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Changes in Our Solar System: Is Trouble Coming? Hawking Answers

ABC News Aug. 16, 2006 — - For the first time in recent memory, the universe is under scrutiny and the solar system we all learned in grade school may be turned upside down.
Astronomers are now reassessing what makes a planet a planet, so curiosity about our existence in this solar system is peaking.
Could the human race go extinct?
According to Stephen Hawking, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, the possibility of our extinction should be a wake-up call to us all.
Hawking sat down with ABC News to give his perspective on the devastation our civilization could face in the next century.
Here are a few excerpts from Hawking's conversation with Elizabeth Vargas.
Vargas: How crucial is the next 100 years to the survival of the human race?
Hawking: We face a number of threats to our survival, from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, genetically engineered viruses, and the number is likely to increase in the future, with ....full text
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