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Hawkings does a backflip for the first time!

MeizMeiz Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Social Entropy++
Article:
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070427/NEWS02/704270347
Muffuggin Hawkings wrote:
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]"I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically-engineered virus or other dangers," Hawking said.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]"I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."[/FONT]
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Well from the image there, he looks like he's having a lot of fun.

He's also making an interesting prediction. Normally it wouldn't worry me although, in the recent years it has. Even more so now that this incredibly intelligent person is giving affirmation to the fact that we might fuck things up to the point where we can't fix it.

Just passing it along the only way I know how.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    You know, it's pretty bad that I put "zombie apocalypse" in front of "global warming" or "oil shortage" on list of potential earth threatening crises.

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I'm already sick of that pic. It's been posted in a couple different threads this last week.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

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  • Solid_Snake-aSolid_Snake-a Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    party at Neptune's

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

    Our collective consciousness utterly controlled by a singular Overmind.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Javen wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

    Our collective consciousness utterly controlled by a singular Overmind.

    It's getting close to that now, just give us a few generations and exposure to Vespene gas.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

    Our collective consciousness utterly controlled by a singular Overmind.

    It's getting close to that now, just give us a few generations and exposure to Vespene gas.

    That reminds me. Gotta go hit the mines.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

    You should write a novel about that so they then make it into a movie.

    You make the audience hate them, then at the end go "haha, it's actually you guys, assholes".

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    *BLUNG*

    YOU REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Dude, we don't require more Vespene gas.
    we need to SPAWN MOAR OVERLORDS!

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    So when can the human race start exploiting and annihilating primitive alien species? I cannot wait.

    It would be kind of funny if Humanity was the Zerg of the universe. Rapidly expanding our domain by consuming and destroying everything in our path.

    Goddamn Russians.

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Tell president Bush to start spawning more lurkers. We will need them to fend off the zealot attack.

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  • misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I love Hawking, and it's great that we finally got him to experience atleast a little bit of the space environment that he has been so dedicated to solving mathematically.

    In other news, humans act like viruses...

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.

    That would actually be totally awesome.

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.

    I like the way you think.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    and then elephants and whales come along and all the aliens' heads explode

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  • misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.

    But they'd likely be so super-intelligent that they'd be telekinetic and be able to reduce us to whimpers and suicide simply by speaking to us for a few moments using extremely vicious psychology, like Hannibal Lecter.

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    misbehavin wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.

    But they'd likely be so super-intelligent that they'd be telekinetic and be able to reduce us to whimpers and suicide simply by speaking to us for a few moments using extremely vicious psychology, like Hannibal Lecter.

    That is what the tinfoil hats are for!

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Yessss, humanity as superbadass invaders. Yeah, I can definitely see that as a possibility, like what if every other planet that could start and support life was this great utopia with very little temperature change and one huge landmass for the people, meaning its inhabitants were all peace-lovin hippies that got along great. Meanwhile, humanity was forced to adapt to the harsh landscape and geological upheavals of the ice age and volcanoes and stuff like that found in Earth. Life on Earth as one giant accident that doesn't know when to stop.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    that's pretty much the time we nuke the planet from orbit

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Hunter wrote: »
    If you think about it, how cool would it be if humans were the most warlike and brutish beings in the universe. Like our planet is the harshest environment out there that supports life and we are these raging bezerkers with super dense bone structure, strength, and speed. Everything else is slow, weak, and tiny.

    We invade a planet were the inhabitants are as big and strong as first graders. I don't know about you, but I could beat the shit out of like 20 little kids bare handed. I'd look like a terrifying demon to those people. It would be a power trip.


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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Or the other planet they never discovered oil or gunpowder so they are all trebuchetes and bows & arrows & shit

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    This has been posted like, a hundred times.

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    And it's Hawking god damnit.

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