Stephen Hawking thinks that humanity is just about done for here on Earth:
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| This is Earth |
Hawking has a solution, though. He suggests that we can keep the human species alive by moving it offsite, to Mars:
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| This is Mars |
Click this link for an article discussing Hawking's plan, and see the image below for an artist's impression of a human colony on Mars:
When Hawking says "humanity" can be saved by moving it to Mars, I don't think that necessarily includes either you or me, or any of our children or grandchildren. SOME humans will be saved! I guess I am supposed to be happy about that.
Frankly, though, instead of spending all the money necessary to send a few specimens of human life to Mars, as a way to "save the species," why not recognize what the wise among us know already? Human life is life inextricably linked to Planet Earth, a world we did not create, and a world upon which we are utterly dependent.
Let's spend our money figuring out how NOT to destroy the Earth, and ourselves. Then, instead of sending a few specimens off to Mars, which is, after all, a rather uncongenial location, we can provide opportunities to go camping in Yosemite:
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| Humanity's New Home (An Artist's Conception) |
Frankly, though, instead of spending all the money necessary to send a few specimens of human life to Mars, as a way to "save the species," why not recognize what the wise among us know already? Human life is life inextricably linked to Planet Earth, a world we did not create, and a world upon which we are utterly dependent.
Let's spend our money figuring out how NOT to destroy the Earth, and ourselves. Then, instead of sending a few specimens off to Mars, which is, after all, a rather uncongenial location, we can provide opportunities to go camping in Yosemite:
Image Credits
(1) - http://www.extremescience.com/earth.htm
(2) - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jul/14/mars.spaceexploration
(3) - http://news.discovery.com/space/hawking-earth-is-likely-doomed-humanity-neednt-be-160119.htm
(4) - http://www.amazon.com/Overdevelopment-Overpopulation-Overshoot-Tom-Butler/product-reviews/1939621232
(3) - http://news.discovery.com/space/hawking-earth-is-likely-doomed-humanity-neednt-be-160119.htm
(4) - http://www.amazon.com/Overdevelopment-Overpopulation-Overshoot-Tom-Butler/product-reviews/1939621232
do both
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