Human race to be extinct in 200 years

apparently you didnt bnotice this is posted in the comedy section its satire lol

Where does it actually say that he believes we will be extinct in 200 years? I have read the full interview and listened to it too. It is complete rubbish, he never said it. How cheap.

I actually think humans will be extinct a lot sooner than that!

TRIPE! as much as hawking may think he knows, he's clearly NOT a futurist and definitly NOT biologist. life has a way of surviving almost anything. pollution alone will NOT lead to our extinction. the ONLY way humans will go extinct in such a short time is if someone, probably religious nutbags, TRY to make it... and aside from the atmostphere itself being poisonous to us, there really is NO way this can happen. we will evolve, our technology will evolve, life will go on.

The problems with humans are the same things that makes us great. Our consciousness and ability to think and rationalize give us all the delusion that we are separate from the universe. Because of this delusion we have compassion and care only for our own desires and the desires of those closest to us. We all have to realize that we are a part of one whole; the universe. We must have compassion and care for EVERYTHING that makes up our conscious experience, living or not.

I think we will see only a partial extinction sometime in the near future. It will be due to one or both of the following reasons.

First, global warming is starting to make significant changes in the weather patterns which in turn is starting to effect the food supplies. Some people will be lost due to extreme weather conditions that spot the earth. We are starting to see signs of these changes even now.

Secondly, I anticipate we will see a major war erupt most likely based out of either Pakistan and/or Iran. This war will have the potential of going global and could quite possibly involve nuclear weapons on their part. If this in fact happens, many humans will obviously cease to exist.

In either case, I do believe however that the human race will not become extinct here on earth for about another 5000 to 7000 years. By that time we will have discovered how to travel through space and jump galaxies by some means or another. Most likely by the use of worm holes. This technology won't be discovered until we learn as humans how to control ourselves and become more peaceful.

As humans, our egos are enormous. We are inclined to assume that we are the only humanoids or intelligent life forms in existence. Religion tends to assist our egos in this line of reasoning. Based on the size of space and the age of everything in it, this is quite a naive and presumptuous line of thought.

There are indications that aliens may have visited this earth numerous times down through the centuries. The Bible references such an event. In biblical times, anything that came from the heavens, according to the people of the time, had to be either a God or an Angel. At one point, the Bible indicates that some Angels looked down and saw some desirable earthly maidens and came and had their way with them. If this in fact happened, it is most likely these were alienoids not Gods or Angels.

So if aliens do exist which is highly probable, based on the size of space, the likely hood of some turning quite hostile as Stephen Hawking suggests I think would be more based on their being hostile already. They are most likely not all from the same place. I am certain there are those that are hostile and others who are not. This would be consistent with most other species that we find even amongst humans.

I don't believe they all look like little, bulbous headed, saucer eyed, three foot tall creatures. It is quite possible some look just like us along with many other shapes and sizes. This would only seem logical.

In any case, all of us here will become extinct long before the human race becomes extinct. Our choices do however impact those to follow us so we should make them wisely. I do believe in reincarnation and if I am correct, then in a sense, our choices of today will at some point in time come back to haunt ourselves. So we should make our choices accordingly.

Funny cause it's not too hard to imagine seeing how the world is shaping up

Not worried.

Too bad NASA isnt funded by the gov anymore, Steven is a genius and people need to listen. As for the efficient and not pollutant technology, we're too greedy to ever let that happen.

I dont think he is right on this one. As for colonising other planets... look what we did to the Old World and Third World... do we really want to destroy other planets too?

I think he's being generous with that estimate.

Maybe we could start a 'stop reproducing' ourselves movement...guess that's too late too?

Tell me more about this pineal gland activation!

"Did I say 200? I meant 20 years." Stephen H. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Mohamed Ali "Stupid fucking white people." My great grandfather.

ha! stupid humans.

I guess I'll cancel my AARP membership.

awesome pic of hawking!

and thats coz i love u mother earth :)

i think the bottom line is we shud save the planet,mother earth.. its not always only about us! what of the trees the animals and everything else.. i dont think its fair to destroy our planet..

u know what i will start with actually planting some trees in my back yard.. thats my contribution to a green earth :)

oh it will be sooner than that - we suck.

hmmm i guess intelligence iz in the brain of the beholder..this guy can't b 2 freakin smart if he's tellin us 2 colonize other planets...when its well known that humans can't survive outside of earth lmao...we have got to make it here!

I do think we'll 'shed' our human bodies before 200 years from now and be living on as eternal robotic computer Gods, so maybe that's what he means?

So if I say, "that's a lie" then when humans live past 200 years I'll be remembered as the person who was smarter than Stephen Hawking?

"And I just sign my name right here and that's it? There has to be some sort of catch."

