[asa] Space Cadet: Man must leave planet Earth

Falling into the "What can I do to scare the pants off the idiots
again today so I can get them to help me advance my
agenda", category, we have this offering:

"...He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that scientists still have
"some way to go" to reach his prediction in his bestselling A Brief
History of Time that mankind would one day "know the mind of God" by
understanding the complete set of laws which govern the
universe. ...This set of laws, which will probably rely on theory
that requires more than three dimensions of space and one of time,
could be uncovered within 20 years ...
Prof Hawking said that this knowledge may be vital to the human
race's continued existence. [and]... disclosed his own ambition to
go into space. "Maybe Richard Branson will help me," he said, a
reference to the space tourism plans of Virgin tycoon Sir Richard
Branson, using the privately built SpaceShipOne to take people into
space from 2008."

<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746379/posts>Hawking: Man
must leave planet Earth
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^ | 30/11/2006 | Roger Highfield
Posted on 11/30/2006 9:53:39 AM EST by
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~ Janice .... ".. keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous
to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H. L. Mencken

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Received on Thu Nov 30 12:24:05 2006