Humans will NOT survive another 1,000 years on Earth, says Stephen Hawking: Physicist warns we must 'escape beyond our fragile planet'

Just as well for our planet really - but why should we go and ruin another one?

His brand of science has become a religion with it's doctrines you can't question so it's understandable they've got a revelation end of the world story.

Nice one Stephen. We all love an optimist.

And then we can go and destroy another planet. Better the human race dies out.

it should read ''The Earth will not survive another 500 years with mankind still here"

Well wont make any difference to any of us .

It's such a chilling possibility that we are inclined to put it to the back of our minds.

What a stupid comment. The universe will not suffer if humanity ceases to exist and will most will not benefit if a few thousand humans leave the planet.It would make more sense to just find a way to ensure that the planet is livable for as long as possible and that means controlling things like the population, pollution, resource usage etc.

Wrong! One hundred years max.

Mr Hawkins no need for the reminder, the way we humans have evolved we shouldn't expect this planet to last no longer anyway

Wrong, 300 years. Look at Krankie (SNP leader ) the way she is acting?

We need to escape from our fragile country first.

The way society is going I'm not sure if I'll want to spend a thousand days on Earth!

And go to mars, and try to seed mars, breathing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and trying to oxygenate the atmosphere of mars, next big step...

1000 years - that long eh?

Our only choice is to get to a global steady state solution. We are 7 Billion people on a finite planet. 1st thing we need are global population controls. Instead of carbon taxes, we need a procreation tax that kicks in after 2 kids, that would stabilize consumption, fixing a lot of things. Unfortunately, all the world economies are dependent on growth to be successful and rising populations are fueling our growth, not only innovation. We need to de-link our measures of success (growth) from expanding consumer populations. Without obsessing with growth, we 7 Billion people on this finite planet, could work a lot less, enjoy life more and save our only inhabitable planet in the process. Our competitive natures are killing us.

Oh yes and take our innate evil with us !

Would living in a space suit or in a tightly confined space be considered living or surviving? Personally, I'd chose to stay here where there are beaches, mountains, plains, animals, and sun.

Despite Hawking's undoubted talents as a physicist - this is tea-leaf reading at its heart. He cannot and he knows it predict what will happen in 100 years, let alone 1000yrs. I have no doubt mankind will find a way to go into space - intersellar as well as interplanetary within the next hundred years. The problem with eminent scientists and a couple are colleagues - they begin to believe their own hype. They no longer say 'this is where we are at, until new discoveries happen' they say 'this is what I believe and thus it's fact'. He is 'working to prove' his thesis, which means he already believes it's the only one. He will, of course, be proven wrong at some point, as were all those eminent scientists for 2300 years until the English physicist Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774. He wrote 'Few concepts have laid firmer hold upon the mind, than that air is a simple elementary substance, indestructible and unalterable."

That's the arrogance of the Human race, we destroy this planet but Hey Ho let's go find another one to obliterate