Stephen Hawking

You've probably heard of Stephen Hawking, a physicist who proposed a lot of interesting theories of our universe, suggesting that we should try to colonize outer space.

In response, Genius isn't everything:

Hawking’s future of humanity resembles nothing so much as those aliens from Independence Day, the ones that travel from planet to planet laying waste the resources and moving on, pausing only to strangle Brent Spiner. OK, so every disaster has an upside.