Stephen Hawking beliefs on alternatives for human existence

The first assumption is that humanity is worth saving.The second is that Stephen Hawking is a genius.So, if it takes a genius to suggest that the human race is driving itself to extinction, Stephen Hawking has recently suggested just that. The Cambridge University professor was presenting a lecture earlier this month when he rather pessimistically mused that we humans are really making a mess of things.“Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” he said. Humans seem to be exacerbating the problem by engineering preventable crises such as climate change and nuclear war. Hawking believes that colonizing distant planets and stars is the answer to preserving the human race if a major disaster was to raze Earth.The third assumption is that all previous, generally accepted assumptions are untrue. Of course, Stephen Hawking is a globally acclaimed astrophysicist, but it seems to me that he’s been watching far too many Stanley Kubrick movies instead of focusing on what he has devoted his entire life to — hard science.