It's time to get the hell off planet Earth
Prof Hawking said that the goal would re-ignite the space programme and give humanity a sense of objective. The project would see a tiny, fully functional probe attached to a vast, lightweight light sail that is propelled at a fifth the speed of light using an Earth-based laser array that hits the sail with tens of gigawatts of power. Prof Hawking said: "The Earth is under threat from so many areas that it is hard for me to be positive". The threats are too big and too numerous", he said, according to the Evening Express "Our physical resources are being drained at an alarming rate. It could be climate change, a disease epidemic, nuclear war, an enormous asteroid strike or some other catastrophic series of events that could lead to our downfall, but Hawking doesn't see much hope for our future on this planet. Newburgh Gazette:
http://newburghgazette.com/2017/06/21/stephen-hawking-i-am-convinced-that-humans-need-to-leave/
http://www.wisdom-path.net/2017/05/stephen-hawking-warns-that-we-have-to_23.html
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