Abandon Ship!

Astronomer Stephen Hawking is unquestionably a brilliant guy. When he launches out into philosophy and religion, though, he is walking on thinner ice. Take his statement yesterday that mankind's hope lies in spreading out to the stars so that nuclear war and other calamities don't annihilate us here on earth.

The only difficulty that I can think of with this proposition is that the problem is inside us and wherever we go, we will take it with us. Even assuming that we can reach the stars, if there are other civilizations out there, I can't imagine that they would take kindly to the new neighbors blowing up the neighborhood! A good metaphor would be a spreading forest fire and my guess is the locals will stamp it out before it ever really gets started. Alas Dr. Hawking, I fear our future is here, for better or worse.

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