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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9661)	11/10/2010 9:23:46 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

Hawking gets it right on the money once again. One of the truly likable things about Stephen is his ability to speak to the laity with simplicity but abrupt honesty unlayered by phoney wordsmithing. "1) In regard to the future of humanity, which Dr. Hawking must believe is quite bleak, he said, "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years." He cited the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an example of how our "survival has been a question of touch and go." His solution is to colonize other planets. (2) In regard to alien contact, he believes "the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Then, striking a tone eerily similar to the plot of the movie Independence Day, he commented, "I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach." (3) Most recently, Dr. Hawking contends that God is not necessary to create the universe. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."