{"id":18973,"date":"2017-05-03T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/stephen-hawking-gives-us-100-years-to-escape-earth-and-looks-into-how-to-do-it\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:21:02","slug":"stephen-hawking-gives-us-100-years-to-escape-earth-and-looks-into-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/stephen-hawking-gives-us-100-years-to-escape-earth-and-looks-into-how-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking gives us 100 years to escape Earth \u2013 and looks into how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British physicist Stephen Hawking looks into technologies that could help humanity create a second home beyond Earth within the next century. (Credit: Discovery Channel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an upcoming TV documentary, British physicist Stephen Hawking revives his prediction that humanity will have to spread out a new home in space within 100 years in order to ensure the species\u2019 survival.<\/p>\n

But this time, he\u2019s looking into how it can be done.<\/p>\n

The two-part documentary, titled \u201cExpedition New Earth,\u201d is due to air on BBC Two as part of the British network\u2019s revived \u201cTomorrow\u2019s World\u201d TV series.<\/p>\n

Hawking has repeatedly warned of the potential threats facing humanity, including nuclear war, rapid climate change, potential pandemics, catastrophic asteroid strikes and even a robot uprising. That echoes similar warnings issued by Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Last November, Hawking told an audience at Oxford Union in Cambridge, \u201cI don\u2019t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet.\u201d Hawking has previously referred to shorter time scales, on the order of 100 to 200 years.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EG6kd0VAYHE<\/p>\n

\u201cExpedition New Earth\u201d takes Hawking\u2019s argument several steps further by delving into the technologies that could add plausibility to the idea of inhabiting off-Earth locales \u2013 ranging from the moon and Mars to habitable exoplanets.<\/p>\n

Among those technologies are:<\/p>\n