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Hawking trolling the universe

I’ll say right up front I don’t expect this to make too much sense. It’s only a few thoughts from….well, somewhere.

All week I was thinking of something I read in a talk Stephen Hawking gave. So the subject was the need to explore space because we can probably only survive another thousand years on earth. Not the thing that stood out, but this was his basic stance:

“We must continue to go into space for humanity,” Hawking said. “We won’t survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet.”

Then came what stuck in my craw, or wherever. A week later it is still stuck.


Okay, no one likes to disagree with Hawking. Nobody likes to embarrass themselves. But come on…really, “we can control it”? I must have missed the theory that explains why X is Z or something.

I don’t know which part of his statement bothers me more. The first claims if we know how it operates, assuming we can, and the second is control it “in a way”. What way was he referring to? If we can understand it, would not mean we’ll make the right decisions. Should that be our objective, to control it?

There are so many variables there that I should just leave it alone. His statement stands for itself. I had lots of fun thinking it over for a week. It doesn’t sound any better now.

‘To understand the universe at the deepest level, we have to understand why is there something rather than nothing,’ Hawking said.

How many years have we been busy understanding how the earth operates and can we control that yet? As Dr Phil says…”and how’s that working out for you?”

And they like to call us conspiracy theorists.

Just a few years ago he declared philosophy dead because it has not kept up with modern science, particularly physics. So moving right along, aren’t we?

Gov condemns false prophecies

From dot Gov blog:

Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors





Videos from NASA debunking end-of-the-world rumors:
•The Science of Doomsday 2012
•12-21-2012: Just Another Day

While the government can address prophecy, it is less ambitious about solving a fiscal cliff crisis. That’s right people, don’t worry about all these fantastic claims and wild prophecies, its not a crisis till the government says it is. Besides, no one does dommsday scenarios like government does. They have the monopoly on that, so don’t try to infringe on their market. And it has quite enough to do dealing with them, or not.

Its government’s job to cause panic and fear. They need no stinking competition from Mayans, aliens, meteors, or squaches. Though it will give Al Gore something to complain about. Our use of fossil fuels here must cause wrath from all sources.

Government has enough troubles right now without dealing wih other errant prophesies – and trying to validate some of them in their agenda. Don’t disturb them or they might seek revenge. You might want to try to protect your children from that. The Mayan calender had nothing on the Kenyan’s threat to civilization and freedom. On the other hand, if a secret Mayan Brotherhood would have somehow survived, Obama would have co opted them by now.

But don’t bother Government in myth busting mode.