Stephen Hawking Stresses the need to Evacuate

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OdinHades said:

I was once very passionate about colonizing space and stuff. But today, I just think humans are not worth to do it. They are just way too stupid and too concerned about themselves to ever conquer the galaxy or even the universe. Today we have the internet and science moves forward faster than ever. But what I'm seeing is people getting dumber and dumber. We have so much wisdom it's not even funny anymore. Hell, the other day we found a very good candidate for dark matter with neutralinos. But no one cares, instead people want to ban other people from their country because of their origins, deny climate change, scream for war and even believe the earth is flat. It's ridiculous. Now I get that isn't true for everybody. But a species that would be capable of conquering space shouldn't have such problems on any significant scale. At all.

Right now humans can barely control themselves to not chop each others heads off just because someone comes from elsewhere, has different beliefs or just another skin color. Just imagine what would happen when we got to other planets. There's this little tiny thing called evolution which will lead to people on Mars or whatever to not look like humans on earth anymore. Depending on gravity they can get smaller or taller, they can develop better or worse senses, hell they could even develop higher intellect or body mutations. With the insanely stupidity of the human race, that will just lead to more hate for no reason at all. Wouldn't end well I'm sure.

Whatever, there's this small chance that humanity will get better in the future, but I just don't believe in it. I don't see any need for humans to stay in this universe. Today I think of humans more as a stepstone for evolution. The whole purpose of humanity for the galaxy or the greater universe is at best to build machines that can conquer the universe and learn more about its origins and future. But humans themselves will disappear someday and never come back. And I don't think that's a bad thing.

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