This is one of the more fun articles, I have seen in a bit.
"there are klingons on the starboard side, captain Kirk"
Monty Python
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Hawking says greenhouse effect threatens human race survival
The Associated Press
LONDON (September 30, 2000 10:12 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Stephen Hawking fears the human race may
not survive another millennium.
"I am afraid the atmosphere might get hotter and hotter until it will be like
Venus with boiling sulfuric acid," the physicist told Britain's Press
Association. "I am worried about the greenhouse effect."
To ensure the survival of humans, he adds, efforts must be made to
colonize other planets. Space travel would not solve every problem, but at
least it would ensure that people don't become extinct.
"It takes too many resources to send each person into space," he said.
"But unless the human race spreads into space, I doubt it will survive the
next thousand years."
Hawking, 58, holds the Cambridge University post once held by Sir Isaac
Newton and is the author of the best-selling "A Brief History of Time."
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