The POP-EXPOSE ‘Time for a New Home Planet’ By Mitchell Smith!
Stephen Hawking stated earlier this month that humans must colonize a new planet within 100 years or the human race faces the threat of extinction. So should we start looking to populate new planets or do we just need to clean up the one we have? The Earth has always had it’s own little cubby hole in the universe, somewhat protected from any major destruction, but Hawking says that our planet has sidestepped the evil clutches of space for long enough. The luck is going to run out and we are do for a large natural disaster in the form of an asteroid. This plus the constant threat of mass terrorist attacks, overpopulation, and/or pollution could lead to a real life” Lord of the Flies” Apocalypse.
Has Hawking gone completely mad or is he just so far advanced that he sees what most humans would probably laugh at. The human population has grown immensely in the past several decades do to better health care and less war. Yes less war. Over the past several hundred years the human race has been thinned out by our own greed for material and land. Wars where tragic have been a way of controlling the human population. Now a days especially with modern technology have created more of a Star Wars type long range robotic war with minimal casualties. The health care in the world is much better then just 10 years ago, especially better then 50 and 100 + years ago and the survival rate for newborns and senior citizens has sky rocketed. So now the only question is how are we going to transport all of these people off this planet to another one. So if our planet gives up working much like most of the pancreases in the USA, would we be able to recolonize, or would the human race simple die in transition. Right now non of our near by planets can support life as we know it.
Traveling to the next planet that could act as a new home, would take more years than most humans could survive. So we would probably be like a fleet from ‘Battlestar Galactica‘, a rag tag fleet floating through space to find a new habitat, but we most likely wouldn’t make it there. It would be our grandkids or great grandkids, or maybe or great, great grandkids that would have to try and figure out how to live on a planet and not on a space ship. So is Hawking on to something or is he just trying to scare the human race to wake up and smell the coffee. In the end who know how close we could be though. It wasn’t long ago people believed the planet was flat and there was no idea that there was a whole knew world out there populated and ready to be taken over.
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