Recently I read an article dealing with the thoughts of atheist physicist Steven Hawking and how he advocated the expansion of the human race to relocate on other planets. I totally agree with Hawking for several points. First, it is totally correct to say that we have inefficient resources here left on planet earth. Within the next 100 years or so, resources will rocket to an all-time low and we will have to turn to something and somewhere else. Second, the human population is growing at an astronomical rate and it would be to our advantage to use some more planets to localize more humans. Countries such as China have a law on having too many children, so why not throw those kids to Mars. But in all seriousness, localizing humans on other planets could become a huge advantage in the near future. Steven Hawking’s was quoted in the article saying, “Our Genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.” This is totally true with humans; we build stuff that in time could hurt our future. For example the more and more we build cars; the more people drive those cars and put harmful gases in the atmosphere. Global warming is a huge deal on planet earth and it is caused mostly by the selfish human beings building things that they don’t think will affect us in the long run. There also could be resources on other planets that could help us live a longer and better life. We just need to advance our technologies here on earth and explore other planets in our solar system, seeing what they have to offer us. I believe if we do this, we could have a long and more stable life for all of mankind. All in all, I believe and advocate everything that Steven Hawking was saying in this article.
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