Stephen Hawking Predicts the Imminent End of Humanity on Earth Melissa Breyer - Mother Nature Network
go to original May 4, 2013

Stephen Hawking enjoys zero gravity during a flight aboard a modified Boeing 727. (Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network)

Doomsday "preppers" believe salvation will be afforded by means of a well-equipped bunker; the "rapture-ready" set believes in a trip to heaven. Stephen Hawking, on the other hand, recommends the colonization of outer space as our best tool against annihilation.
 
If there’s one person on this planet known for his striking ability to think outside of the box, it’s Hawking — commonly considered the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. And he thinks we need to get our derrières into space, and quick.
 
"We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history," said Hawking, who has struggled gallantly against Lou Gehrig's disease for much of his life.
 
Discussing the Earth's most troubling concerns in an email interview with The Canadian Press, Hawking described space exploration as humankind's most urgent mission. Predicting a planet soon made uninhabitable, he says that our only chance of long-term survival as a species is to “spread out into space.”

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