Stephen Hawking has asked Yahoo! Answers for their advice on the question “How can the human race survive the next hundred years?”. Straight and to the point, Hawking appears to be voicing his concerns on the political, social and environmental chaos currently prevelant throughout the world to the scholars of Yahoo! Answers, receiving insightful input such as:

Simple. Keep eating, keep drinking, keep defecating, keep urinating, keep breathing and keep having sex. I would say keep praying also, but I’ve seen our culture on an increasingly constricted diet of prayer to our God, or Lord Jesus our Christ, and somehow we keep on keepin’ on. Not very good, but then quality wasn’t a part of your question. God Bless you. – RandyD

[How can the human race survive the next 100 years @ Yahoo! Answers]

Starting in the early 90s, shortly after the first Gulf War, media networks in the US began experiencing a huge rise in both their ratings, revenues and viewership. Around this time, artist Brian Singer spent a year scanning satellite frequency bands and capturing back channel newsfeeds, the raw transmissions that broadcast news companies beamed back to their studios prior to manipulation and editing. The result of Singer’s experiments is an almost 60-minute documentary full of candid footage featuring presidential candidates, their staff, newscasters, and ordinary viewers, which paints an extremely clear picture of how major media networks came of age during the 90s and how the ‘spin’ that is created and rebroadcast effects society and the American public’s perception of reality, which continues on to this day (Fox News anyone?). Full video after the jump…

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