In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earth as seen from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft on July 6, 2015. (Photo : Getty Images/Handout)
Physicist Stephen Hawking is predicting that with its current sorry condition - the impact of climate change and the likelihood of a nuclear showdown between the superpowers - Planet Earth is on definite course to destruction. In a thousand years, it will be apocalypse but the prominent scientist is contradicted by a blind prophet known as Baba Vanga.
The Bulgarian seer is long dead but left behind astounding predictions, some of which have already materialize, that many believe will come true. Baba Vanga had predicted of the first black American president in Barack Obama, the rise of the ISIS terror group and the emergence of China as a power to rival the United States.
But one vision that man wish would not happen is Baba Vanga's prophecy that Earth is destined to meet its end and so is mankind. It's a bit comforting though that for Baba Vanga the end is not happening until after 1781 years from now. Prior to death, she predicted that "Earth will cease to exist," according to Business Insider.
There is a way out, however. Man will be so advanced by 3797 that he will find an Earth-like planet in a distant star for possible migration, Baba Vanga said.
Scientist Hawking shares the same belief - that with rising threats such as "nuclear war, catastrophic global warming and genetically engineered viruses," the planet we live in will be no more but in Hawking's mind the end is happening much sooner. The theoretical physicist, according to The NY Post, said doomsday will be approximately 1000 years from now.
And like Baba Vanga, Hawking is very much optimistic that man will survive Earth's catastrophic end. If the climate change will not be reversed, if the nuclear showdown between America and Russia (and possibly China) cannot be prevented and if the feared virus outbreak is not arrested then man has to look to the stars for salvation.
The only way out is for mankind to search for a new planet to colonize when the time comes that Earth needs to be abandoned. How exactly this will be achieved, Hawking did not offer any proposals but as noted by the same report NASA is already exploring the possibility of migrating humans to another planet.
But if Baba Vanga is to be asked, man leaving Earth for another planet will not be made possible without the help of aliens. The so-called modern Nostradamus was convinced that man is not alone and will soon get in touch with aliens and the latter will teach mankind to set up alternative civilization like living under water, Business Insider said.
