[pachyderm]

"Hawking suggested that unless the human race begins to inhabit outer space, it will disappear.

"Hawking is worried about the way humans are eating up finite resources and commented that our genetic code "carries selfish and aggressive instincts," which have helped humanity survive so often in times gone by."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20...CmoreStories.0

[KathyM]

Uh, yeah, sorry dude - I have no desire to fly to the moon or become a Martian.

[Rhiannonsmoon]

Thinking that the only way humans will become extinct is if mineral mining is not stopped

[Ygrec23]

Does anyone really have a problem with the human race coming to an end sometime in the future? Most species don't last forever. Scientists have even figured out an average lifetime for species. I don't know what it is, but it sure is less than infinity. Considering how much collective pain is represented JUST ON PC, then estimating from that a global annual figure, gets you to IMMENSE quantities of real misery. (We could work it out in quantitative terms by starting with a metrical unit called the "Sade.") Why would anyone want to keep this up infinitely? Does any other species on earth have to put up with as much misery as we do? So let's look forward to the end and be happy about it. Surely the ants could do as good a job. No one expects a TV show to run forever, or a Broadway play, or a particular magazine or newspaper, or a particular empire, or an individual human life. So the prospect of species eradication shouldn't trouble us as much as Stephen Hawking seems to feel it will. The hell with the moon and mars, we'll stay here, stay home and all pass away in our communal fatherland.

Take care.

[lynn P.]

I think there should be a world summit to agree on rules to help the environment. I saw on the news the other day - it said.......there are enough plastic water bottles to line up around the earth, 6 times - isn't that shocking!!

I can never wrap my mind around bomb testing or bombs period - it ruins the precious earth. My country is making advances in reducing the carbon footprint but we need all the countries to hop on the band wagon and each person to do their part. Then we won't have to think about living in space and polluting that too.

[El-ahrairah]

lol I'll be honest I don't humans.

I don't mind if we become instinct, sure I am a human myself but even I feel like I don't belong as one, Steven Hawking is right about us being selfish and aggressive, he's also right that we're using up too much too fast.

Going to space would be awesome but I think I'd be dead by the time that has happened lol

[Timgt5]

Regardless of our actions at this point, climate change will make this planet uninhabitable for civilization in a couple of thousand years. Climate scientests have predicted another ice age will eventually occur, which would effectively end any civilization that still existed at that time.

I can however think of another possibility for our "extinction" A lot of times extinction of a species occurs when it is displaced by a superior form. I think personally what will doom humanity is the inevitable merger of man and machine. I think that somewhere down the road our successors will be some form of nano-tech based human-machine hybrid being.

This type of being will displace us, in the same way our Cro-Magnon ancestors displaced the neandretal man. The world, will belong to the 'metal' so to speak.

[Nsomthin]

I can however think of another possibility for our "extinction" A lot of times extinction of a species occurs when it is displaced by a superior form. I think personally what will doom humanity is the inevitable merger of man and machine. I think that somewhere down the road our successors will be some form of nano-tech based human-machine hybrid being.

i agree completely , and it is my hope that this will happen and we will replace ourselves with a superior being