I was a bit surprised to read that someone I always thought was firmly on the humans-as-gods side was saying silly things like "unless we travel to another star system, we won't find anywhere as nice as Earth".

Hello ? Terraforming ? Floating spheres in Jupiter ? All this pass you buy did it ? Go read some Baxter, or Charles Stross's 'Accelerano'.

Silly boy.

I'm looking at you, Hawking.