Steven Hawking has made a dire warning that
the end of the world is upon us.
So how is the world going to end?
A gigantic ball of fire is going to engulf
the earth.
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So you know Steven Hawking?
The Cambridge university physicist that talks
through a computer?
Yeah hes a pretty smart guy.
But he also thinks the world is going to end
in less than 600 years.
Normally when I hear about these doomsday
predictions, they are made by pseudoscientists
or religious fanatics, but not this time.
At the 2017 Tencent WE Summit in Beijing,
Steven Hawking made the claim that both energy
consumption and overcrowding will result planet
earth transforming into a quote ‘sizzling
ball of fire’.
His words, not mine.
Hawking is known for making pretty intense
doomsday predictions, he’s warned of the
dangers of artificial intelligence as well
as making contact with intelligent alien life,
but his latest warning is probably the scariest
I’ve heard yet.
When Steven Hawking talks about a sizzling
ball of fire, he is talking about climate
change, and rising earth temperatures.
Basically our planet, if we keep burning fossil
fuels the way that we are, is going to be
so hot that it will be virtually uninhabitable.
While this wont happen in our lifetime, 600
years is not exactly that far down the line.
So what is the solution here?
Well, unless we find a way to stop using fossil
fuels, which lets face it, we probably won’t,
we are going ot have to find a way to leave
planet earth, and go elsewhere.
During his appearance at the summit, he also
mentioned breakthrough starshot, Which is
a 100 million dollar project that means to
send a spacecraft to our closest star system,
alpha centauri, in a reasonable amount of
time.
Alpha centauri is 4 light years away, and
it would take around 20 years to get there.
For some perspective, it would take less than
an hour for this probe to reach mars.
Breakthrough starshot is backed by facebook
CEO mark zuckerberg, and the whole point of
it is to try to find another planet that could
be life bearing, that humans haven’t screwed
up yet.
I mean, if what steven says is true, then
Breakthrough Starshot might be our only chance
at survival.
COMMENTS
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Game Lock – I would want to live forever
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