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Originally Posted by troutman

Stephen Hawking believes we have maybe 1,000 years left

http://nypost.com/2016/11/16/stephen...00-years-left/

“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Hawking said Tuesday during a talk at Britain’s Oxford University Union.

"Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years," Hawking said in the speech,"By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race."

Humans are a product of planet earth, we are fragile and don't belong nor can we survive in deep space long enough to reach other star systems even if future propulsion technologies go very fast.

Maybe I'm skeptic but unless we humans want to live on a dead planet (Mars) in a glass hut I see it that we eventually will die out on our own beautiful home. Possibly in a 100 million years a future earth life form will show off our fossils in museums.

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Earth always perseveres. It's inhabitants not always. We can barely predict the weather more than a few days in advance so predicting something 1000 years away is kind of silly.

To be fair, Hawking is talking about human survival on planet earth, not the earth's survival.