ABSTRACT:

Physicist Stephen Hawking in 2017 reasserted his view that humans must become an interstellar species in the near future or risk "being annihilated". "The Earth is under threat from so many areas that it is difficult for me to be positive," the professor said in a speech given via video link to the Starmus science conference in Trondheim, Norway. Hawking has previously predicted that climate change, epidemics, and population growth all pose major threats to our survival on Earth. In November of 2016, he said humans would need to find a new planet within the next thousand years.

In May 2017, he shortened that prediction to 100 years.

"It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth" Hawking said. "To stay risks being annihilated."With almost every human has a responsibility for the boundaries of how human civilizations survive and thrive - Architects and designers are no different. We need to push into the sky as soon as we can with whatever we have to make sure we expand before we go extinct.

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