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Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes?
st1d writes "Looks like Steven Hawking might have to pay up on an old bet regarding black holes - seems his idea about them destroying information wasn't quite living up to his expectations: 'The about-turn might cost Hawking, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, an encyclopaedia because of a bet he made in 1997. More importantly, it might solve one of the long-standing puzzles in modern physics.' He's due to make a formal announcement July 21."
Boggle?
One for my homies and a props to the guy in the wheelchair!
FP?
j00 ar3 t3h gh3y!!
Steven hawking is now betting on which hole these arabs will be going in http://www.islamic.co.za
I wish Martin Rees loses this $1,000 bet:
Martin Rees predicts: "By 2020, bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event."
hampster instead of hamster
Here is your accordion, so goes the Far Side strip...
but at least now you know what the PREVIEW button is for.
IIRC, the loser had to buy the winner a copy of Penthouse.
This led me to Google "hot girls wheelchairs", which got me nothing. Apparently even teh intarweb has its limits...
Duh. Joke. Duh.
You have to admit, though, that the electronic voice box of his still speaks with more emotion then Kerry.
Especially those that "taught" English in college and have access to slashdot. ;-)
-truth
I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...
you don't get karma from Funny mods
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Dont you know - the terrorist use spam to send secret messages to each other. Thats why there are s much of it. They are using the practical theory that says that it impossible to find a needle in an haystack or in this case the message in all the spam.
Just saying it like it are.
I get mod points all the time (have some now, in fact) and I usually concentrate on modding up rather than downmodding.
/. is a social phenomenom, not just information.
Earlier in 2004, Samir Mathur of Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues showed that if a black hole is modelled according to string theory...
Go Buckeyes! Not just a football program! Neener neener!
Hold on I'll ask him. He's out back mowing my lawn.
His answer was "No hablo inglés", whatever that means.