posted December 30, 2017 05:29 PM            

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Stephen Hawking is known for his groundbreaking achievements in science, but many do not realize that the physicist is also recognized for making predictions about the future of humanity and Earth. This year the Oxford professor made some of the most unusual predictions to date, some of which may put a slight damper on your New Year’s festivities.

We Only Have 100 Years Left On Earth

Thanks to modern day health care, 100 years is nearly a lifetime, but in May, Hawking proposed that this is how long humans have left on Earth, Wired reported. This is a stark shift backward from the 1,000 years time limit that Hawking had predicted in 2016.

According to Hawking in his BBC science series, Tomorrow’s World, climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth are to blame for the new century-long doomsday clock.

Humans Have To Colonize Another Planet ASAP

In a BBC documentary released earlier this year, titled Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth, the physicist explained his prediction that soon the human species will have to leave Earth and repopulate somewhere else in the universe, either on a spacecraft or on another planet. The physicist warned that if humans don’t become a multi-planetary species and settle on other worlds, our species could die out within the next century.

Hawking first proposed this grim prediction in 2016, but revisited it again this year with supporting facts on why he believes the prediction could actually come true.

“Although the chance of a disaster on planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, becoming a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” explained Hawking in the documentary, Weather.com reported.

Earth Will Glow Red And Become As Hot As Venus

In July, Hawking told the BBC that humanity is at a “tipping point” where global warming would become so bad that Earth will “become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius, and raining sulfuric acid.”

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun, and, as far as scientists are concerned, life there is impossible. Hawking also predicted that humanity’s natural greed would impede us from being able to properly address this problem, and that inevitable our best bet is to leave Earth completely.

By 2600, Earth Will Not Be Able To Keep Up With Population Growth

In November of this year, at a Tencent WE Summit, an annual forum where top scientists and professionals gather to share ideas on science and technology, Hawking predicted that due to the increasing human population, by 2600 the world’s electricity consumption will make our once blue planet glow fire-red, Geek Wire reported. According to Hawking, the global population has been doubling every 40 years, and our planet can only take so much.

“This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium,” explained Hawking, Geek Wire reported. "By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.”

AI Will Replace Humans And Take Over The World

In 2017, Hawking was quite vocal with his concerns regarding robots and artificial intelligence. In November, Hawking explained he believes that AI will reach a point where it will ultimately become a completely new form of life that will outperform and eventually replace humans, CNBC reported.

"I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself,” Hawking told Wired.

Trump Will Push Earth Over The Brink

Hawking is not a fan of the U.S. President Donald Trump, and earlier this year commented that the president’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change, The BBC reported.

The Paris climate agreement is an international consensus of nearly 200 countries to cut greenhouse emission in an effort to halt climate change. According to Hawking, Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of this deal could be the final step towards drastic climate problems that may have serious effects on all life on Earth.

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posted December 30, 2017 09:49 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Hawking is a perfect example of when one's political leanings override all rationality.

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posted December 31, 2017 10:09 AM            

That is not said from a political leaning but experience for the past colder than usual past year & 1/2.

Climate change is a given but drastic global warming? Planet hopping and sulpheric rain?

Bah, if so, It`s Trumps fault

posted January 01, 2018 02:42 AM            

Category 5 Storms were maximum in decades if seen globally, and so is variation in Ocean Current temperature.

There is a greater danger than emission of CO2 and that is the emission from Diesel Vehicles and Power plants, it is a particulate material that destroys lungs and is actually carcinogenic, as bad as smoking packs of cigarettes a day. Unfiltered.

Thus, whether people believe or not in Climate Change, all kinds of fossil fuel burning does need to stop if present day Human Population has to be sustained. However, if Gaia is fed up of the Selfish Planet Haters, then there will be more and more support for the steps taken to eliminate a few billion from the planet at a rapid pace. This is the year of reckoning about that possibility. Consider 2018 to be the year where we sample a bit of the 7th Trumpet and the 4th Horseman on the Pale Horse....

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posted January 02, 2018 02:35 PM            

escaping And colonizing to reproduce the same **** somewhere else ?

There has to be another possibility.

posted January 02, 2018 03:35 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
I`ll leave it to the Hawkings of this world to sort it out and in the meantime, global warming.... bwahaahaaa.

That is not said from a political leaning but experience for the past colder than usual past year & 1/2.

Climate change is a given but drastic global warming? Planet hopping and sulpheric rain?

Bah, if so, It`s Trumps fault

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posted January 02, 2018 04:01 PM            

Time scale are different

posted January 03, 2018 12:50 AM            

If the super genius is wrong and we don’t change our ways then whatever doesn’t matter

If the super genius is wrong and we do change anyway then we have a cleaner air and fun space colonies to visit. I guess some oil and coal people will lose jobs. There willl be other jobs in clean energy.

If the super genius is right and we don’t change everyone dies

The way I think about things is in risk benefit anayalysis. The risks of doing what the super genius says if he is wrong is possibly losing some jobs in coal and oil. The the risk of not doing what he says is everyone dies.

posted January 07, 2018 11:50 PM            

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Originally posted by pire:
Global warming doesn't equal weather forecast.

Time scale are different

It is a misleading argument

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I didn't say that, but it is foolish to assume that global warming is still a real concern when we've had some of the coldest temperatures since the early 1900s. Yeah, sure, there's the remote possibility that the build up of greenhouse gases has resulted in a change in climate and that we're headed for an Ice Age, but that's very, very unlikely given that Ice Ages have occurred for MILLIONS of years prior to humans populating this planet and will likely continue to occur no matter what we do.

posted January 08, 2018 11:17 PM            

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Originally posted by StubbornVirgo:
I didn't say that, but it is foolish to assume that global warming is still a real concern when we've had some of the coldest temperatures since the early 1900s. Yeah, sure, there's the remote possibility that the build up of greenhouse gases has resulted in a change in climate and that we're headed for an Ice Age, but that's very, very unlikely given that Ice Ages have occurred for MILLIONS of years prior to humans populating this planet and will likely continue to occur no matter what we do.

What seems like common sense or obvious to you guys seems foolish to me. It seems like common sense to me to look at what has already occurred and and base future predictions off of that (since it is reliable and documented and whatnot), but hey, why do that when we have someone spewing fear mongering into the media like a fountain of lies to listen to?

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Puting words one after another may create a sentence but not necessarily a meaning.

moreover, discussing climate dhange with a person who doesn't believe in it is like a discussion about god between an atheist and a believer. Useless.

posted January 09, 2018 12:45 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Well-said, SV! I can add nothing more to your wise analysis.

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posted January 09, 2018 04:17 AM            

It is in action, and it is not reversable. Every countries except the US are going forward in that direction, researching, investing, regulating..

I am no expert in economy, I won't give you all the mecanism but what is sure from a political point of view is that by exiting the Paris agreement, Trump took the US out of the leading role on the matter, leaving it to china.

Trump isolates the US but the detriment isn't for the rest of the world, but for the US itself. Unfortunately, he mislead, or was mislead, to believe that the US are being fooled, used, etc... when that is exactly what the NEGATIVE intervention of the US was doing and seen as soing abroad, along with a lot of POSITIVE intervention ( influence is a better word may be) that only a democratic and liberal power could promote.

Climate change is an hoax for the climate sceptics, and I think there is no reading that can make one see it. I am not a scientist. I don't have reserached facts, but they do. The insurances business is going to change the mind of the most sceptic that going renewable is the best, or only option.

posted January 09, 2018 06:34 AM            

Hydrogen engines exist and work, even engine with water, why do you think we still use oil ?