[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '
')Invasion from Earth. This is the mindset of the early arrivals to this country. They decimated the local wildlife, (passenger pigeon and the American Bison come readily to mind) then focused on decimating and outcompeting the "natives".

No wonder we are in trouble on this planet.

[grabby]

If you'd like to have anitgravity, and amrica votes for antigravity you still won't get antigravity.


If you'd LIKE to go to the stars spend all our gross domestic product on going to the stars you still can't build a ship that will make it to the stars.

[EnergyUnlimited]

It is quite funny when someone who resorted to ad hominem attacks FIRST (presumably due to lack of better arguments) make complains about receiving the same LATER in reply to his own actions.

Evidence:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', ' ')It is also a fact, that humans had newer tried to live in alien planetary system.
Even if not constructed or evolved to live there, they may ADAPT easily should conditions there sufficiently remain ours.
Look on rabbits in Australia for precedence.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', 'I')f you'd like to have anitgravity, and amrica votes for antigravity you still won't get antigravity.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'I')t is quite funny when someone who resorted to ad hominem attacks FIRST (presumably due to lack of better arguments) make complains about receiving the same LATER in reply to his own actions.

[linlithgowoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', '
')Hawking does have a clue on the final outcome for most of us though.

[0mar]

Entire discussion is moot. We are decades from establishing a Lunar Colony, 50 years from exploiting asteroirds or what not, 50+ years from a Mars base. We just now have established a permanent base in space (ISS).

Interstellar travel is several hundred years away, if it's even possible to travel such huge distances. Hawking, of all people, should know the tremendous hurdles to interstellar travel.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'E')ntire discussion is moot. We are decades from establishing a Lunar Colony, 50 years from exploiting asteroirds or what not, 50+ years from a Mars base. We just now have established a permanent base in space (ISS).

Interstellar travel is several hundred years away, if it's even possible to travel such huge distances. Hawking, of all people, should know the tremendous hurdles to interstellar travel.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'L')ikening rabbits ability to adapt to Australia as a precedence for humans being able to adapt to living on another alien planet shows huge ignorance of biology.

[untothislast]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', 'N')ow this space-travel thing requires vast amounts of energy, so vast you’ll never be able to understand. Traveling to the closest star with the current technology or with what we have in the most advanced labs right now is utterly and totally fiction. Not even science-fiction, but pure fiction.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'H')owever it does NOT mean that It IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GO AND LIVE THERE UNDER ANY IMAGINABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, and I observe, that you represent this viev.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'H')owever it does NOT mean that It IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GO AND LIVE THERE UNDER ANY IMAGINABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, and I observe, that you represent this viev.

[Carlhole]

Stephen Hawking Seeks Answers on Humanity's Future: Hawking Seeks Answers on Humanity's Future

Anyone have any suggestions for him?

[Jack]

''In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?''

Establish well defended locales (probably nation-states) and keep the starving hordes at bay until the die off finishes its necessary work. After 100 years, population will be in balance with resources.

[rogerhb]

Learn to live within its limits. I thought that would have been obvious to a bright chap with lot's of time on his hands to think.....

[Loki]

I think a better question is do we deserve to be around in 100 years. I'm not so sure.

As for Hawking, he's already decided what humanity's future will be like. It involves "self-designed evolution," the replacement of "unimproved humans" by "superhumans," the colonization of space, and then the replacement of biological humans by machines. At least that's what he said in a lecture I attended 10 years ago.

[threadbear]

Hawking should stick to physics and math.

[aldente]

Jack talks about a population in balance after a die-off 100 years from now. I doubt that. It is as if one would regress and go back to common agriculture just the way it happend for the last 10.000 years. Less people, problem solved (or so). The larger process displays patterns however that give away clues for those who look for them, most significant the irreversible nature of the overall process.

In an older post I quoted a statement that I picked up in context of the irreversible development happening on this planet Earth at the moment, quote: This process, Chardin realized, requiring the tapping of the stored energy and amassed mineral resources of the planet could happen only once.

Earth Ascending

Reality is that that there is not a single activity that humanity could pride itself of contributing to the overall equilibrium. In fact, every activity, without exception seems to be upsetting the natural balance, mildly worded.

It seems that we all have our own vision of how a post peak world will look like and following the patterns of the past a inevitable final resource world war will termimate us or a gradual and nasty natural kind of die-off due to a shortage of provisions and/or both plus ' not to be forgotten the runnaway global warming effect.

No wonder this forum is full of doomers.

The New Age I envision is different however. It is not specifically new, neither is it common trade. It will be an example of how consciousness follows the same leap-pattern that was first discovered by Heisenberg and what is now referred to as Quantum Mechanics.

[evilgenius]

Yeah,

I would tell him not to be tempted by the idea that going back to riding horses and living on multi-acre non-interconnected plots of land is any solution at all. We will get through what is coming as a whole or we will not get through it at all. In that view every person is as valuable as the next. Nobody deserves to survive any more than their neighbor or their enemy does.

Yes, if we can only see two solutions to every problem the issue of which is survival then we aren't thinking like people and insofar as evolution goes we probably don't deserve to survive. Man has gotten as far as he has because he hasn't allowed himself to be limited by black and white thinking. He has innovated and solved seemingly unsolvable problems in new ways.

We need to find a way to get everybody through this one.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'M')an has gotten as far as he has because he hasn't allowed himself to be limited by black and white thinking. He has innovated and solved seemingly unsolvable problems in new ways.