Hawking: Boldly go, or go extinct
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Speaking shortly before receiving one of science’s oldest and most prestigious awards — the Royal Society’s Copley Medal — Professor Stephen Hawking has said today that humankind will “sooner or later” be wiped out by a cosmic diaster like a meteorite strike, or an anthropogenic cataclysm like nuclear war, and only by travelling to Earth-like planets orbiting other stars can we hope to survive in the long term.
