{"id":574,"date":"2010-08-08T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-08-08T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:08:06","slug":"scientist-its-outer-space-or-die-for-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/scientist-its-outer-space-or-die-for-humans","title":{"rendered":"Scientist: It&#8217;s Outer Space or Die For Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-575\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"stephen-hawking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stephen-hawking-150x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stephen-hawking-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stephen-hawking-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stephen-hawking.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Stephen Hawking says he&#8217;s an optimist. Perhaps theoretical physicists have an idiosyncratic definition of the word.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking suggested that unless the human race begins to inhabit outer space, it will disappear.<\/p>\n<p>His tinge of optimism is painted in quite muted colors. &#8220;If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space,&#8221; he told BigThink.<\/p>\n<p>But those two centuries might well be fraught with far more crises than ever before, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking is worried about the way humans are eating up finite resources and commented that our genetic code &#8220;carries selfish and aggressive instincts,&#8221; which have helped humanity survive so often in times gone by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking suggests that unless the human race begins to inhabit outer space, it will disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}