

Last Year during a video presentation at the Tencent Web Summit in Beijing, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking said again how much time he thinks it is time for humanity to find a second home.





The researcher alludes of course to the great ecological, biological, climatic, energy, demographic and consequently economic crises which are underway or which are looming on our horizon (2100). The vital prognosis of the Earth - at least, of the biosphere - is under way.

"By 2600, the Earth will turn into a big ball of fire," he warns. Humanity must make plans to leave the planet, otherwise we risk extermination. So if we still want to live "another million years," we must "boldly go where no one has gone before," reports The Sun.





Illustration of the nanoprobe project to explore Proxima b. © Breakthrough Starshot



Breakthrough Starshot, a first step towards interstellar exploration





A few months ago, Stephen Hawking had already said his conviction that the future of humanity is elsewhere, in space, in search of other lands: "We lack space and the only places to go are the other worlds. It's time to explore other solar systems. Lying down may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. ”



Finally, Stephen Hawking invited the investors present at the meeting to take part in Breakthrough Initiatives which he supports. Seeking life elsewhere and ways to communicate with other extraterrestrial civilizations are the motivations of this program. And there is also Breakthrough Starshot, a project that plans to send nanosensors pushed by lasers to the star closest to us, Proxima Centauri. It is of course, for him, a way to prepare our future.





Also present in Beijing, Pete Worden, former director of NASA's Ames research center and now director of Breakthrough Starshot, said, "Hopefully soon after the middle of the century we will have our first image from another planet that could support life in orbit around the nearest star. "





Except for a collapse of our civilization, the Alpha system of the Centaur seems within our reach.









Humanity will have to leave the Solar System if it is to survive



