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High Table at Cambridge with Stephen Hawking

bughunter writes "Accomplished astrophysicist and SF author Gregory Benford shares a personal account of his recent conversation with Stephen Hawking at Reason Online. As usual, Benford's style is engaging and informal, and this doesn't read like a typical interview. Although the article is short on jargon, Benford and Hawking share insights on the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, as such minds are want to do. We even get a glimpse of Cambridge tunnel hacking. Of course, there's also a plug for Hawking's new book, The Universe in a Nutshell."

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  1. Primer Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jodeos!

  2. Steven Hawkings is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a really smart guy

  3. �Y con eso que? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vos me la comés.. bien bien bien comida vos xD

  4. Second Hug A Root Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Huggeth A Root

  5. I saw him on Star Trek playing poker with Einstein by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He was grinning like an idiot just because he had 4 of a kind. Since when are physisists good poker players? They would get eaten alive in a high stakes game. Stick to the formulas, Stephen.

  6. Goddamnit by NaCh0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have an account to specifically block Jon Katz stories and comments. But now he has a banner ad about his stupid dogs!!

    When will the madness end?

  7. Re:getting past the physical limitations by dustpuppy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Okay ... this comment is off-topic, but I think it would be hillariously funny is CmdrTaco's post got downvoted to -1 as a troll.

  8. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    CmdrTaco, you've just opened yourself up for a ton of "physical limitations" barbs, surely to fly off many a /. reader/contributor.

    I however enjoy your all your work...Well Done!

  9. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just because you got bum raped by your daddy at the sweet age of 13 doesn't mean you were physically capable of reproducing.

  10. Oh yeah, he's a real genius by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Hawking is so damn smart, why can't he use his legs?

  11. Re:I saw him on Star Trek playing poker with Einst by packeteer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    silly... cards are just a giant ame of numbers... well for them its not so giant... a physicyst would be the best at cards that i cna think of... counting cards and making estimates on probability is what they are good at...

    --
    unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
  12. Re:Hawking needs a High Chair for the High Table by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice move Proctal. You got a horizonal scrollbar on Mozilla.

  13. Someone with a user id as low as yours... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    should realize that that is not taco.

  14. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's apparently married. I'm wondering, if his wife ever gets any, or if so, how the heck he manages to get it on? Kind of hard, I suspect... Does the wheelchar have a "dildo" function?

    I wonder how their marriage must "hold up".

  15. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nice

  16. MOZILLA PAGE WIDENING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not me, the parent!

    cool eh!

    1. Re:MOZILLA PAGE WIDENING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's just the W's that do it. Nuttin' special. And it'll only pagewidden at lower than 1024px. Meh.

  17. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish these trolls would quit posting crap like this, and especially with such childish names.

    When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  18. Re:The Universe In a Nutshell by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  19. SlashDOS by Hellen+Back · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've tried to read 4 Slashdot-linked articles today and am 0 for 4. Somethings got to give

  20. Re:The Universe In a Nutshell by Shriek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An image created in Gimp that is a picture of RMS.

  21. Re:How do we view Hawkins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hawkins?

    You, my friend, are an idiot.

  22. Re:getting past the physical limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, this "CmdrTaco (editor)" person really is fooling a lot of people, isn't he? Personally, I think that "CmdrTaco on Saturday" had a better idea, I was almost fooled by that one.

  23. Wide table at Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  24. Grammar Nazi by Acy+James+Stapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That should be "wont to do"

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    -- Too lazy to get a lower UID.