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https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-hawking-issues-dire-warning-030025333.html

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has issued yet another warning for Earth and this time, he says we have less than 600 years before the Earth turns into a sizzling fireball.

Hawking says that if we don’t leave Earth soon, overpopulation will increase energy consumption and pretty much kill us all.

SEE ALSO: Stephen Hawking: Robots will replace humans completely

But Hawking has a plan. Speaking at the Tencent WE Summit in Beijing, Hawking appealed to investors to back his plans to travel to Alpha Centauri. At around 4 light-years away, it’s the closest star system to our sun.

The venture is called Breakthrough Starshot and it would use a tiny spacecraft that travels at the speed of light.

Such a system could reach Mars in less than an hour, or reach Pluto in days, pass Voyager in under a week and reach Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years.”

"Maybe if all goes well, sometime a little after the middle of the century, we'll have our first picture of another planet that may be life-bearing orbiting the nearest star," Pete Worden, the former head at NASA’s AMES Research Center and Starshot Breakthrough director, said at the summit.

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Do you really think we will not blow this planet up with nukes WAY before 600 years from now?


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i don't think we will.

i think a few will be dropped at some point, but i think we avoid a nuclear holocaust scenario.


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Good thing I don't plan on living 700+ years.


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Hawkings has been wrong a lot over the years, so there is that.

Then you must consider the Technology advances we will have over the next 600 years to fix any problems that come up.

Meh.

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Predictions like this are useless because nobody alive or born to anyone alive will be affected. It's like telling people in the 1500s not to kill each other over food because one day there would be enough to go around.

I would have used religion instead of food above, but we are still killing over religions.

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I would have used religion instead of food above, but we are still killing over religions.


There is only one religion doing all the killing these days.
It used to be several.

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Christians don't kill anyone? GMAB

That's the most ridiculous statement you've ever made, and that says a ton.

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consider the Technology advances we will have over the next 600 years to fix any problems that come up.


Our leaders need to believe in the science first. We're so screwed!


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Christians don't kill anyone? GMAB

That's the most ridiculous statement you've ever made, and that says a ton.


Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?


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Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?



51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.

80-110 deaths per year = Thousands killed by mostly Christians.


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Well yeah, but at least those aren't acts of terrorism.


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Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?



51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.

80-110 deaths per year = Thousands killed by mostly Christians.


And probably half of them or better had mental illness.

That is such a weak answer to, "what Christian Terrorist group is killing thousands of people", that you should have just run for the exit like OCD did instead of trying to answer the question. rolleyes

But there are plenty of Terrorist groups killing thousands in the name of religion...

Al qaeda
ISIS
Boko Haram
Haqqani Network
Kataib Hezbollah

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Originally Posted By: PerfectSpiral
Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING


Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?



51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.

80-110 deaths per year = Thousands killed by mostly Christians.


I don't doubt those statistics. But are the people doing these horrendous acts on behalf of their radical religious beliefs or do they just happen to affiliate with Christianity?

My point-- Is Christianity the main driving force behind why they are compelled to kill? Or is it something else?



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51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.


Of course this is misleading and irrelevant.

"Mass shootings" constitute a statistically insignificant proportion of all murders in the U.S.

I think it's ~ 15,000 murders per year. Or on average ~ 45 per day.

Every day. Today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, tomorrow and the next day.

45 murders every day. And it's been going on for years.

1600+ people who woke-up this morning will be murdered before Christmas next month.

About half these murders are by African Americans.

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Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING


Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?



51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.

80-110 deaths per year = Thousands killed by mostly Christians.


And probably half of them or better had mental illness.

That is such a weak answer to, "what Christian Terrorist group is killing thousands of people", that you should have just run for the exit like OCD did instead of trying to answer the question. rolleyes

But there are plenty of Terrorist groups killing thousands in the name of religion...

Al qaeda
ISIS
Boko Haram
Haqqani Network
Kataib Hezbollah


Hold on hombre, having a life away from the board is not running for the exit! You troll.

As for an answer, let's start with the US Military and it's wars for profit around the globe. As a Christian country with Christian leaders I would call that a Christian Army. And while you don't see how our government oppresses other countries and religions for our gain, those that aren't blind or delusional do.

Most of the islamic nutjobs are at war with the US just because we invaded their homelands and got hundreds of thousands killed in wars based on political lies! This is very similar to the crusades of old.

Muslim killings, gay killings, mass shootings, and other hate crimes are commited everyday here in the good old USA, mostly by Christians and mostly due to their beliefs. Wake up.

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I’ll remember this next time a thread on God flares up and you say we aren’t a Christian nation and no where in our founding documents does it say that we are.


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I’ll remember this next time a thread on God flares up and you say we aren’t a Christian nation and no where in our founding documents does it say that we are.



We are not technically but our population is roughly 70% Christian and high ranking officials are often ostracized if found to not be Christian. For instance 'Obama is a Muslim' as if that automatically makes him bad.

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Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING


Why, who are Christians killing off? What army does the Pope supply? Billy Graham's Bullies? Where is the Christian religion slaughtering people?

What vast Christian armies or Terrorist organization based on Christianity are out there killing people by the thousands?



51% of all mass shooters in the US have been White. Mostly Christians. 15% Black. Mostly Christian. 7% Latino. Mostly Christians. 7% Asian. Some Christians. 3% Native American mostly Christians.

80-110 deaths per year = Thousands killed by mostly Christians.


And probably half of them or better had mental illness.

That is such a weak answer to, "what Christian Terrorist group is killing thousands of people", that you should have just run for the exit like OCD did instead of trying to answer the question. rolleyes

But there are plenty of Terrorist groups killing thousands in the name of religion...

Al qaeda
ISIS
Boko Haram
Haqqani Network
Kataib Hezbollah


Hold on hombre, having a life away from the board is not running for the exit! You troll.

As for an answer, let's start with the US Military and it's wars for profit around the globe. As a Christian country with Christian leaders I would call that a Christian Army. And while you don't see how our government oppresses other countries and religions for our gain, those that aren't blind or delusional do.

Most of the islamic nutjobs are at war with the US just because we invaded their homelands and got hundreds of thousands killed in wars based on political lies! This is very similar to the crusades of old.

Muslim killings, gay killings, mass shootings, and other hate crimes are commited everyday here in the good old USA, mostly by Christians and mostly due to their beliefs. Wake up.


I can understand how some posts from 40 can elicit emotions, but, man, this is quite a stretch at the very least. Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but it's definitely off, and you're usually a well-reasoned poster.


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Hawking says that if we don’t leave Earth soon, overpopulation will increase energy consumption and pretty much kill us all.


Well, yeah. This is not a revelation.

World population is doubling all the time. Especially people who contribute very little to humanity. Except more hungry babies.

Maybe Hawking's statement will carry some weight. But I doubt it.

"How can you send a man to Mars when there's starving babies?"

I think Earth is just a big petri dish.

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