Stephen Hawkings Believes We Must Move to Other Planets or Die
Professor Stephen Hawking believes we will reach other planets as settlers “in the next hundred years”. And he reckons starships will eventually take “just a few years” to get us to planets that can be colonised. The scientist believes we face extinction from threats including pollution and climate change unless we go to new homes like Proxima b – 4.2 light years away and the nearest habitable planet.
In a documentary tonight, he says: “I have no doubt we will eventually find ways of crossing the immense distances of space in just a few years.
“One of our great strengths is embracing new ideas and evolving them into cutting-edge technologies. Our ingenuity will get us to Proxima b.”
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