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Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-canada dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Its our by Smidge207 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its our national healthcare system.

    Hope it beats you're [sic] national grammar system.

    =Smidge=

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  2. who in their right mind by vajaradakini · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who in their right mind would want to move to Waterloo?

    I mean, really, the university isn't even the best in Ontario, let alone the country and Waterloo itself is in the middle of nowhere.

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  3. Re:One reason: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Right. Another gimp foreigner we Canadians have to support.

  4. Re:yes but there was a difference. by denis-The-menace · · Score: 0, Troll

    genocide? currently, no.
    Later, maybe but you'd have to have oil or something.
    All you guys need now is Marshall law and you have a fascist state.
    Think about it:
    -Media is controlled
    -they have an internal surveillance system
    -Corps can do anything (FISA, DMCA, laws for sale)
    -You have a gulag (GuantÃnamo)
    -You have Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

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  5. Re:yes but there was a difference. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i dont believe you asked anyone with even a Junior High School diploma that question.

    asking your inbred children isn't a good estimate of the rest of society.

  6. Re:Didn't... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And the physicists left too!

    Just the Judish ones..

  7. Re:yes but there was a difference. by mrdarreng · · Score: 0, Troll

    They sound too dumb to be yanks. Maybe they were Canadians who accidentally moved too far South?