The famous British scientist Stephen Hawking believed that mankind can survive only if it finds a new home outside the planet Earth.

"Observer" remembered what the physicist said about the end of the world.

All will perish According to him, in the next thousand years there will be an inevitable man-made disaster. He also listed threats that could lead to the death of mankind: a nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, he called a huge achievement that people managed to get close to understanding the laws that rule the universe.

As it will be According to Hawking, the world's population will grow, energy consumption will increase, and the planet itself will turn into a "flaming fireball". As early as 2600, mankind could disappear.

In this case, the only salvation of mankind will be resettlement on a livable planet. Hawking believed that around Alfa Centauri - the closest star to the solar system - a living planet could rotate. The scientist was sure that in the next 50 years we will master Mars and the Moon.

The global catastrophe of Stephen Hawking suggested that in 100 years on Earth a global catastrophe will occur, because of which humanity will have to move to other planets.

According to Hawking, four causes can provoke a global catastrophe: global climate change, a pandemic, a large asteroid impact and a rapid population growth of the Earth. As a result, the native planet of mankind will become unsuitable for life.

Robots will make us helpless Hawking warned of a new danger to mankind, which is born of artificial intelligence.

He stressed that if skillfully using artificial intelligence, then he can solve many problems in the world. But otherwise it will lead to the degradation of humanity. People can become helpless.

As previously reported, the English scientist, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76.