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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."
It's still 1 per person.
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rewriting history since 2109
the other guy was a genius who didn't want noterity
Your English teacher must have been a Hawking of spelling.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Why can't this happen to some douche bag like Pat Robertson.
You spend a hell of a lot of time codifying your fairy tale. I would admire it if it wasn't such a prolific waste of life.
"The guy has achieved more than almost anyone on the planet"
Get real. Except for a few landmark papers VERY early in his career, he hasn't done anything special. He has a great marketing engine behind him, and he's good at selecting "assistant" writers to explain complex physics to the general public.
It's been decades since he's even peeked into the Top 100 physicists list (which is peer review based). His "achievements" are mostly honorary, and if he wasn't a cripple - he have been moved to the "has been" pile many many years ago.
Good for him to overcome his physical handicaps (and live way longer then predicted), but lets not start giving bonus points for scientific achievements based on the guys handicap (lets leave that to public schools).