Comments on: Hawking Thinks Interstellar Travel Feasible https://blog.speculist.com/space/hawking-thinks.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: mthomas https://blog.speculist.com/space/hawking-thinks.html#comment-9089 mthomas Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:38:52 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=992#comment-9089 Hawkings is correct but
new technology like mine will be needed.

http://nlspropulsion.net

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/space/hawking-thinks.html#comment-9088 Karl Hallowell Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:29:40 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=992#comment-9088 OTOH, given extreme life extension, what is a trip of 50,000 years (Or less, given at least ion drives)?

]]> By: AndrewS https://blog.speculist.com/space/hawking-thinks.html#comment-9087 AndrewS Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:48:35 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=992#comment-9087 Hopefully, long before we try to go to the stars (no matter how we do it), we will have millions to billions of people living off-Earth. Maybe the Moon and Mars but most likely in artificial space colonies (O’Neill style or one of the newer designs).

While that doesn’t protect us against some existentional risks, it will protect us against many of them.

]]> By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/space/hawking-thinks.html#comment-9086 Phil Bowermaster Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:13:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=992#comment-9086 Hawking’s speculations on the nature of physical reality are sublime and his assessment of an existential risk to humanity is right on the money, but his views on spreading humanity out into space are sadly locked in the 20th century. We don’t need “warp drive” or “hyperspace” or any of that (extremely fun and entertaining) nonsense, and we don’t need huge ships filled with people and the stuff required to keep them alive. By the time we got such a ship built, we should have the capacity to create a digitized space ark that could hold a vast human population, a fairly good record of our civilization, and a blueprint to recreate our planet’s biodiversity all in a container about the size of one of those pneumatic tubes you use at the bank drive-through. Instead of one or two big ships, we could send dozens (or hundreds or thousands) of these arks to the far ends of the galaxy at a tad under light speed simultaneously preserving humanity and exploring / settling the universe.

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