Stephen Hawking lauds Chinese pop star for space migration question

Wang and his two other band mates each have more than 30 million followers on their Twitter-like Weibo microblog accounts

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, leader 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.

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