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| Dr. Stephen Hawking |
In a story by staffer Lindsay Dodgson filed today in Business Insider, it was reported that, according to renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, humanity only has about 1,000 years left before it becomes extinct.
Hawking made his disturbing prediction at a talk he was giving at the Oxford Union Debating Society.
Hawking, 74, said that extreme risks in the world, such as nuclear weapons, global climate change and mankind developing artificial intelligence and losing control of it are all likely causes for future destruction of the human race.
Hawking urges that humanity must leap beyond the "fragile" confines of earth and move out into other worlds, where pockets of humanity would survive even if there is a fatal cataclysm on our home planet.
In fact, the Kepler spacecraft was launched in 2009, with the mission of finding other worlds that may be habitable for mankind. Notably, this year, astronomers discovered a world they called Proxima B. The planet is roughly earth-sized and orbits the star Proxima Centauri's Goldilocks zone. It also lies about 4.2 light years away from earth.
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