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Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery
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."
Are any of us expected to make a full recovery?
Life is the leading cause of death, ya know.
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Otherwise, this utopia would be more like a Fruitopia.
I'm not cool enough to have a
Just kidding! I'm really glad he's on the mend.
I have nothing compelling to say
... but I admire his skill when it comes to explaing the complicated stuff to the masses. Go Stephen!
The man is a survivor, that is for sure. I saw him lecture a few months ago, and is still on form. He will still answer the dumbest questions from any snide creationist or just plain ignorant member of the public - even though it took him considerable effort to compose a response.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
But still, there's not reason to help death on its rounds...
I, for one, am glad Professor Hawking is expected to recover.
The fact that he has lived this long with this disease when almost everyone else would have passed a long time ago is a miracle in itself.
Every time you call tech support, a little kitten dies.
So he's going to be up and out of that wheelchair in no time, eh?
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.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
First we hear that he's near death, now he's going to recover... it's almost as if he got trapped in a black hole, and was only able to escape by spawning an anti-Hawking to be left inside... yes, that's the only thing that makes sense.
Way to go Hawking, keep on kickin'!!
Ooooo, is that in bad taste?
Perhaps he found the cure for ALS...shred all his grant money and inject himself with it.
Comfortable and expecting to make a full recovery --- As comfortable as a dying man can be I'm sure. Makes me wonder why he'd even want to recover. What amazes me most is his strong will to live - going from being a graduate student with a prognoses of months to live to living years and beating major odds. My thoughts are with you Mr. Hawking - here's to a speedy recovery.
"i lost my dignity on a slippery wiener"
Obviously Dr. Hawking will recover - he has not yet found a full Grand Unified Theory integrating quantum mechanics and gravity. That's the deal he made with Death - he gets to have that theory published before he dies.
A much better gambit than challenging The Grim Reaper to chess. Or Twister, even.
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Seriously - get well soon sir, and keep on thinking free.
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'Nuff said.
rj
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You guys crack me up: "natural20"
I wish I would make those saves when i come down with a flu, but then again i'm not as badass as Stephen Hawking.
Cheers.
Comfortable and expecting to make a full recovery --- As comfortable as a dying man can be I'm sure. Makes me wonder why he'd even want to recover.
First thing - we're all dying. Right now. Sure, Mr. Hawking has a name for what he's dying from and you don't (yet), but mortality is pretty much a constant. Just because your fate hasn't been given a label yet doesn't mean you don't have one. You do, just like everyone else. Including Mr. Hawking. I hope you're "as comfortable" as you can be too.
Second thing. Any sick person wants to recover. And that means you too. I guarantee if you were in a similar state you'd want to live just as much as...well, as anyone else. There's more to life than being able to walk around the block. There's art, music, science, math, and a host of other things you don't need a functioning body to enjoy.
My best friend from college has crippling MS. He's wheelchair bound. And he's one of the craziest and most fun people I've ever known. And at the time had an astonishingly hot girlfriend.
Life has far bigger parameters than you imply.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Amen!
I'm glad he's going to be okay! And this is so much better than putting him in a completely isolated box and thinking, with uncertainty, "well, he's probably...".
I am very glad to hear that he is recovering from the immediate health concerns. Despite his age combined with his Lou Gehrig's disease, he potentially has so much more to offer the scientific world specifically and humanity in general. His mind is clear and simply, utterly amazing.
It should be said that through his book, A Brief History of Time, that he has encourage many people otherwise ignorant of science to not only better understand our universe but to do so with enjoyment and sometimes passion. It is not too often that a scientist can elicit that level of societal consciousness.
It would be a shame for him to become fully incapacitated or die and eliminate the greatest modern looking-glass into the world of physics and science.
I'm glad to hear it.
These things are relative, of course: Professor Hawking's "good health" is a serious illness by most usual standards. He's not a young man, either.
Nevertheless, I wish him well.
...laura
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"Your questions fails for the following reasons:
Creationism
Snide
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Answered in Intro Biology page 43.
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That is EXACTLY what I thought.
Stephen Hawking is proof that there is no god. no god would make such an incredibly intelligent man suffer from his condition for 40 years, while letting another incredibly stupid man run the united states for 8 years. if there was a god, those roles would have been reversed and bush would have died at 21.
The end is naught nigh
. . . no one has been able to survive it yet.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
"...I win again!"
(Title track on the next MC Hawking album.)
Back off, Grim Reaper! The Hawkman has business to take care of.
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Almost was.
The Vice Presidential Action Rangers were already down one!
There's a difference between expecting to make a full recovery and expected to make a full recovery.
Run for the hills
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This is great news.
Seems like a good time to note that it's my humble belief that Newtonian gravity
should be multiplied by a cosine with a wavelength about as long as a galaxy is wide,
due to a low-energy wave expression via rotating gravity force vectors from gravitons.
It's apparently why ring galaxies arise. Take a look at Hoag's galaxy if you want to see
a well-developed ring.
I've one-upped Einstein, thanks in no small part to public-domain images from the Hubble
Space Telescope.