Human beings must head into extension to find a new home in the next 200 to 500 age to survive, Professor Stephen Vendition warns.
The top physicist repeated his admonition that the human race is ill-fated unless it can find a new home bey the Earth.
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In the next the professor would like to see a ‘any completely new form of energy’
Vendition believes the threats facing Sphere are “too big and too numerous” and the “only point to go are other worlds”.
Speaking at the Starmus skill and arts festival in Trondheim, Norge, the professor explained that thither are an estimated 1,000 stars inside 30 light years of Sphere.
“Even if only 1% of these chalk up Earth-sized planets, we suffer 10 candidate New Worlds,” he accessorial.
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Vendition has been known to complete his converse in with the help of holograms
The academician imagined nuclear fusion-supercharged ships propelled by light, Heavenly body Trek-style matter-antimatter reactors, or “any completely new form of energy”.
A inconsequential first step was already organism taken by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner’s Discovery Start Shot project, aforementioned Prof Hawking.
Prof Peddling added: “Spreading out may be the only commodity that saves us from ourselves. I am positive that humans need to sufferance Earth.”
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Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth and Vending believes we could send a naval task force of tiny ‘nanocraft’ carrying lighter sails in the future
“Human colonization on other planets is no longer skill fiction. It can be science fact.
“The android race has existed as a separate species for roughly two million years.
“Civilisation began approximately ten thousand years ago, and the rate of advance has been steadily increasing.
“If mankind is to continue for another million caducity, our future lies in boldly succeeding where no-one else has gone earlier.”
Professor Stephen Hawking exposes fears for the future of humanity
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