Stephen Hawking says mankind has 100 years left on Earth. Thanks, Steve.

[ttystikk]

for any of the most brilliant physicists to figure, based on history and current knowledge of physics and astrophysics , the time of some catastrophe with an accuracy of between 1,000 and 10,000 years would not be uncanny.

The clock is ticking now. We could start a thermonuclear war, Yellowstone could pop, an asteroid could smack the Earth, and there are even more Extinction Level Events than these, likely some we haven't even considered.

Time to get humans out of this one single handbasket before we arrive at the inevitable destination.

 

[Justin-case]

And where do the raw materials come from? Factories? Food production?

That's one simplistic idea you've got there.

I saw this movie once....

 

[UncleBuck]

And where do the raw materials come from? Factories? Food production?

That's one simplistic idea you've got there.

don't these talking monkeys know that eden has enough to go around?

 

[Ray Kudronic]

Just looking at statistics for cataclysmic events over the span of the Earth's life you can tell we are overdue.

I'm unsure of this, because in developed countries where internet access is unlimited there are still all these people that debate the facts of science in favour of global conspiracies.

One of the things I read Stephen was talking about was our progress with artificial intelligence.

"Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded".

Not his original idea by any means either, look up Ray Kurzweil: the singularity is near if you have any more interest.

 

[ttystikk]

Just looking at statistics for cataclysmic events over the span of the Earth's life you can tell we are overdue.


Not his original idea by any means either, look up Ray Kurzweil: the singularity is near if you have any more interest.

Issac Asimov had this same idea many years ago, and wrote it into many of his Sci Fi novels.

 

[Ray Kudronic]

I have a very deterministic view on this world and the current path technology is taking us. That being said I think the real end goal, once all is said and done is to leave this planet and expand through out the universe. That is if we are abel to survive long enough and hopefully we make it in time. So while I wait, I grow and smoke.

 

[Justin-case]

don't these talking monkeys know that eden has enough to go around?

Ahhh yes, where the oceans are full of Budweiser.

 

[ttystikk]

Ahhh yes, where the oceans are full of Budweiser.

All that CO2 is good for growing!

Water with Brawdo! It's got electrolytes!

 

[heckler73]

First it's 1000 years, then he re-ran the equation now it's 100 years.

I'd like to hear another scientists opinion @heckler73?

If Hawkings equation was off when he figured it to be 100 from 1000, perhaps his equation is still off?

He has no equation from what I can see.
That article was a commercial for his show and fear is being used to sell it.
No one would've heard about it otherwise.

 

[HAF2]

Just looking at statistics for cataclysmic events over the span of the Earth's life you can tell we are overdue.


Not his original idea by any means either, look up Ray Kurzweil: the singularity is near if you have any more interest.

I'm familiar with the works of James Cameron

 

[schuylaar]

He has no equation from what I can see.
That article was a commercial for his show and fear is being used to sell it.
No one would've heard about it otherwise.

So how do you think he arrived at this theory?

 

[SneekyNinja]

So how do you think he arrived at this theory?

It's clickbait.

Science is the methodical acquisition and processing of data.

Spurious claims are not data despite the source, that's a logical fallacy called "Appeal to Authority".

 

[420God]

So how do you think he arrived at this theory?

This isn't the first time he said the end was near, seems to be every time he's about to release a new book. I hear he has one soon to be released about colonizing Mars, go figure.

Here's an example. https://www.cnet.com/news/stephen-hawking-god-particle-may-wipe-out-the-universe/

Said the same things about A.I. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

The sky is falling!

 

[doublejj]

100 years!......he's overly optimistic, we'll will be lucky to survive the next 4 years....

 

[fdd2blk]

If all of humanity were wiped off the face of the Earth today, what would it matter?

Everyone dies.

 

[doublejj]

If all of humanity were wiped off the face of the Earth today, what would it matter?

Everyone dies.

I got sh*t to do this year......how about next year?

 

[fdd2blk]

I got sh*t to do this year......how about next year?

When you're dead, none of it matters. You won't even know you're dead, you'll just be dead.

We are here for no reason. We serve no purpose. There is no "need" for humanity to exist. If the world ends, so what?

 

[londonfog]

When you're dead, none of it matters. You won't even know you're dead, you'll just be dead.

We are here for no reason. We serve no purpose. There is no "need" for humanity to exist. If the world ends, so what?

Maybe you serve no purpose. Maybe you are here for no reason....In short , speak for yourself

 

[doublejj]

When you're dead, none of it matters. You won't even know you're dead, you'll just be dead.

We are here for no reason. We serve no purpose. There is no "need" for humanity to exist. If the world ends, so what?

the fact that we exist, proves we have a purpose....

 

[londonfog]

the fact that we exist, proves we have a purpose....

@fdd2blk is realizing how a snitching racist welfare recipient felon has zero value to society