{"id":15857,"date":"2017-05-12T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=300633"},"modified":"2017-05-15T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:04:02","slug":"humanity-must-populate-a-new-planet-within-100-years-warns-hawking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/05\/12\/humanity-must-populate-a-new-planet-within-100-years-warns-hawking\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity must populate a new planet within 100 years, warns Stephen Hawking, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_300636\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 154px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; float: left;\"><img class=\" wp-image-300636\" title=\"Stephen Hawking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Stephen-Hawking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: www.hawking.org.uk)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive,&#8221; famed physicist Stephen Hawking, PhD says in &#8220;Expedition New Earth&#8221;<em> <\/em><em>&#8212; <\/em>a documentary that debuts this summer as part of the BBC&#8217;s forthcoming <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/mediapacks\/tomorrows-world\/television\" >Tomorrow\u2019s World<\/a><\/em>\u00a0TV series.<\/p>\n<p>He cites &#8220;climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth&#8221; as reasons to leave.<\/p>\n<p>That 100 figure is dramatically lower that Hawking&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/732606\/Stephen-Hawking-end-of-the-world\" >previous warning<\/a> of 1,000 years in a speech November 15, 2016 at Oxford Union, according to the London-based <em>Express<\/em> newspaper. &#8220;We must continue to go into space for the future of humanity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In an afterword to a 2016 book titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-make-a-spaceship-a-band-of-renegades-an-epic-race-and-the-birth-of-private-spaceflight\" ><em>How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight<\/em><\/a> by journalist Julian Guthrie, Hawking said he believes that &#8220;life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn&#8217;t go to space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawking has also warned about the risks of artificial intelligence and an alien encounter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;The human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive,&rdquo; famed physicist Stephen Hawking, PhD says in &ldquo;Expedition New Earth&rdquo; &mdash; a documentary that debuts this summer as part of the BBC&rsquo;s forthcoming Tomorrow&rsquo;s World&nbsp;TV series. He cites &ldquo;climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth&rdquo; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}