I see great dangers for the human race: Hawking
- added October 12, 2008
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- Vierotchka
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CNN's Becky Anderson has a rare interview with Professor Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking: 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. The frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future. We shall need great care and judgment to negotiate them all successfully. But I'm an optimist.
Becky Anderson: Do humans have a moral obligation to learn about space?
Stephen Hawking: I don't think the human race has a moral obligation to learn about space, but it would be foolish and shortsighted not to do so. It may hold the key to our survival."
Becky Anderson: What expectations do you have of the space flight you hope to be on next year?
Stephen Hawking: The Zero G flight last year was wonderful. After 40 years in a wheelchair, it was so good to be floating free. But the flight was just a warm up for space. The real thing should be much better, and last much longer.
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For the human race or from it?
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- ChristmasAsen
- 1 month ago
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Just seeing him out of the wheelchair was a beautiful thing.
He's had nothing but time to think about our situation so, we had all, damn well, better listen to him.
We, as a global community, need to explore other, more otherwordly, options. -
Wow, he must have had one hell of a thrill. Hey Steve, I sell vacation packages and one of the trips I sell is called Zero G. I think you would like it. Hit me up on my blog and I will give you rack rates homie!
And by the way, I can hook you up with a more up to date speech mechanism too at no extra charge lol
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Once BCI (brain-computer interface) is perfected Hawking will most likely become a cyber-god...
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 1 month ago
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I heard he designed his own computer system for speech. Nice offers maasanova.
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- uppityprogressive
- 1 month ago
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if this man says we need to do something about the state of the human race
then it must be looked into in depth-
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- cheakywillie
- 1 month ago
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Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe
Very interesting video and one more interesting thing about Stephen Hawking.... he was born on January 8 1942.....300 years after the death of Galileo
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- dissimulator
- 1 month ago
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Dangers are very far in terms of Religion.... when science is being applied, they always see the dangers...
But mystery is still there.... Faith has the biggest part in this problem.... science is just used to make a concrete evidence while Faith can move even mountains.
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He should definitely be out of his chair, for sure but nobody tells us what he has directly. Good for him. I am a rude bitch. Watch this world fall apart for something we "should be watching". Thanks for wasting my time. I want a cigarette. NOW! You people stress me out!
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not to sound like a jerk but i think we have more pressing matters than colonization of an enviornment we cant hope to touch in our lifetime. sure we've started to put out feelers in space, and we should definitely monitor it, but i think that the oceans deserve more attention at the moment. who are we to ignore our own planet for the sake of space? if we master our oceans, wont we be better prepared for space travel? we could perfect self contained enviornments, spaceworthy craft and such without ever leaving the atmosphere. i think we need to know what to do here before we begin messing up the outer cosmos. i'm no hawking, but i think we have a way to go here on earth before we try to conquer space. i'm not saying that we should ignore space, but i think we're missing the point if we don't fix ourselves first.
i'm giving this a 15% or less chance of seeing airtime.
we spend billions upon billions on space every year but we cant seem to spare any change for ecology, or even just a piss poor effort at ending world hunger. and what do we get? a mars rover that's a glorified rc car. the budget of the mars rover could have fed every hungry person on earth. but instead we got a closer look at something we've been watching with advanced telescopes for years. fire back please. but my asshole stepdad worked accounting for jpl so i know just about how much we dumped into that useless rc 90. about 4 billion. space travel would be great i'm sure, but it wont save us in time. -
it was nice to see him have fun in the zero G flight
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I beleieve the greatest threat to humans is not nuclear war but Global Warming and all the enviromental disasters that humanity and overpopulation has caused melting of glaciers and perma frost, methane gas , destuction of rainforests, etc. Unlike Hawkins I'm not optimistic at all. In order for us to save us from ourselves a mass united effort wld have to be undertaked by the majority of nations. Globally plastic bags and other plastic products need to stop being produced, CO2 levels need to be cut even if the U.S. complies which we don't it doesn't matter if China and India keeps building coal plants, buying more cars, producing more non-biodegradable trash and overpopulating the planet. Humans are very self destructive. We know what needs to be done yet we still don't do it.
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- marisa_bklyn
- 1 month ago
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i agree marisa nuclear war is not the biggest problem we face. our enviornment is a much greater threat. if we do nothing to defend it we might as well push the red button.
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Vierotchka, you have a very small faith... don't you wish to see a moving object in the sea against the flow of the waves of the sea?
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No doubt the man has a brilliant intellect- but it doen't take a genius to troubled times for the human race....
