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Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital
C S Miller writes "Not much more to add.
The BBC is reporting that 'Stephen Hawking is "very ill" in hospital.' He has had a few health scares before, and as a post-graduate he was told he didn't have much longer to live; he's now 67."
If we can launch him into space, and get him traveling fast enough, he'll seem to live nearly forever from our perspective.
Fry: Hey! Stephen Hawking! Aren't you that physicist that invented gravity?
Stephen Hawking: Sure. Why not?
I do hate it in this day and age, where people speculate before people die.
Call it speculation, but I'm pretty sure that the rules haven't changed in regards to death.
It's still 1 per person.
Let this be a lesson to all - graduating is hazardous to your health!
"Careful! We don't want to learn from this!" -Calvin & Hobbes
I didn't know Jack Chick was a reader here at Slashdot.
I to hope he pulls through also. This is one that I hope has no funny posts.
Fuck the creationists! Fu-Fuck the creationists!
Sadly, it's even worse. I heard he has considerable holdings of Sun stock.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hawking radiation hasn't been disproved, and you'd better hope for the sake of the planet that he's right about that one when the LHC starts back up.
I had the pleasure of seeing one of his lectures. This was before the breathing tube and voice synth. Honestly couldn't understand a word he was saying. One of his undergrads would translate for him. Went something like this:
Hawking: "hmm um mumb bllum blbl lun udn ummm mummb lum mum".
SomeGuy: "And we should see a large burst of gamma radiation."
I had a less than elegant friend with me who leaned over to me and whispered: "Wouldn't it be funny if the guy in the wheel chair was just some retarded kid and the other guy was a genius who didn't want noterity?"
I am Jack's medulla oblongata.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Please submit all patches in unified diff format, with all paths listed from the project root.
all that while being completely wheelchair bound and having a speech impediment.
Hey, most of us have American accents, you insensitive clod!
I am grateful for all that he has done in stealing knowledge from the unknown and delivering it to mankind. I know my own personal state of understanding owes him a great deal.
Hey, now. Don't say that too loudly, or the Unknown Knowledge Industry Association of America will sue him into silence.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Mr. Hawking has contributed man things to the fields of science and written some truly great books.
Can't fault someone that contributes man things.
Also, the tooth fairy isn't real. Sorry :-/
However! Don't you DARE insinuate that the holiest of holies, Santa Claus, is just a children's story! Your feeble words will only make my faith in dear Santa stronger! Evidence smevidence!
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Accept Jebus into your life!
Mathematics, Alchemy and Regular expressions will not save you from an eternity burning in the fires of hell!
You can't prove it is, so it's not.
Or is that you can't prove it's not, so it is?
Agh. This is why I don't like religion and conspiracy debates.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
My heart goes out to him and hopefully will get better.
Maybe if your heart actually went out to him, this whole crisis could be averted in time?
I hate to link to another post of mine in another thread, but I think it's appropriate here. I very much DO believe in intangible, imaginary friends, and frankly find myself MORE enlightened for trusting in my Gods to deliver me to the truth.
Some people call me wacko for that, but those people also invariably bask in the works my Gods have allowed to be through Their Divine Influence. Personally, I find it hypocritical, but not blasphemous. I would guess that blasphemy is hard to actually pull off in my religion, but I think it could be possible, if you try hard enough.
Hey, I'm just sayin, it's not as crazy as it sounds, when it's obviously true.
s/satan/santa/ There, I'm saved
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
I see God sitting down with Stephen, winking and then saying something like, "Hey, did you get what I did with that 10 dimension thing and how it really changes when you look at it in 11 dimensions. Trippy, right?"
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Besides, it's turtles all the way down.
Wow. That is a compelling excuse for slacking off you've got there.
May the Maths Be with you!
That doesn't appear to be Jesus. It reads more like a C'thulu cult site.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
It's not even accurate according to the bible, the only reason Christ wants you to accept him is so he can teach you to be happy and good. He doesn't actually ever say "accept me" he says "follow me."
In Jesus own words. "He who believes in me shall not perish but have everlasting life"
How about this one?
You really should accept Zeus as your personal God and savior. You're going to be really ticked when you get to Mt. Olympus and Holy Zeus scorches you with a lightning bolt for worshiping an imaginary god.