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Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
thepacketmaster learned of "...the possibility of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is considering an invitation to come work at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged to move to Ontario by his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok, the mathematical physicist who will take over as Perimeter's executive director on Oct. 1. Perimeter confirmed last night that it has made a standing offer to Hawking...Turok is leaving Cambridge after failing to persuade university authorities, research councils and sponsors to spend $40 million...By comparison, Waterloo's Perimeter Institute has about $600 million in funding...The addition of Hawking to Perimeter's staff of top physicists would be a major coup for the research institute, founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.'"
He's moving there to be closer to the headquarters of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers.
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how long it will take his little chair to get him there. Does that thing have snow treads?
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And the physicists left too!
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Can we get the computerized voice with a Canadian accent, eh?
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Don't you get it? If you die in Canada you die in real life!
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I never realized Stephen Hawking was British. He doesn't sound it....
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Stephen Hawking changed his mind about what he wanted to eat for lunch.
"At first I thought I wanted fish," said Mr. Hawkings, "but then I decided I did not want fish. I eventually went with spaghetti."
There is much debate in science-related blogs as well as in academia about the significance of this change.
I guess you don't know where Cambridge is. Must be an American.
Hawking will have his venerable voicebox replaced by one of Canadian manufacture, based on an amalgamation of Geddy Lee and Alex Trebek's voice, which automatically interjects "eh" every 8th word.
That sounds like a front organization for Aperture Science.
... at least the 'A' key, eh?
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Britain isn't in the the US, dumbass. It's in England.
Perhaps Balmer might be able to make a modified version
Computerized voice: "Steve, get your dirty hands off my chair."
"World's leading physicist moves to the university in the middle of nowhere"
I wonder...
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There's lots of movies with references to Waterloo, though they generally deal with this Napoleon guy, I guess he was a bigshot there.
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And his synthesized voice tool should really be outfitted with an English accent :)
need to speak French first then English to be legal over there? Or is that only in Quebec?
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Stop jumping to conclusions! User 243324 is correct: Hawking's potential move from the UK to Canada is clearly based upon US policy. It's the Republicans' fault, but the Democrats are no better, so he's going to pack his bags regardless of what happens in November. Plus, it proves astrology is correct. Take your nay-saying to Digg.com where it belongs!
I will not stand by and take this slander against my home and native land. I'll have you know that Canada has hundreds of buildings and has had them for decades now!
The funny thing is there is a Cambridge Ontario which just happens to border on Kitchener-Waterloo which is where Perimeter is. Wouldn't it be funny if he ends up moving from Cambridge to Cambridge? :)
Today class I have question for you: what is the distance between Cambridge and Cambridge. Does not compute is not an answer :)
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A big fuss about nothing anyway. Apparently, Hawking's colleague just wanted Steven to help him move.
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Actually, Canada got it's name when Jacques Cartier and company, well, mangled the St-Lawrence Iroquois word 'kanata,' which means 'town' or 'village.'
There's a sweet little 'Canadian Heritage' edvert that illustrates this as Cartier and company coming over a hill and meeting said Iroquois for the first time. The local elder offers to bring them to his village, repeatedly using the word 'kanata.' Cartier turns to a religious scholar, and asks for a translation. The scholar, having never heard this language before, stammers out something about 'Ka-na-da' being the name of the land. Meanwhile, an unlettered sailor is trying to convince them that the elder is specifically pointing at the village. "I'm *sure* he means those huts over there!"
You have to watch it to get the humor, I think. Mainly the looks on various faces.
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"People who live in Maine"... thats your problem. Very different from people *from* Maine. A lot of Maine is populated by New Yorkers that couldnt afford Long Island waterfront. They cant find Massachusetts on a map even though they drove through it to get to Maine, and they hit a few Starbucks there on the way.
Real Mainiacs can be identified by their large feet evolved for crossing snow drifts, know where they are relative to Canada just by sniffing the air, and can find the nearest unguarded border crossings using a mutated recessive gene. A Real Maniac, most importantly though, will pretend to look at the map you shove at them and give you a fiendishly crafted answer with the sole intended result of making you go back to New York and never returning. An answer like "What's Canada?" for instance...
There are at least 24 Cambridges in North America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_%28disambiguation%29
Talk about those creative pioneers.
If someone mentions any American town I could probably name the state it is in.
Springfield. :)