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Cocytus
05/04/17 12:04:01 PM
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http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/techandscience/stephen-hawking-adjusts-doomsday-clock-gives-us-100-years-to-leave-earth/ar-BBAIBAm

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"We gotta get out of this place. (“This place” being the Earth that we all know and love).

Stephen Hawking has come up with yet another doomsday prediction for humans, this time giving us just 100 years to skedaddle.

Professor Hawking’s apocalyptic predictions began in 2015, when he mentioned in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session that super intelligent AI might wipe us all out. He’s also cautioned against contacting aliens that might not be as friendly as we think.

In November last year, he gave us about 1,000 years to leave Earth. Then in March of this year, he hinted that a one-world government might be the answer to our myriad problems.

Now the respected physicist is warning that humanity needs to become a multi-planetary species within the next century in order to avoid extinction.

My question is this: What happened in the last in the last six months for him to shave 900 years off our time on Earth? It seems a little…rash.

OK, so the U.S. has its first orange president and North Korea’s Great Haircut is looking a little dangerous, but 900 years less? All due respect, but that’s a massive reduction in our life expectancy.

Professor Hawking made the prediction in a new documentary called Expedition New Earth, which the BBC will air on June 15.

In the documentary, Hawking claims that we need to leave Earth because of problems such as climate change, asteroid strikes, epidemics and overpopulation. He also travels the world with his former student Christopher Galfard and engineering professor Danielle George to find out how we could live in outer space.

In recent months, Mars has been dominating headlines as the most likely candidate for colonisation. The Red Planet has a lot going for it, including ice deposits, useful elements, the potential for renewable energy projects, an atmosphere (albeit thin), kinda tolerable temperatures, decent day length and manageable gravity.

On the minus side, it’s still damn far away and pretty hostile compared to the cushy comforts of Good Old Earth. It’s one thing to talk about leaving, but actually doing it will be very difficult and incredibly dangerous. Getting all of us off Earth within 100 years? No way.

Excluding a sudden meteor strike, to which there is no defence (except Bruce Willis), wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"


Should we be scared now?
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TheDarkCircle
05/04/17 12:04:37 PM
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Nah in 100 years everyone one of us here will have already left
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Cocytus
05/04/17 12:10:21 PM
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TheDarkCircle posted...
Nah in 100 years everyone one of us here will have already left

Well, you know, our kids. That's just like 1-2 generations away.
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lilORANG
05/04/17 12:11:35 PM
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CowboyDan
05/04/17 12:13:53 PM
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lilORANG posted...
doomsday clock is stupid.

It's not that one
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cobain27
05/04/17 12:17:01 PM
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Don't care. I'll be dead.
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Cocytus
05/04/17 12:18:48 PM
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cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

Damn, y'all are some cynical mugs.
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DarkChozoGhost
05/04/17 12:19:21 PM
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Cocytus posted...
That's just like 1-2 generations away.

Lol. 100 years is 3-5 generations.
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Caution999
05/04/17 12:20:13 PM
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Reminder: Hawking was a literal cuck.
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Cocytus
05/04/17 12:20:35 PM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
Cocytus posted...
That's just like 1-2 generations away.

Lol. 100 years is 3-5 generations.

Whatever, it's still pretty fucking soon. Let's not bury the lead here.
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UnholyMudcrab
05/04/17 12:20:44 PM
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Darklit_Minuet
05/04/17 12:21:36 PM
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So I don't have to worry about anything? Awesome :D
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voldothegr8
05/04/17 12:21:44 PM
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He right, we either get off this rock before resources are used up or we're doomed as a civilization eventually.
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Leanaunfurled
05/04/17 12:22:34 PM
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Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.
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apolloooo
05/04/17 12:22:37 PM
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Fukushima probably screwed us up in the long term.

I still doubt the statement and still reluctantly label it as overreaction and fear mongering, but that much radiation pouring into the ocean would be bad. Last reported, teh robots they sent to clean stuff up and gather data just fried not too long after they entered the hotspot. Those robots are designed to endure radiation too.

Plus climate change and shit is getting worse too. I can physically feel it as teh weather pattern in my city is getting rather abrupt the last few years.

I dunno, but i know i am cynical and jaded enough to see that i dotn really see a bright future for humanity
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NOM
05/04/17 12:23:07 PM
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I'll make sure to wave at the spaceship from six feet under.
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darkphoenix181
05/04/17 12:24:37 PM
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Cocytus posted...
Then in March of this year, he hinted that a one-world government might be the answer to our myriad problems.


so he is an illuminati shill now

Cocytus posted...
Now the respected physicist is warning that humanity needs to become a multi-planetary species within the next century in order to avoid extinction.

