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Famous English theoretical physicist and soothsayer from science Stephen Hawking said at a recent summit in Beijing that humanity less than six centuries to live.
According to the scientist, by 2600 the overpopulation of the Earth will reach critical level, and on our planet will be produced as much energy that the Earth will literally become a ball of fire.
However, the Briton notes that humanity has a chance to be saved. To do this, we need to intensively develop the global space industry and begin to populate other celestial bodies. Hawking advises future colonists to fly to exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri star system located at 4.37 light years from us. The physicist says that if you build a space light sail ship having a speed of 20% of speed of light, he will fly there in about 20 years. Another 5 years will be required so that a signal notifying earthlings of the successful arrival of the ship, reached our blue ball. Quite real numbers for so large-scale space project.
Meanwhile, Russian geophysicist Andrei Lyakhov does not really believe in Hawking forecast. According to our compatriot, humanity rather, it will be destroyed by a meteorite that fell to Earth. With all the energy generated on our planet is still not enough to stop the threat from space.
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However, Lyakhov also has opponents who believe that modern man is not able to predict the future even a hundred years in advance, because if in 1917 people were told about computers and space travel to the Moon and Mars, they would just did not believe it. And now the development of technical thought is in several times faster than in the last century, and what will happen at the beginning the next century, even hard to imagine. Talk about overpopulation of the planet, the energy of the future, and even about possible space disasters are also naive and even to some extent it’s crazy how to believe, for example, in a flat Earth, a war of robots, or matrix.
By the way, if you recall the words of some prophets, for example, Albert the Great, he “promised” that by 2280 will happen human contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (some oracles called even earlier). Return to the earth of the gods as the medieval seer wrote in his Alchemical Mysteries, radically change her life, and therefore, perhaps, we fly away it will not be necessary anywhere, or at least we will know how to equip a truly intelligent existence in its solar system …
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