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The ROBOlympic Games
Roland Piquepaille writes "The first International Robot Games, or ROBOlympics, organized by the Robotics Society of America, will take place on March 20th and 21st, 2004 in San Francisco, California. There will be competition for combat and non-combat robots, a World Cup Soccer game, and even a robo-triathlon. More than 400 robots are registered for this robotics competition. And the winners will receive hard cash. Nature tells us the story in 'Robolympics contestants shoot for gold.' More details and references are available in this overview which also includes a very nice photo of two robots, the larger one either fixing or rocking the smaller one. And for your information, ROBOlympics is not sold out. So if you are near San Francisco, it's still time to buy tickets. They cost $15 to $25. Entrance is free for children under 7."
The White race will not survive, if what the census bureau is projecting turns out to be true. White men cannot keep their penises in their pants. They will breed with Asian females, and hispanic females, and in some cases, black females, until the white race is completely eliminated. Similarly, white women will continue mating with blacks, and latinos. The white gene is recessive and all offspring produced in such interracial unions will be colored.
I can't say that I'll be heartbroken about you guys' departure. But it's just something to keep in mind
The IOC wants to allow transgenders in the Olympics. Will this competition allow robosexuals?
Physicist Hawking questioned over alleged abuse
Famed intellectual beaten, friends say
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) ? Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been questioned by detectives about alleged abuses that reportedly left him with a series of unexplained injuries, police said today.
Hawking, 62, who is paralysed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was interviewed Wednesday by Cambridgeshire police at Papworth Hospital, said force spokesperson Tony Taylorson.
It was the first time police have spoken to Hawking since opening an investigation late last year into reports that he suffered mysterious injuries, including a broken wrist, gashes to the face and a cut lip.
For more than 40 years, sclerosis has deprived the scientist of the ability to speak or to move, except for a few fingers he uses to operate a computerized voice box.
Despite his severe disabilities, Hawking is one of the world's best-known scientists. He serves as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton, and is author of the bestselling book A Brief History of Time.
In January, Hawking suffered from pneumonia and was admitted to Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge. He has since been moved to Papworth Hospital in the town of Papworth Everad.
"We spoke with Prof. Hawking for the first time on Wednesday in connection with allegations of abuse against him," said Taylorson. ``I can't say anything more about the case," which was opened late last year.
Hawking has dismissed allegations that he was assaulted or abused at his home in Cambridge as "completely false." Stories in the British press have contained sometimes lurid allegations attributed to unidentified nurses and others who have cared for him.
The scientist, who divorced his first wife after 26 years, married his nurse, Elaine Mason, 53, in 1995. The two now live in Cambridge near the university.
His former wife, Jane Hawking, who wrote a memoir about their time together, has urged police to investigate the reported abuses he suffered. Recently, she said she and their three adult children have long suspected that he had suffered repeated, unexplained assaults, some of them reported by his full-time nurses, but that he refused to take action.
During their investigation, Cambridgeshire police also are expected to question some of Hawking's previous nurses.