My question is this: What happened in the last in the last six months for him to shave 900 years off our time on Earth? It seems a little…rash.


simple

they wanted headlines

this is literally clickbait, too bad Stephen Hawking decided to essentially become a buzzfeed person now


Professor Hawking made the prediction in a new documentary called Expedition New Earth, which the BBC will air on June 15.



oh

he just trying to get us to watch his show

by stirring up headlines and advertise it

how low
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YookaLaylee
05/04/17 12:25:45 PM
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Cocytus posted...
cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

Damn, y'all are some cynical mugs.

It's s good point though
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meingott
05/04/17 12:25:45 PM
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why does anyone even take that crackpot seriously?
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Darklit_Minuet
05/04/17 12:26:50 PM
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Cocytus posted...
cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

Damn, y'all are some cynical mugs.

Knowing that I won't live to be 126 isn't cynical, it's realistic
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UnholyMudcrab
05/04/17 12:26:59 PM
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meingott posted...
that crackpot

Anything for a little attention, huh, Clad?
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meingott
05/04/17 12:36:05 PM
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Not surprised UnholyMudcrab is riding Stephen Hawkings hard.
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MuayThai85
05/04/17 12:36:51 PM
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Leanaunfurled posted...
Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.


How is human extinction the best thing for everyone? Or are you one of those crazies who considers animals to be people?
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Darklit_Minuet
05/04/17 12:37:35 PM
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MuayThai85 posted...
Leanaunfurled posted...
Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.


How is human extinction the best thing for everyone? Or are you one of those crazies who considers animals to be people?

Other way around. People are just animals
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Sativa_Rose
05/04/17 12:38:22 PM
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This is really pessimistic. He must be surrounded by fearmongers or something.
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Terra-enforcer
05/04/17 12:39:07 PM
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TheDarkCircle posted...
Nah in 100 years everyone one of us here will have already left

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darkphoenix181
05/04/17 1:00:36 PM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
This is really pessimistic. He must be surrounded by fearmongers or something.


actually it is just advertising

he has a NEW documentary out

and he wants you to watch it

how to do this with a boring science documentary that most dudebros wouldn't want to watch?

simple, claim the world is ending soon and this documentary explains why

ratings THROUGH THE ROOF
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DoctorPiranha3
05/04/17 1:05:21 PM
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Leanaunfurled posted...
Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.

We existed for hundreds of thousands of years as an unharmful species... didn't really cause more damage to the planet than say, a gorilla.

But we're past that point of no return, sadly. Capitalism, greed, war, governments, ideologies... those will equate to our inevitable demise.

We might die out, but this planet will still move on. Life will find a way, even if the biosphere is shaken up. Mass extinctions have happened plenty of times before, but life is resilient.
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voldothegr8
05/04/17 1:08:11 PM
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...
Leanaunfurled posted...
Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.

We existed for hundreds of thousands of years as an unharmful species... didn't really cause more damage to the planet than say, a gorilla.

But we're past that point of no return, sadly. Capitalism, greed, war, governments, ideologies... those will equate to our inevitable demise.

We might die out, but this planet will still move on. Life will find a way, even if the biosphere is shaken up. Mass extinctions have happened plenty of times before, but life is resilient.

Until a cosmic event completely eviscerates this planet.
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UnholyMudcrab
05/04/17 1:14:46 PM
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meingott posted...
Not surprised UnholyMudcrab is riding Stephen Hawkings hard.

Honestly, what do these ridiculous statements gain you? Do you feel proud of yourself when you make them?
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DoctorPiranha3
05/04/17 1:15:34 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
DoctorPiranha3 posted...
Leanaunfurled posted...
Cocytus posted...
wouldn’t it be easier to just take better care of this planet?"

Like that'll ever happen.

Best thing that could happen for everyone and everything is the extinction of humans.

We existed for hundreds of thousands of years as an unharmful species... didn't really cause more damage to the planet than say, a gorilla.

But we're past that point of no return, sadly. Capitalism, greed, war, governments, ideologies... those will equate to our inevitable demise.

We might die out, but this planet will still move on. Life will find a way, even if the biosphere is shaken up. Mass extinctions have happened plenty of times before, but life is resilient.

