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Stephen Hawking: Colonize space Or else

I think Stephen Hawking has read one too many Sci-Fi novels, or watched too many episodes of Star Trek, and he's not alone. There are lots of people who are anticipating the need to "colonize space" in order to save homo sapiens.

BS, I say. Take the money spent of space exploration and travel and use it to solve the problems here on earth. Makes much better sense to me. We haven't even found a planet out there that would be hospitable, so why take a few lucky ones and pretend you're saving humanity. Either that, or let us go extinct, like so many other creatures have done. Get real.

Now, if you want to permanently rid the planet of a few of the more unsavoury specimens of our species, that method might be worth considering.