news cnet.com: The renowned theoretical physicist urges humans to go into space in order to save ourselves.
by Dara Kerr
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
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Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s greatest physicists and cosmologists, is once again warning his fellow humans that our extinction is on the horizon unless we figure out a way to live in space.
Not known for conspiracy theories, Hawking’s rationale is that the Earth is far too delicate a planet to continue to withstand the barrage of human battering.