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Our Aggression Will Destroy Humanity

Hawking: Our Aggression
 Will Destroy Humanity

When Stephen Hawking airs his opinion,                 Where do you stand on                              in the camera lenses show up behind objects,
whether it be about black holes, aliens, artificial    the history of the moon                            not on top, in moon still images?
intelligence or even Heaven, the world tends to
take note. And this time the renowned British                   landing?                                           5. During the Apollo 15 mission two
theoretical physics professor has gone on the                                                             images clearly show the same background
record with a warning: if we, as a civilization,     Napoléon Bonaparte once stated that ‘History is      though NASA stated the locations were miles
do not check our aggressive ways, we will be         a set of lies agreed upon.’ There seems to be an     apart. How is this possible?
doomed.                                              ever growing number of people in the age of
                                                     information who agree. We are not just talking                This is just a handful of the questions
         During a tour around London’s Science       about the UFO or conspiracy communities              being asked online. Rest assured NASA has
Museum, Hawking responded to a question              either. Take the moon landing for instance. In an    responded to each of them – and to be honest,
from 24-year-old teacher Adaeze Uyanwah              article published Feb. 10, we are told that Neil     some of the NASA responses are labored or
from Palmdale, Calif. Uyanwah won an                 Armstrong’s wife recently discovered a bag full      nonsensical at best. Take the response to the
international contest to be his guest of honor.      of Apollo mission goodies – forgotten in a           multiple light sources in images problem.
During the tour, Uyanwah asked that if               closet all these years. It should be no surprise     NASA blamed the landscape and uneven hills
Hawking could change one shortcoming                 that with so many questioning the moon               and bumps. No – really.
humanity has, what would it be?                      landing, this bag of ‘priceless’ moon artifacts is
                                                     getting the critical eye. An image of the contents            There are many questions being asked
         “The human failing I would most like to     of this bag can be seen here. It seems old Neil      online about the moon landings that seem to
correct is aggression,” said Hawking. “It may        simply put this ‘priceless’ bag in his pocket after  have no legitimate answer from our space
have had survival advantage in caveman days,         quarantine and debriefing, went home and             agency. But this observation is food for
to get more food, territory or partner with whom     threw it in a closet.                                thought. In almost all cases of achievement,
to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us                                                          once a thing is done the following efforts
all.”                                                         So before you roll your eyes and move       usually surpass the initial effort – in both
                                                     on – is there anything wrong with asking             scope and ability. This is not so of the moon
         Perhaps unsurprisingly, he focused on       critically thought out questions about the history   landings. Not only have we never returned a
nuclear war being the trigger that “would be the     we have been handed? Napoléon didn’t seem to         man to the moon, but now other countries are
end of civilization, and maybe the end of the        think so and he was in a position to know. By        sending tiny rovers – we are told. That is a big
human race.”                                         the way, a poll taken in 2012 found 20% of           jump backwards which ignores our failure to
                                                     Americans did not believe the moon landing           return humans. To top it off private industry
         In an effort to counter human               happened and that number has grown. Let’s take       now has its sights set on the moon yet it seems
aggression, the 73-year-old said the quality he’d    a look at some of the questions folks are asking     like they are starting from scratch and taking
like to magnify is empathy, as “it brings us         about the moon landing.                              for ever to get there. Why? We have already
together in a peaceful, loving state.”                                                                    done this multiple times – right? []
                                                              1. How is it possible that there is no
         Hawking believes that, in addition to       crater under the lunar lander, or dust on the
correcting this shortcoming, space exploration       lander legs, with thousand of pounds of thrust
will ultimately save our species — it is our         applied during landing on a very dusty surface?
civilization’s "life insurance policy."
                                                              2. How is it possible that there was more
         “I believe that the long-term future of     than one light source demonstrated in the moon
the human race must be space and that it             stills/videos of the astronauts? (Many examples
represents an important life insurance for our       of shadows that are not parallel have been
future survival, as it could prevent the             shown)
disappearance of humanity by colonizing other
planets,” he said.                                            3. How did the astronauts get through
                                                     the Van Allen Radiation Belts and how is it that
         The Daily Mail reports that Uyanwah         more belts have recently been discovered if they
entered the competition by producing a video         already passed through them?
describing her "perfect day" in London, beating
10,000 other contestants.                                     4. How is it possible that the cross-hairs

         “It’s incredible to think that decades
from now, when my grandchildren are learning
Stephen Hawking’s theories in science class, I’ll
be able to tell them I had a personal meeting
with him and heard his views first hand. It’s
something I’ll never forget,” she said.

         Hawking is a bestselling author and
currently has the position of Director of
Research at the Center for Theoretical
Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK. He
is famed for his theoretical work on black hole
radiation and significant contributions to the
fields of cosmology, general relativity and
quantum physics.

         The 2014 movie “The Theory of
Everything,” which dramatically portrays the
physicist’s life, his early work and diagnosis of
motor neuron disease (ALS), was honored at the
87th Academy Awards on Sunday night. British
actor Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor
Oscar for his portrayal of Hawking. []

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