Until a cosmic event completely eviscerates this planet.

Yeah, or the climate gets too extreme. But those events are far out in the future.. a mass extinction is more imminent, relatively.
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refmon
05/04/17 1:17:43 PM
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cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

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SwatterXX
05/04/17 1:40:38 PM
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We'll be fine once we put everyone on the other side of the wall. Sad.
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EvalAngell
05/04/17 1:44:23 PM
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Cocytus posted...
My question is this: What happened in the last in the last six months for him to shave 900 years off our time on Earth? It seems a little rash.



Someone from DHARMA forgot to push the button.
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meingott
05/04/17 1:55:09 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
meingott posted...
Not surprised UnholyMudcrab is riding Stephen Hawkings hard.

Honestly, what do these ridiculous statements gain you? Do you feel proud of yourself when you make them?


Do you?
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chill02
05/04/17 1:56:09 PM
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cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

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hyperpsycho
05/04/17 2:24:13 PM
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chill02 posted...
cobain27 posted...
Don't care. I'll be dead.

Kind of agree with this but I hope we can colonize other worlds before then. For future generations.
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iosifsvoboda
05/04/17 2:26:39 PM
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Hawking is a fucking hack. The theory he got famous for he later proved wrong meaning his whole career is built on a bedrock of lies (like all science anyway but still)
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Omnislasher
05/04/17 2:26:42 PM
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it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct
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modena
05/04/17 2:41:59 PM
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Cocytus posted...
DarkChozoGhost posted...
Cocytus posted...
That's just like 1-2 generations away.

Lol. 100 years is 3-5 generations.

Whatever, it's still pretty fucking soon. Let's not bury the lead here.



For most younger families that is correct.But one like mine it would be 1-3 generations.
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meingott
05/04/17 2:45:49 PM
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Omnislasher posted...
it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct


lmao at actually believing that horseshit. the world will be okay, dude. we'll electrify all transport and have full grids running on clean renewable energy within 25 years at this rate.
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Omnislasher
05/04/17 2:47:10 PM
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meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct


lmao at actually believing that horseshit. the world will be okay, dude. we'll electrify all transport and have full grids running on clean renewable energy within 25 years at this rate.


does it feel nice there buried in the sand?
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Paragon21XX
05/04/17 2:49:06 PM
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Where are we going to go? We can't even get our own shit together long enough to return to manned exploration missions beyond LEO.
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Gunpo
05/04/17 2:52:13 PM
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Space isnt real
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_Goggalor_
05/04/17 2:55:05 PM
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I think Stephen Hawking is a very intelligent man. O dfo not, however, believe he is psychic or can predict the future. Surely neither does he..
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meingott
05/04/17 2:57:57 PM
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Omnislasher posted...
meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct


lmao at actually believing that horseshit. the world will be okay, dude. we'll electrify all transport and have full grids running on clean renewable energy within 25 years at this rate.


does it feel nice there buried in the sand?


why don't you tell me, seeing as the oceans were supposed to have destroyed the coasts by now according to al gore
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DarkDragon400
05/04/17 3:03:30 PM
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meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct


lmao at actually believing that horseshit. the world will be okay, dude. we'll electrify all transport and have full grids running on clean renewable energy within 25 years at this rate.


does it feel nice there buried in the sand?


why don't you tell me, seeing as the oceans were supposed to have destroyed the coasts by now according to al gore

Because when I think of climate scientists, I think of Al Gore.
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Omnislasher
05/04/17 3:35:17 PM
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DarkDragon400 posted...
meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
meingott posted...
Omnislasher posted...
it's baffling that it took hawking this long to bother to look into climate change at all

any humans still left at the turn of next century will wish that we had gone extinct


lmao at actually believing that horseshit. the world will be okay, dude. we'll electrify all transport and have full grids running on clean renewable energy within 25 years at this rate.


does it feel nice there buried in the sand?


why don't you tell me, seeing as the oceans were supposed to have destroyed the coasts by now according to al gore

Because when I think of climate scientists, I think of Al Gore.


seriously.

I don't give a shit about al gore..
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Silver Bearings
05/04/17 3:40:29 PM
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Hawking is a dumbass just trying to get some attention.
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Letron_James
05/04/17 3:41:35 PM
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Silver Bearings posted...
Hawking is a dumbass just trying to get some attention.


Yeah im pretty sure hes not a dumbass. Attention whore sure, but hes not stupid
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