<![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @papabear
thanks for the google tip, cool stuff.

One of Professor Hawkings stated intentions for this was to get people interested in space generally and specifically in manned deep space missions.
If Kotaku can hold a topic like this (and get this quality of response) I'd say he's doing quite well.

TokeYo

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @Spare_Change: Not at all. They can be terribly attractive, as aforementioned golden-haired lass quite clearly is. What I said had no intended implicit meaning. I'm just the dude who's going, "Hey, check her out!" haha

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> I don't know how Hawking can deal with us of lesser intellect... It would never work for me, I'd go insane. I adore Hawking... and @jackal888: That's a very, very funny statement, friend.

CallmeMongoose

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @dunetiger: yeah. HAwt. Um, so female astronauts are supposed to be unattractive?

@jackal888: clearly you are insipid. Nor do you realize that Dr. Hawking, in space, is free of his gravity shackles. And he is brilliant. Are you upset at this? maybe you should read up on quantum physics and mechanics.

Remember, mother earth doesn't need you, you need her.

Spare_Change

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Yeah, Hawking in space. Whatever. I'm going to be the typical guy here and point out that the blonde astronaut on the right-hand side is pretty hot.

I didn't even notice the genius on the floor.

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> As long as folks with severe disabilities manage things like this, there is hope for us all.

Chilly Hollow

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @Raynre: And whether in the next dozen or the next hundred, if this planet gets 'torn apart' we all die, end story. If it's a hundred thousand? Well, never say never, and maybe some totally new science that turns the laws of physics inside-out might be discovered, but otherwise the energy expenditure required to move a significant number of people to another star in any reasonable time is tremendous and probably still unachievable.

If the Earth really became a nuclear wasteland or something (and really it's quite difficult to destroy the planet to the extent that nobody could live here - sure, critical overpopulation could cause problems but the only realistic end solution to that is 'lots of people dying', we couldn't move billions into space), it's perhaps more realistic to think of constructed habitats for small numbers of survivors in this solar system, and/or even the potential to fuck up a second planet so it'd suit us (aka 'terraforming'). Presumably there is sufficient ice and minerals etc on asteroids or whatever.

Global warming and related problems won't make the planet uninhabitable even if we burn all the fossil fuels (which seems depressingly likely). Perhaps millions will die in various floods, hurricanes, other natural disasters, resource wars, poverty/starvation caused by economic effects, etc. - but, though with a lower standard of living, the rest will live on. We thankfully aren't able to turn the planet into Venus.

quen

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Check out the Lezzers in the centre of the pic! :P

Lemming

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> I bet the queues for this thing are longer than Disney Land.

alibi

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> That lazy punk! They're all getting ready for the flight and posing for photos and he's all like "Nah, I'm just gonna have a snooze. Wake me up when it's over.".

Marv2

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Hawking is the man. I would give anything to be half as intelligent, and yet still charismatic like that guy. I mean seriously - he's charismatic and he speaks using a machine voice! That's some going!

Excelle

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> It doesn't matter if humanity is going to destroy Earth or not, as the Sun eventually will destroy it as it grows older and expands, boiling the oceans and frying our descendants to a crisp.

So unless we want humanity to die with the sun (well before acutally) then we need to find some other suitable planets with younger suns.

Oh, and finding a way to escape this Universe before it grows too cold from expansion or before it collapses would also be nice.

Sri Lumpa

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @jackal888:
Actually he cares very much about our own planet.
"We foresee great perils if governments and society do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and prevent further climate change."
That was a direct quote from Hawking.
The fact of the matter is, he is a scientist like my father, and these unique people are driven by curiosity and knowledge in there perspective fields.
Do not demonise him for work you know little about, or the man you know nothing about.

Acute Gamer

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @jackal888: You dont seem to be able to comprehend the very real FACT that the Earth will not be around forever. Whether in a hundred thousand years or the next dozen, human beings will tear this wonderful little planet apart. No amount of conservation will be able to stop it in the long run. Spacetravel is not a viable option right now with our current technology, but it never hurts to look ahead.

Raynre

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Nice to see Hawking had the strength to do the 'thumbs up' in the pic too. :D

TaeK

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> The great space mummy heist was a success I see. ZING!

Qwizatblah

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Who's that blonde chick on the right?

ShIh

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> "the pilots flew the best parabolas I have experienced in my few trips."

I wish i was smart enough to say that...

ContrAss

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @PapaBear: Oh "New Earth" a quick 20 light years away.You call that hope for a new world?Let me get in my spaceship and go there, wait it will take me 400,000 years.Better pack a lunch.
There are answers to the population and ecological problems that we will face.Some genius will be used the solve them sometime in the future.Leaving to go somewhere else is not an option.
The only good space travel and exploration give us are new inventions for us to use on Earth and a clear picture of just how fortunate we are to be on this planet.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Good for Hawking, I'm a little surprised it took him this long to take a ride on the "Vomit Comet" though.
I'm glad he enjoyed it, since the plane has a well deserved nickname.

Acute Gamer

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> @jackal888:

He is obsessed with Earth because the man can see the big picture in the long term.

Even if we treat this planet 100% like the extreme treehuggers want, we'll still destroy it eventually. We are overpopulating it. Bad. Given enough time, we will consume everything. We just don't have enough space.

Combine that with the fact that history has proven that eventually something will happen beyond our control, be it a meteor, a suer-volcano, huge tectonic shifts... that will completely devastate this little rock we call home.

Best not to put all your eggs in one basket, after all. To ensure survival, it's probably best to branch out, and spread ourselves a little thinner over the stretch in the universe.

Besides, it would be a pretty large leap and assumption to believe that this is the only planet in the universe capable of life as we know it. Just do a Google search of "New Earth" to see what they discovered a solar system away from us. A whole planet much like our own that could very well support us, and may be supporting life much like what we see here on this planet.

/man, I am all about the huge posts today

PapaBear

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> extraordinarily tenuously related to videogames

amnn

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> What is this obsession with space?Hawking is obsessed with leaving Earth. I believe Earth is all we have in this univerese. As long as we think we can just leave we will treat this planet like crap.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[Garriott Blogs Up Hawking In Space]]> Must of been fun playing ball with a human being..thats right..

MO3iusONE

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