Hawking up some taxpayer funded nonsense!

Brits should be fuming over this crapola.  We aren't going interplanetary anytime soon.  Trust me.

In his recorded speech, Hawking pleaded for interplanetary travel, arguing that humans faced a grim future unless they spread out from their terrestrial home. "I don't think we will survive another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet," he said.