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http://www.sciencealert.com/humanity-only-has-around-1-000-years-left-on-earth-stephen-hawking-predicts
The Boffin king says mankind is doomed within a thousand yrs, if i say it I'm wakadoodle. He says it and cheers erupt.
I say it's more like a 100 years top limit. Someone in some strange lab behind the bamboo or iron curtain or in a lab in a polytechnic will invent a germ that will wipe out all vegetation. hold on, they did that twenty yrs ago and stored it for the future. oops. GMO blunder.
The Boffin king says mankind is doomed within a thousand yrs, if i say it I'm wakadoodle. He says it and cheers erupt.
I say it's more like a 100 years top limit. Someone in some strange lab behind the bamboo or iron curtain or in a lab in a polytechnic will invent a germ that will wipe out all vegetation. hold on, they did that twenty yrs ago and stored it for the future. oops. GMO blunder.
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Yes Zorro but how often do you think something or say something
then (a celeb/famous) person says something and hey presto they are a soothsayer of amazing ability. |
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Your wakadoodle because you back up your evidence by carefully choosing your copy and paste's.
At least hawking try's to back up his evidence with well researched science. Whether he's right or wrong is another matter but there are many things that can wipe out our species. This is a dangerous time for humanity, population is the biggest threat imo yet most people blame the causes that overpopulation brings like Greenhouse gasses. |
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Ovalman i have years ago (must be loads before me)said population needs to be reduced
as this is a major problem.But heyho i'm a nobody so it goes unheaded. |
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Did read somewhere that as people get more intelligent they have fewer children
And judging by what comes through my local station we all thick round here.  |
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The population question was addressed 200 years ago by Malthus who predicted an upper limit of 9 billion humans. We are nearly there.
http://cgge.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/CF_PopNatRes_Jan10/CF_PopNatRes_Jan108.html |
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You see i'm only 200 years behind a bit like ATR
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At least you are right imo as I'm in agreement with Malthus. Time will tell but Zorro's horsemen are waiting in the wings with Death and Famine putting in occasional cameo appearances. |
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war since 2001.
Famine in the next six years. seven year cycles. then pestilence. Venezuela, India, all caused by monetary manipulation. GM crop controls. food controls that are artificial. |
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There are wars going on all the time. There has been a war somewhere in the world during every day of my life starting with WW2.It will never get better and has the potential to get much worse.
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I agree with Stephen Hawkin's we do need to leave this planet.
The Human Species is incredibly violent, we kill more of our own species than any other animal. As our weapons get more effective we will eventually destroy ourselves, we must leave the Earth. The problem is the power to colonise other planets also will give us the power to destroy ourselves, so it is going to be a race. I believe in Robots they could do everything we want in time, human beings will be able to live a comfortable life of culture, learning, art and entertainment. Or we will use them to destroy each other????????????????????????? |
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we won't be able to control them ebulgery imo. AI has already advanced to a level where the brawn surpasses us, and it won't be long before the "brain" catches up. Our curiosity for advanced science, and the potential for its misuse, will see to that.
We'll be their bit*h*s, not the other way round. |
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yep - it's death by advanced robot, GMO poisoning, viruses introduced to evolve man?, extreme war...
or some of us leave with Jesus. 3/4 of schmucks too clever, will discount this option. "Where's the proof... show us yer god". sorry lads the exam is about 'faith' and you failed the exam. I'll leave you with your scientific immortality scenarios. Dr wahlstein is working on a virus to introduce nanobots into subjects that will colonize the colons of those subjects giving them perfect shaped buttocks. "It's something I always dreamed about as a boy," says Wahlstein. |
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I don't think robots will be hostile.
If they truly are a higher step on the evolutionary ladder then that means not wanting to subvert and destroy others. Otherwise they'll just be a smarter and more powerful version of us. I actually feel a bigger danger for the human race and the planet in general is global warming and the possibility of an asteroid hitting the earth; admittedly rather slim, but we are the first species which has the potential capability of defending ourselves, and we should use that when you consider the damage previous asteroid strikes have had. |
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So basically zorro has called jihad on Stevie? Seems a tad harsh imo.
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Mars is the future
Then maybe a Milky way or even a Galaxy Can't see Astro Belts or Starburst working must be others around |
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the human cull could actually be starting.
similarities with ww2 this last year with the fascist uprising... |
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You won't even know it happened
a select group of toff elite Sas will be sent out under cover of Darkness and administer poison gas throw the letter box. The water and Fosters lager will also be poisoned in case anyone escapes. Think i have the beginnings of a blockbuster here |
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best make sure you dont have a letter box then.....
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Maybe I've underestimated the threat that Hawking poses. I think he would make a great Bond villain
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Yes G1_Jockey_4 judging by the Xmas cards
we got the postman is underworked. |
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Is Hawking actually saying any of these things? Last I heard only one person could actually communicate with him and their credibility was not beyond question.
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I don't think the toffs will want to kill the slaves Wit-ham, apart from a few for amusement's sake, otherwise, they will have to work for a living themselves. I will buy your book provided you have a Kindle edition.
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Living beyond Earth is near impossible and technology is way off before we can expand in the Universe.
We can survive in space, just about when we get all our supplies sent to us. I think there is just too much against us to conquer the Universe. We simply don't have enough information on whether we could reproduce and survive hostile environments. The biggest challenge is gravity, Mars has only 2/5ths the gravity of the Earth, could someone have a child on Mars and would the child develope correctly? What about bacteria and viruses that our lives depend on, can they survive the harshness of the Martian environment and will they reproduce? Surviving on Mars with all the radiation and volatile atmosphere will be hard enough. Terra-forming Mars will take millennia imo. This could also answer the Fermi Paradox that civilisations can't conquer space. |
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Even if it were possible to move to another planet, only a few, perhaps dozens, maybe hundreds would be able to leave earth. The rest, billions of us, are destined to die here.
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The mossies will wipe us out long before the robots get a chance.
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Thank you Foinavon
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Robots and MARS - stuck in a fifties mind set.
They argue that they made it to the Moon and we are going to other planets. time is up - your game is over kiddies. it's time to come in and go to bed. |