Stephen Hawking: Humanity won't last longer than 1000 years on Earth.
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[quote]Stephen Hawking believes that humanity has less than a thousand years on Earth before a mass extinction occurs, the leading theoretical physicist said during a speech Tuesday at Oxford University Union, U.K.
According to Hawking, the only way humans can avoid the possibility of extinction was to find another planet to inhabit.
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[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-hawking-puts-expiry-date-103124525.html[/URL]
At the rate were going I'd be amazed if it were made it 500
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51385367]At the rate were going I'd be amazed if it were made it 500[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna say 50
Well to be honest that's definitely more optimistic than my estimates
I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.
Il bet good money against that... people are perhaps the most resourceful species on this planet and have survived far worse odds.
[QUOTE=The mouse;51385382]I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.[/QUOTE]
We'll exhaust resources and shit up the air and land. Doubt we can adapt to that.
[QUOTE=The mouse;51385382]I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.[/QUOTE]
You mean the same species that elected someone last week that thinks global warming is a chinese hoax and poses a serious threat to a globally signed treaty on fighting it despite overwhelming scientific consensus and "warmest year in known history" being repeated like a broken record
[QUOTE=The mouse;51385382]I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.[/QUOTE]
The exponential growth of the human race has multiplied so much in the last 50 years that I think it's very possible, coupled with our use of natural resources growing as well.
It will be interesting to see what lifeforms will form after humanity has long gone, because I assume at this point if humans go so will 90% of the ecosystem too, that leaves room for the next great being to conquer the earth.
With Elon and SpaceX eyeing mars, and it will happen, im not too worried about the survival of mankind, but Earths time is numbered
[QUOTE=Turnips5;51385379]I'm gonna say 50[/QUOTE]
We're all actually already dead
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On earth. If we haven't to have multiplier planets then we last longer than a 1,000 years.
[QUOTE=Megadave;51385419]It will be interesting to see what lifeforms will form after humanity has long gone, because I assume at this point if humans go so will 90% of the ecosystem too, that leaves room for the next great being to conquer the earth.[/QUOTE]
Intelligent life might also just be so rare that nothing really does. Which is both pretty good and bad
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51385450]With Elon and SpaceX eyeing mars, and it will happen, im not too worried about the survival of mankind, but Earths time is numbered[/QUOTE]
Came here to post the same sentiment - hopefully we can stave off the demise, but we're too (ironically) provincial in our though to see the bigger picture.
Those yahoo comments really help to explain how 2016 happened.
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[QUOTE]James23 hours ago
After reading some of these comments I am OK with extinction now![/QUOTE]
He said pretty much all this a few years ago, but it's good to remind us, especially in times like these, and our current space voyage.
If Earth really does end up uninhabitable to humans and most kind of like, I hope there will be a attempt to preserve the other kinds of life that existed on this planet.
[QUOTE=The mouse;51385382]I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.[/QUOTE]
We didn't have nukes, super intensive farming, massive sea pollution, man made global warming for most of that time.
That said I dunno why Stephen Hawkins opinion on the matter is that important, hes a theoretical physicist and knows his shit in that field but that doesn't mean he knows everything about everything.
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51385450]With Elon and SpaceX eyeing mars, and it will happen, im not too worried about the survival of mankind, but Earths time is numbered[/QUOTE]
So instead of preventing our extremely habitable planet becoming uninhabitable, we're going to terraform a completely uninhabitable planet?
[QUOTE=The mouse;51385382]I think he's underestimating the ability of Mankind to survive and adapt. The ability to adapt is the reason we've survived the last 10,000 or so years, I fail to see why we couldn't last well over 1,000 years.[/QUOTE]
It depends on what happens, really. There are several possible threats to mankind that can end in all of us just leading really fucking shitty lives, and several others that will kill us all.
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51385450]With Elon and SpaceX eyeing mars, and it will happen, im not too worried about the survival of mankind, but [B]Earths time is numbered[/B][/QUOTE]
That sounds more depressing/sad than it should (considering I will be long dead by then)
For some reason I'm completely ok with this
1000 years is nothing in a cosmic sense, the planet isn't gonna change much in that time unless we either nuke the fuck out of it or go back to the industrial revolution, he's just saying this so people hurry the fuck up and start seriously thinking about expansion
Good riddance.
I think it's reasonable to think that we need to be prudent about our long-term survival, but this just seems needlessly pessimistic.
[QUOTE=*Freezorg*;51385784]1000 years is nothing in a cosmic sense, the planet isn't gonna change much in that time unless we either nuke the fuck out of it or go back to the industrial revolution, he's just saying this so people hurry the fuck up and start seriously thinking about expansion[/QUOTE]
I'm all for scare tactic human advancement but it's worthy of note that the past 100 years we've seen a higher climb in global average temperature than we saw since the ice age through 100 years ago. new york and the great lakes were buried under a mile thick glacier, but people still say "oh the ice caps aren't melting that's impossible :)" like we didn't just do more than what unveiled all of canada
I find it quite ironic that a man who was given an exaggerated death sentence is now doing the same to mankind as a whole.
I predict mass food shortages worldwide (probably not within our lifetime), coupled with various environmental issues, slowly and then quickly killing off the human population. People are already trying to conserve space by doing massive hydroponics which offer higher yield of crops. But that will only keep us alive for so long, people will continue to overpopulate, the government will force limits on the amount of children we can have, but probably not strictly enforce them. Perhaps a few of the wealthy will live on for a while but ultimately we will die before we can develop the tech and muster up the resources to move at least 0.000000001% of our population to another planet. That planet won't be sustainable and the human race will die, but likely our genetic code will be saved in some sort of storage. And perhaps (if there is life outside our galaxy) one day an alien race will find our DNA and have enough wisdom to NOT clone our species. This is all assuming an apocolyptic event won't happen, which is very likely, considering the worldwide political climate nowadays.
We should just nuke everything already and get it over with.
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