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- The physicist Stephen Hawking said yesterday that he
feared the human race would not survive for another thousand years.
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- The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
and author of A Brief History of Time said that an accident or global
warming would wipe out life on Earth.
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- Only by settling on other planets could humanity guarantee
its survival, he said.
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- The physicist made the comments ahead of last night's
lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh called The Universe in a Nutshell,
the title of his new book.
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- He said: "I am afraid the atmosphere might get hotter
and hotter until it will be like Venus with boiling sulphuric acid. I am
worried about the greenhouse effect."
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- Professor Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and speaks with
the aid of a computer, has motor neurone disease.
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- He said that space travel would not solve the problems
of overpopulation, but without colonising other planets humans were presented
with the possibility of becoming extinct.
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- Professor Hawking also said that the challenge for physics
was to produce an explanation of everything - a complete unified theory.
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