CNN video Stephen Hawking interview Stephen Hawking, scientist and author of A Brief History of Time, tells an interviewer of his fears for the human race, saying that if we can manage our problems well enough to get through the next two centuries, the species will survive. The video includes images from his 2007 zero gravity flight, where he says how wonderful it is to be out of a wheelchair for the first time in 40 years.

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 9 October 2008 at 7:34 | permalink
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3 Responses to “Stephen Hawking says next 2 centuries critical”

  1. liam white Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Stephen Hawking is not some Reverential God to be awed, hes been wrong about a lot of things. Lets stay objective. Hes even changing tack about previous theories to position himself for the fact he is wrong. Hes starting to realise that the universe is a malleable substance where these laws of physics and quantum physics are turned on their head from time to time. Lets not start another RELIGION with Stephen Hawking as its Pope. The man is just that ….. a fallible creature, capable of error in his thinking. I am not easily impressed. I accept that man can easily beguile himself about the enormity of what he knows, and yet this enormous knowledge we have amassed, may be, our very undoing. You see, our enormous knowledge is very small by comparison to what we don’t know. Look around at the world today at this moment …….. something is collapsing - not just economically, socially, politically and scientifically - an equation is manifesting itself, that defies our arrogant suppositions. Mr Hawkins …. just tell the truth, admit your fallibility first before prophesying outcomes of the future. After all, your theories about the universe are crumbling too.

  2. Mike Gibbons Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 5:34 am

    Stephen Hawkins is a moron. Does anyone in there right mind really think that the financial meltdown is more significant than the fall of the roman Empire, the black plague, the discovery of the new world. Does anyone seriously believe that we are going to fly off to an un-named planet in an undiscvered galaxy and live happily ever after because Stephen Hawkins says so.Please please somebdy tell me that nobody is that stupid. Alcoholics call that a “geographic” thet think that if they move, physically, emotional, relationship, job etc etc their problems aill go away. WE ARE THE F—–G PROBLEM. Somebody wake that A—— up and tell hinm to return all his honorary degrees and just shut up.
    Folks, this is it. The damn Martians aren’t going to come and save us. We aren’t going to find the perfect planet. If there is a problem here,it is us.

  3. Ellen Wallace Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    A reminder that we welcome strong opinions, but while we don’t as a rule edit comments, we will if the language is not what we think is acceptable use in your grandmother’s living room.

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