defend the Earth, Settle the Universe
an article by SSI Director Dr. Lee Valentine.

Abstract: Preservation and prosperity of humanity on the Earth and human settlement of circumsolar space is the goal, we must concentrate on a commercial path to get there. NASA must enable new markets, not compete in them. Nonterrestrial materials are the key to opening the space frontier and should be the focus of new NASA initiatives. NEO mining serves two purposes, defense and material supply. Scientific missions must be undertaken to assay resources and plan NEO diversion. Use the advantages of space: manufacture and assemble in space.

Space solar power is a trillion dollar market and should be fully explored, and NASA is crucial to this effort, platinum group metals will eventually be important. Obtaining economic benefits from commercial space including tourism and space solar power and platinum group metals as well as traditional markets should be the major thrust of our space enterprise.

Man to Mars is a diversion we can’t afford. Human settlement of the space frontier is an end in itself but will follow naturally large-scale extraction of nonterrestrial resources and construction of space solar power stations, either on the moon or in orbit. Space tourism is a real market and the necessary evolution from small stations like Mir and ISS to real space hotels will necessitate the incorporation of fully closed life-support systems. These could be considered the first space colonies. The likelihood is that space tourism will greatly drive down the cost of space access over the next two decades. Space tourism may even provide a relatively near term market for lunar or asteroidal water.

Btw, you're thinking too small with the "put a rocket on the Earth" idea... destroy a couple planets, use the materials to make a sail, put it on one side of the sun, the mass of the sail would keep it in orbit, magnetic controls to keep it in position, then the energy from the sun pushing on the sail would drag the whole solar system along with it!

[Tyrath]

Gotta belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve.

No I don't lol. I feel like sci fi movies/shows tend to inflate people's ideas of how advanced our technologies and resources really are. I'm very skeptical of any stuff like this.

[Max™]

No I don't lol. I feel like sci fi movies/shows tend to inflate people's ideas of how advanced our technologies and resources really are. I'm very skeptical of any stuff like this.

I feel like NASA tends to inflate people's ideas of how advanced the technologies and resources needed to colonize space really are. They're very unhelpful on any stuff like that.




It's true though, a government agency will never be able to help people leave the jurisdiction of it's own government permanently. Until the USA can claim space as it's own, NASA will never help you get your ass up there.

China, on the other hand, may actually try to claim portions of space as it's own, and in doing so could provide itself with motivation to colonize space.

[Mizango]

No I don't lol. I feel like sci fi movies/shows tend to inflate people's ideas of how advanced our technologies and resources really are. I'm very skeptical of any stuff like this.

It was a joke Besides, Im not a sci/fi fan, I actually do this and plan to on an ever grander scale when im done with grad school. Being skeptical is fine, but just know that dismissing everything you see and hear is also equally reckless.

[BerenTebogo]

Ah, news agencies reporting on science, how you never let me down with inaccuracies.

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Edit: Fuck! Beaten.

Edit2 to add something to the thread: In the minds of the general public Hawking is the only physicist on the planet. If he says something that can be quoted out of context and used to fuel a media frenzy then it must be true!

[Effluo]

I think Hawking is getting info from our soon to be invaders. They have injected him with some life sustaining organism and are using him to get us to leave the planet so they can move in. If we don't move, they destroy us alla Mars Attacks.

[zoobernut]

No I don't lol. I feel like sci fi movies/shows tend to inflate people's ideas of how advanced our technologies and resources really are. I'm very skeptical of any stuff like this.

People said the exact same thing when they originally read 20,000 leagues under the sea, when nuclear powered submarines were described.

Just to put it into perspective.