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Stephen Hawking Dead at 76
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76
Science and the World has lost a great man.
Science and the World has lost a great man.
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I think he had a damn good run and left an incredible mark on the world.
I wonder how many doctors who gave him death timelines he outlived?
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I hope something comes after life just so he can talk with the other great minds the world has known, and to have all the answers to all of his questions answered.
I don't think there is anything after either, but one can hope he was wrong in this case and is somewhere better.
"I call it a Hawking Hole."
A brief history of rhyme. Rest in peace, Dr. Hawking.
l like to think how lucky he was to get so much life after the ALS diagnosis and how much crazy interesting stuff I don't really understand he got to put to paper.
I can't say I knew much about him as a person, but Hawking and Sagan were the best introductions to science for the sake of real enjoyment of it, instead of just to pass a class.
He'll be missed. Suck it 2018.
The resolve to look a death sentence in the face and spit on it, churning out science the likes of which humanity will be privileged if ever to see again.
Part of me hopes that NASA, Elon, someone can put his ashes/body in space, and point him at the nearest Black Hole. Use him as the metaphorical test for a question he spent a lifetime on: Can information ever escape a black hole?
Didn't we prove the answer to that was Yes, due to Hawking Radiation?
Edit: Maybe "prove" is too strong for science...
His very existence was a fuck you to detractors of both groups.
Losing him is pretty harsh.
5:35 is particularly brutal.
he certainly wasn't perfect, who of us is?
but he was a fuckin champ
I agree, hard to be sad about his death, when he had like 50 years more time than anyone thought he'd have given the disease.
This sucks, but I'd like to think he gave it a good run, and I think it's incredible he lasted as long as he did.
i wonder if Britain will allow a service or burial in Westminster
Then I saw that today is Pi Day.
Well of course you died today didn’t you, Stephen, you magnificent bastard.
True story: Stephen was a sci-fi geek and loved Star Trek. He jumped at the chance of guest appearing on the show and asked for a tour of the set while he was there.
When they got to engineering he stopped his chair in front of the warp core, looked up at it for a moment or two and said “I’m working on that.”
He was also, at his request, lifted into the Captain’s chair.
Anywhay not many people knew he had a singing career as well...
Holy shit that is amazing.
RIP you magnificent science troller.
As a reminder, he was born on the 300th anniversary of Galieo's death. Good days to on both ends.
NPR's All Things Considered had on a gentleman from Harvard's center for fundamental physics, or something like that.
You could hear the man holding back tears... And trying his best not to let the truly raunchy stories get out. But a few slipped. Holy shit, the thought of Hawking, surrounded by his nurses, heading into a strip club just sounds awesome.