Professor Hawking: Have You Gone Out of Your Mind?

By: John T Jones, Ph.D.

According to the AP, Dr. Stephen Hawking, author of the best seller A Brief History of Time, said in Hong Kong that, to survive, the human race must move to some other star system.

He predicted that the human race will in the immediate future, geology time-wise, be wiped out by “sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers not yet thought of.”

One he left out was a gigantic gamma ray burst as we had a few years back from an event that took place about 13 million light years away. Such an event can occur when two stars merge and form a black hole. It can also occur when a star has a magnetic change of state. The one described here gave off more light than all the stars in the sky.

Nobody noticed it on earth, it occurred so fast, but a satellite not only detected it but pointed to it to determine its location. It was reported that if the event had occurred only 6 light years away, we would have been fried. Read comments on this event at http://lofi.forum.physorg.com/Gamma-ray-attack_1231.html

And of course, we could have a big chunk of space stuff hit us. You know about the Arizona Meteor Crater, the Siberian Meteor, and the one that hit in the Gulf of Mexico and destroyed life here and there. We often read of dinosaur extinctions. They are fun to read about. Read about the dinosaur extinctions at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm

So, Dr. Hawking is right about the future of our planet. But should we really move to another planet in a different solar system to preserve the degenerate, war-loving, depraved, crocodilian human race?

Heaven forbid!

Anyway, what if we went to a new solar system, found a suitable planet for making war, and found dirt and water to germinate and grow plants from the seeds we carried with us? What makes anyone think that we would not have the same hazards there? We might just get in town and get blown away.

Besides, there might be nasty bugs to kill us just as on earth, and we wouldn’t know how to kill them. Also, the bugs we would bring along might devastate the local inhabitants. Of course if there were local inhabitants, we would have to kill them anyway or make them slaves.

Don’t buy any spaceship tickets!

Top scientists realize that space travel to other star systems is not in the cards for the near future. Dr. Alan Guth of MIT said, for example, that an underground base in Antarctica would be easier to build then a base on the moon.

Why would anyone want to do either unless we could mine diamonds and emeralds?

When the folks on this earth decide that killing each other is not good for the human race, and concentrate on resolving the issues that turn men back into crocodiles, then we should consider moving all out for Rigil Kentaurus. Rigil Kentaurus is very easy to find. It is the third brightest star in the sky.

If you were not thinking of Rigil Kentaurus, pick another close star at http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/nearest.html

Oh, you want to know more about Rigil Kentaurus? Well, go to http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/mainstars/SIT000488.htm

I’m leaving next week!

See you there!

The End

PS: My wife says that if we tried to go to another planet, “They would not let us in!”

copyright©2006 John T. Jones, Ph.D.

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John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."