Professor Stephen Hawking "Why We Should Go Into Space"

Professor Stephen Hawking's Speech "Why We Should Go Into Space" streamed into Second Life and NASA TV on April 21, 2008

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/NASA_lecture_series/hawking.html


For the creation of this video I have taken some of my favorite parts of his lecture and combined them with video I recorded live in Second Life during the event for the benefit of NASA Space CoLab. I've added music with permission of Voicedude Reinoir to help convey the emotion I feel as Professor Hawking speaks. I also interlaced some scenes from Second Life locations that went along with his words.

Scenes include shots from NASA CoLab Island, The Scilands (National Space Society, International Spaceflight Museum, and Elon University islands),

All Machinima shot and edited by Me Earth Primbee. Music used with permission of copyright holder.


C-span recorded the whole lecture as well you can view it along with Lucy Hawking's wonderful lecture on Science Education here:

http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/wm.na...

For more information on Stephen Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk/

For more information on NASA's 50th Anniversary
http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/index.html

For a link to the Scilands blog to learn more about this budding science community in Second Life http://www.scilands.org/

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[parsectt7]

No, he had live audiences both in the material world and virtual world at the same time!

[freedomfighterone]

Forget it! We are destroying ourselves here on Earth. At this rate, we will not make the next 100 years. Selfishness and ignorance is destroying everything.

[OntDinRS]

200 years to explore s ome moons?

I am saddened that such an apparently "smart" man doesn't believe in the law of exponential growth. It's a LAW for a reason people.

We'll be exploring those moons before the end of the century.

[ahmedeox]

@Cireanimefan a world war 3 will blast us into space. With so many religious nutters armed with nuclear weapons we'd all die certainly.

[ZSaberToothTigerZ]

Furries

[Cireanimefan]

Do you guys think a world war 3 force us to go into space?

[moonus111]

Come on guys, this guy is saying this 2 years ago, and now some real stuff is starting to happen. To save the world we have to go into space, start repeating it LOUDLY. Say it to people who wouldn't expect it, say there's many people who say so, say it's a basic fact. We've got to go into space, and we've got a lot of reasons. Don't let the late adopters discourage you, they'll dig in their heels as usual, but we've got an honest basic fact.

[signedadam]

I agree with everything this man says, and so should you guys

[CrazyCamo]

I wish what he says would happen already, it has to! If we were able to unite our planet under a common flag we would be able speed up the technical evolution of our species! America has so much technology that remains classified. We are living 30 years in the past...