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I don't really beleive in psychic abilities, but I DO believe in Professor Hawking. I suspect that he is warning us based on the current politcal, economic, and environmental situations. Nuclear war is still very much possible. Most scientists worth their salt say that global climate change (formerly called global warming) is changing our atmosphere in ways that may be irreperable in our lifetimes. The seperation of the few wealthy and the many poor is continuing at an accelerated rate. Food, clean water, and electricity are proving to be unable to keep up with the human population of the earth. Steven Hawking is simply stating the obvious: things look pretty grim, and if nothing is done to fix it, we'll all be screwed. I tend to agree, though I find it a bit alarmist. I think we're much more likely to fix the problems previously mentioned than to colonize space. Space is a prety sary place. I doubt we have the finances, inferstructure, or even technology to truely colonize the Moon, Mars, or some nearby planetoid.
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