The notorius paralyzed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ,who proved the first of many singularity theorems,one of the co-founders of the laws of the black hole mechanics,is warning the human kind : ”I see great dangers for the human race. There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. The Cuban missile crisis in 1963 was one of these “
and he continues :
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth, are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.”
There is a clear analogy between the situation of the world today and the Maya extinction more than 1000 years ago.Despise these irrefutable facts the great scientist is still optimistic,but we have to go beyond the selfish and aggressive instincts that were a survival advantage in the past and focus all as one in the exploration and the conquering of space :
“I believe that the long term future of the human race must be in space. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.”
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