HAWKING says world may end...but reassures fans Zayn remains with 1D in parrallel universe
A HOLOGRAM of Professor Stephen Hawking warned an audience in Sydney Opera House that mankind will die out if we do not colonise other planets within the next thousand years.
Beamed into the Sydney Opera House by hologram Stephen Hawking warned we must leave earth or die
After giving the warning, in a nod to Star Trek, Hawking's hologram said 'Beam me up Scotty' and was zoomed back to his office in Cambridge.
Hawking addressed sold-out crowds at the Sydney Opera House over two days using holographic technology, which allowed the renowned cosmologist to speak to them from his Cambridge office, as if he were there.
Continuing the futuristic theme, Hawking, whose life story was told in the film A Brief History of Everything last year, said humans should seek to live in space within the next 1,000 years, or 'die out'.
He said: "We must continue to go into space for the future of humanity. I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet."
Mankind learned to teleport a hologram of Stephen Hawking into Sydney Opera House
We must continue to go into space for the future of humanity. I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.
The professor, who was told he had just two years to live, aged 21 in 1963, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease and speaks only through an electronic speech device,
has often declared the rise of artificial intelligence and increased warmongering could eventually kill us off.
He suggested earlier this year other planets should be colonised as a 'life insurance' for the species.
Aside from the doom, the show had a light-hearted edge, with one woman asking during a Q&A what the effect on the cosmos was of Zayn leaving boy band One Direction, to which
he assured them there were parallel universes where Zayn remained in the group and another where he was married to the woman posing the question.
He signed off urging the audience to 'look at up at the stars and not down at your feet', before being beamed back to the UK.