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New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works
Simon Behler writes "The Sunday Times is reporting that Stephen Hawking is making a new movie. FTA: 'Professor Stephen Hawking, Britain's world-renowned physicist, is to switch from theories of multidimensional space to the three dimensions of the Imax cinema by starring in a film that sets out his ideas on the origins and fate of the universe. The film, Beyond the Horizon, will tackle some of the most daunting theories espoused by Hawking and other cosmologists, from the idea that space has up to 11 dimensions to the cause of the big bang itself.'"
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Why are they even making a film? The BBC did an excellent TV series about his life, it was not only entertaining but showed his youth which many people arn't aware of.
I like muppets.
IANAP but I happened to chat with a real string theory
theorist recently, he did not seem at all impressed with
Hawking.
Anything that sparks the interest of a student or anyone
to enter science is a fine thing. I'm looking forward to
it even though the artists rendition of 11 dimensions will
likely be more psycadelic than mathematically accurate.
You, sir, are a fucking idiot.
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood because my pet just died, but isn't it depressing that all of the medical technology in the world can't give one of the greatest minds in the world a semblence of a healthy body?
Still, it's good that such a smart man is getting all of this media attention. The world could use more role models in movies, instead of relying on the ones that take steroids to break sports records.
Oh You POS
It's not like the medical technology we have today is miraculous. Advanced, yes, but medicine is still a work in progress, and probably always will be. People still die of all sorts of things we can't cure, and sometimes can't even slow down. That's not likely to change anytime soon, and what advances we do make will inevitably be slow.
I wouldn't call that depressing. I'd call that reality.
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Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood because my pet just died, but isn't it depressing that all of the medical technology in the world can't give one of the greatest minds in the world a semblence of a healthy body?
You know, just because technology doesn't give Hawking the body of Arnold Schwarzeneger doesn't mean it didn't help: without technology, Hawking would probably have ended up in a rocking chair, his family taking his motionless, speechless body for that of a gibbering imbecile. Instead of that, his power wheelchair give him a semblance of mobility, and his speech box give him the ability to express himself. So in reality, technology gave us one of the greatest mind in the world.
As for movies, Stephen hawking did play in Star Trek TNG. Granted, it wasn't a Jackie Chan role, but still...
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You think you're cute, bitch, but you'll be thinking otherwise when you see MC Hawking roll up with Samuel L Jackson and Ice Cube in their '64 and bust a few caps in your ass with their A-Ks.
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