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Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery

Posted by timothy on from the buck-up-little-camper dept.

explosivejared writes "Yesterday we discussed the medical scare that physicist Stephen Hawking was going through. Happily, his website has posted a succinct statement that he is being kept for observation, but he is comfortable and expecting a full recovery."

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  1. Full Recovery? by dsginter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are any of us expected to make a full recovery?

    Life is the leading cause of death, ya know.

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  2. They finally checked on him by jbeaupre · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until then, it was 50-50. But as soon as the doctors observed him, the state of his health collapsed to one state: full recovery.

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    1. Re:They finally checked on him by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, Hawking's observed photon trace virtualized into a Hawking-antiHawking pair. AntiHawking fell into a black hole, and we're recovering Hawking.

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    2. Re:They finally checked on him by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

      AntiHawking fell into a black hole, and we're recovering Hawking.

      Wait a minute... Stephen Hawking didn't used to have a goatee... We saved the wrong one!

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  3. Re:Cannot be killed by conventional weapons by Bemopolis · · Score: 4, Funny

    GP had it right. Snide evolutionists don't bother asking such questions of Hawking. Since he's, you know, not a biologist.

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  4. Living, is a very dangerous activity . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . no one has been able to survive it yet.

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