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Stephen Hawking Going To Canada
thepacketmaster writes "A previous Slashdot article I posted mentioned the possibility of Stephen Hawking coming to Canada. The Toronto Star now reports that he has accepted the position. Hawking will hold the title of distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics."
First post, written using a clicker from my wheelchair. MC Hawking in da house, bitches!
Never heard of it.
Good, he's probably due for an upgrade.
At least if he ever gives lectures and they start to fall asleep, he can shoot lasers out of his eyeballs.
I seem to recall that he did a lot of research into black holes. Maybe he's done studying now and is leaving the country so he can get outside the event horizon to publish his findings.
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He's probably moving there to study the event horizon surrounding a certain black hole, otherwise known as the US financial market.
We poured over $700 billion into it, and I doubt even he will discover Hawking radiation leaking out. Maybe a few nickels, but that's it.
I think I see a flaw in your logic... See, crossing the US/Canada border *is* the event horizon. At that point hawking will split into a finite number of hawkings will cross the event horizon, while an equal number of anti-hawkings will stay inside. I'm guessing they'll head to Ohio as soon as they figure out their better halves are sitting down for tea.
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We don't need him in the U.S.A. The world ends in four years and a month anyway.
distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
I don't know, a research chair sounds a bit dangerous, however distinguished it may be. I think he better stick with his current chair until this new one is at least in beta testing...
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Our plan is to give him free health care and poutine, and see which one wins.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
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"...a finite number of hawkings will cross the event horizon, while an equal number of anti-hawkings will stay inside."
And they'll be easily distinguishable as the anti-Hawkings are all evil and have goatees.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Unfitter, unhappier, less productive?
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Maybe future Blackberries will start talking to you in an interesting new voice.
High with our current Prime Minister.
The way I see it is Canadians have a very severe lack of easily available guns. I think we should deport the Michigan Militia to Canada, so they can bring their public schools up to American standards.
Alas, until the Californians put an Austrian in the Governor's chair, college was free in California. Still, if Palin get elected in 2012, I'm heading for Canada.
Well, at least now the phrase "Slower than Steven Hawking in a snowstorm" might actually have some basis in fact.
Do you mean the University post, or the one with wheels and an electric motor?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hence the obligatory, "is that hunting rifle in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"
I'm not sure what this says about Taiwan, but the figures seem to suggest that almost as many people die there as a result of accidents with guns as are killed in firearm-related homicides.
Of course, their total firearm homicide per capita rate is less than 1/20th of that in the United States, so perhaps the figures just show that no-one in Taiwan is quite sure how to use a gun.