Abandonment? No Way!

Eminent scientist, Stephen Hawking, says that if humans are to have a future, they just might have to abandon the planet Earth. Perhaps that's how the disciples felt when Jesus disappeared. Abandoned.

Stephen Hawking is the physicist-mathematician-cosmologist with longer alphabet soup credentials on his business card than any living human. One needs an advanced degree just to understand Hawking's areas of research. He's written many books, including the international best-selling A Brief History of Time. And whenever the boundaries of human potential are discussed, a sound bite from Hawking is a certainty. From human space flight to alien life to theoretical physics, Hawking taps out mind-blowing ideas.

Now he's telling us we need to abandon earth or face extinction. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet." Hawking says we need to get the heck out of here. Find a new planet to colonize. Start from scratch without the mess we've made.

And given the hoopla growing about 2012, some people are thinking he's right.

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