Beijing - British theoretical physicist
Stephen Hawking, on his Chinese microblog Weibo account, praised
the lead singer of China's most popular boy band for asking
about life beyond Earth.
Wang Junkai, lead singer of the wildly popular TFBOYS,
posted a video of himself on his Weibo account on Friday asking
the author of "A Brief History of Time" how humanity should
prepare for interstellar migration in years to come.
Wang Junkai, lead singer of the TFBOYS, posted this video on his Weibo account.
Hawking recently warned that the human race must evacuate
Earth in 600 years before soaring energy consumption turns the
planet into a "ball of fire".
Earlier this month, Hawking made a video appearance at a
science summit organised by Tencent Holdings and
pleaded for investors to support his idea of travelling to the
closest star outside our solar system in the hope of finding an
inhabitable planet.
The 75-year old physicist said in a video posting on his
Weibo account that Wang asked "an excellent question", which
gave him insight into Chinese millennnials and their
"curiosities" regarding the future.
Wang Junkai posted a video of himself on his Weibo account on Friday asking the author of "A Brief History of Time" how humanity should prepare for interstellar migration in years to come.
Wang and his two other band mates each have more than 30
million followers on their Twitter-like Weibo microblog
accounts.
Owned by Weibo Corp, Weibo is China's biggest social
media platform with more than 200 million active users.
Hawking, who opened his Weibo account last year, has 4.3
million followers, while British Prime Minister Theresa May has
more than 900,000, having inherited her account from David
Cameron.