-Nope, smartest person alive. All you have to do is sign right here.-

I believe this totally, they have polluted our air, water and all our other resources? What did they exspect, everything to last forever. All Native American's knew that this would happen the day that they Europeans came here taking and using all the natural resources for personal gain and exploiting and killing everything in site? Didn't they think that all this would end eventually??? We warned them numerous time's to no avail? Maybe they will listen now, but it's too late for that!

The COMEDY section? Really?
Oh well I guess it's just funny 'cause most of us won't actually be here.
I'm kinda grateful that he didn't say 2012 'cause I don't want the world to end right after I graduate from freakin' college.

hope he's right...because it won't be in my time.

haha.. the selfish are killing the planet. the people who always want more! isn't that why columbus traveled here?? or wait they got lost on the way to india or some ishh.. but still!! greedy muh fuggzzz

Can't say I really care. I'll be dead in 200 years no matter what.

i think calgarc is right, the corporations will kill us before any one else.. i mean everything is corporate these days, the good ol' mom and pop stuff is gone, the future will see army also being corporate and also being offshored or outsourced.. army will no longer be federal more like.. consultants.. we are already seeing this with black water and other companies workingi n iraq and afghanistan.. stephan hawking is a great scientist.. i wud believe him..

Well, we HAVE given Earth all the plastic it needs.

ayipis:

The Sad fact, It's not hard to survive, it's hard to live :\

how many of yoy guys knows how to swim???start a fire???how many can survive in the wild without the help pf some fancy REI equipment??

how many of you guys can survive a tragic event without having to RELY on the government to send you an RV and a credit card??

a few years back in California, some smart and concerned liberal declared that Physical Education is unfair to some kids who are a bit rotund...play ground games are too rough on those few "delicate" kids...so we were debating if they should phase it out..we managed to successfully make ourselves weaker

..the rule of the jungle...

yeap..we are dead..

200 years ago people fought to survive..200 years from now people whine themselves to extinction..

maybe we need an awareness movie..lets get oliver stone

better yet we should get the DNC now to pass a law banning extinction..making it a hate crime to even talk about it..

people..you guys got all the same characteristics as our forefathers..which fought everything to survive...one thing they had was.......the idea of FAITH..

I think the human race as we know it will go extinct. I don't know about in 200 years though. Maybe 201, 202, 237.

Right, he said "face extinction". That doesnt mean we will become extinct. it means we will faced with the possibility depending on our choices.

And stop saying well destroy another planet if we go to it. Sometimes a new slate is the for the best, well know how to care and maintain another planet after studying it.

First his statement that aliens would be violent, and now this.
It sounds like he is getting grumpy.

I think the absent of Love will be the killer of us all :|

The Kepler space probe has uncovered 700 plus potential new planets along with a number of new solar systems.
Perhaps not the Kepler space probe, but future space telescopes are statistically bound to discover perhaps hundreds of earth type planets within the next 10 to 50 year. Think of the psychological effect on the human mind, knowing that hundreds of new homes are waiting right up there in the sky. I believe the excitement of would be Space Pioneers will overwhelm our desire to go to the stars. I believe we will not only go there, but run there! We can do this, we have collective intelligence after all and our near future artificial intelligence self aware computers (try in 15 years) will help us find a way. If we can survive over Stephen Hawking’s 200 years, we will be on our way. I only wish I could join them.

50 bucks the corporations kill us first...

Eh, people said this when Genghis Khan conquered China. Looks like even Hawking underestimates humans; you give a human a spaceship and a lightsaber, he will become a conquerer.

200 years ago, Napoleon was conquering Europe, and the War of 1812 was still two years away. No one back then could have foreseen the world of 2010. Even twenty years is difficult to predict: who in 1990, aside from maybe some industry insiders, could have predicted the impact of the Internet? Considering that Prof. Hawking put the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 instead of 1962 (unless he was misquoted in the piece), I'd be as leery of his predictions as of his history: we might have 201 years left as a species!

Good riddance. We have proved that we do not deserve this planet, much less the Cosmos.

Hawking is one of the world's premiere scientists, but you've got to pick your brain over some of the recent comments he's made. Remember the one about alien life? Comments like that just seem to eschew the logic that he's known for. Why would a presumably million-year old civilization bother to conquer and enslave us? You'd have to assume that any race THAT mature would have worked out all of its internal problems before venturing into the stars. It'd probably exist in a completely different dimension anyway.

This actually isn't that hard to believe

Its 2012 stupid!

Aw, Hawking is just really upset that NASA is falling apart. He wants to scare everybody so he can see a revival of space exploration before his time is up

200 years?!?!?!?!?! Ok good, I've got time.

Currently, I don't really care about what Mr. Hawking has to say unless I can see a conclusive basis for that prediction.

If you read further in the post of the link, the post says that Hawking recommends we inhabit another planet to save the human race. That's a pretty idiotic recommendation. If humans are just as negligible of the environment there as they are here, then humans will be doomed for destruction there as well. The solution is to learn how to properly take care of our environment. The solution is not to continuously destroy other environments until there are none left.