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RUSH: Now, Stephen Hawking has passed away, age 76, the longest
surviving human in history with ALS. He had a variation of this disease
that was not as deadly as the primary form of the disease is. Living to
76 with ALS is a big deal, and he’s been acknowledged as the smartest,
the most intelligent, the brightest, years and years — light years —
ahead of everybody in terms of knowledge of the universe and quantum
physics and laser physics, astrophysics, all of physics’ fields. He’s
just light years ahead of everybody, acknowledged to be smarter than
anybody in the world.
Yet this guy said that we’ve got 200 years… Where have we heard this
before? “We have 200 years! If we don’t figure out how to colonize
someplace else, we’ve got 200 years and we’re toast.” Now, would
somebody explain to me where else that we can go? Is there a planet
that supports life right now? Would somebody explain this to me? Where
is it? What are we gonna colonize? I’m not trying to be disrespectful
to Professor Hawking. Folks, I’m just a college dropout radio guy. I
just have common sense, everyday questions.
A guy says to me, “We’re toast in 200 years unless we figure out how to
colonize X.” What? The moon? Mars? We’re gonna have to create global
warming someplace, wherever we go, to be able to live there. You ever
stop to think about that? I mean, and everybody swoons and thinks,
“Wow, man! He’s so far ahead of all of us.” And I don’t doubt that, in
his field, there’s no question he was light years ahead of everybody
and there’s no way to prove it. We just all accepted it. But this
colonizing someplace else?
It’s not just him. Elon Musk is on this. You know, all of these Silicon
Valley brain wizards say, “The earth is gonna destroy us! Global
warming, climate change are gonna destroy us. We’re gonna run out of
this, run out of that.” We’re not running out of anything. Natural
resources are increasing. Life expectancy is increasing. Life on earth
has never been better than it is today in any statistical way that you
want to measure it, and yet the doom-and-gloom crowd says, “Two hundred
years! Two hundred…” That means the people who are gonna eventually
colonize have not been born yet.
(interruption) Just did what? (interruption) I know he just…
(interruption) This is not the first time I have raised questions…
(interruption) Okay. Wait a minute, now. Snerdley and the staff are
saying, “I can’t believe you did this. The guy just passed away!” Okay.
What am I supposed to do? “Folks, I wish to join Professor Hawking in
encouraging you and every one of us to begin immediately working on
transferring our entire population to somewhere else. We’ve got 200
years to figure it out, and I today come before you to endorse…”
Is that what I was supposed to do because he passed away?
(interruption) I don’t want you to hit the delay button. This is not a
sign of disrespect. Is it sounding like a sign of disrespect? You know…
(interruption) Of course I know I’m the only one in the world…
(interruption) It’s not just on the day of Stephen Hawking passing
away. I mean, Elon Musk mentions this, you know, twice a month, and
whenever I hear about it, I say the same thing: “Where are we gonna go,
and how are we gonna get one billion people there?
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I have all kinds of… You know, the Big Bang. Let’s look at the Big
Bang. People accept that the Big Bang is how all of this began. Now,
again, folks, I have a belief. One of the ways I have proven to myself…
‘Cause I think we’ve all tried to do this. We accept the faith, but
then we still test it. As long as there are questions that we can ask…
Meaning, we have been created with the intelligence to create or ask
these questions, this quest for knowledge.
If there are questions we can ask to which we will never have the
answers, then that gives me confidence that there is more than just
life on earth. What is the point of creating beings who can ponder such
places if they don’t exist? Certainly the Big Bang. Again, I’ll admit
I’m just a college dropout radio guy, okay? I’m not a professional
physicist. I’m not a professional scientist. I do not own a lab coat,
white or light blue. So they tell me that the Big Bang is where
everything began. Hawking says it’s the Big Bang and we’re still
expanding.
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