Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Be that as it may, Hawking seems genuinely concerned that humans could be wiped out as a species unless we speed up the colonizing of other planets widely scattered throughout the cosmos. He told the BBC that “humans will have to colonize planets in far-flung solar systems if the race is to survive.” But we’ve already shown that it would be impossible to reach any other planets “widely scattered throughout the cosmos,” much less to “colonize” them.