Hawking says Browncoats are right!

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PAGANPAUL

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:30 PM

Stephen Hawking says humans must go into space.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060613/ap_on_sc/stephen_hawking

HONG KONG - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

We Browncoats have been saying it all along...

Comments?

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Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze.
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PaganPaul:
"Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

Via the power of links I bring you
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The end of the world:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

Several actually.

FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:52 AM

Of course he's right.

"Why are we still talking about this?"

bun
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KAIN

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:00 AM

LET'S GO!

Kain

BELOWZERO

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kain:
LET'S GO!

Kain

I'm with Kain!!! Let me load up the dog team....

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

KHYRON

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:23 AM

Why did you start this thread twice?

Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.

CHRISMOORHEAD

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:38 AM

Whoa, I've been looking for this site for like 6 years. Saw it once a long time ago, never could find it again. Thanks!

By the by, as cool as it would be to live in a FireFly Verse', let's not forget that from the time they began their great exodus to the time when the system was like it is on the show took hundreds of years. Y'know what life's like until then? Cramped conditions with thousands of other people on a space ship, like some 1700 poor Chinese town square EVERY DAY of your life.

Thanks, but I'll just wait here for the meteor.

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Stand up and you'll win, surrender and you'll lose, it's heads or tails, you have to choose.

FLATTOP

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:27 AM

Quote:
Y'know what life's like until then? Cramped conditions with thousands of other people on a space ship, like some 1700 poor Chinese town square EVERY DAY of your life.

Not likely. Way too expensive to lift/feed/provide air for so much meat. Much more likely to be a colony ship with LOTS of already fertilized eggs and an ex-utero way to incubate them. Lower tech way would be to have an all female crew (at least the generation before planet-fall would need to be mostly/all female), impregnate them (repeatedly) with widely varied, already fertilized eggs (instant gene-pool diversity) upon arrival at destination.
If it's a generational ship (very likely unless we make some huge leaps in engine technology), the crew will have to have children en-route(recommend pre-fertilized eggs) and train them with the help of the ships libraries in how to operate/maintain the ship.

Do you know what your sin is Captain?
Aww Hell. I'm a big fan of all seven.

AGATSU

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:34 AM

What's the progress on cryo-technology, btw?

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PINBALLWIZARD

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:58 AM

Steven Hawking is about the coolest guy ever to be almost completely immoble. Has anyone seen the movie "A Brief History of Time"? Both facinating and heart wrenching.

No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.

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