Tales from the Tabs
‘Human race ‘must colonise space or face extinction’, warns Stephen Hawking’
Well then – who’s up for it? Given that we were unfortunately on the receiving end of colonialism the first time around, who would give to try a little interplanetary conquering? In an interview with the website Big Think covered by the Daily Mail, astrophysicist Hawking said that he sees ‘great danger’ for the human race, citing the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 as an example of our species’ sometimes precarious position.
Hawking called himself an optimist during the wide-ranging interview, stating ‘if we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries our species should be safe as we spread into space.’
‘Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain on planet Earth but tospread into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last 100 years but if we want to continue beyond the next 100 years our future is in space.’
