Spaceman Spiff Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSkin Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Brilliant man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogofWar1 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Rest in Peace. He helped us to better understand the universe and as we progress forward as a species we are in his debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacase Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Sad day. Brilliant man who beat the odds. I know he didn't believe in heaven or the afterlife, but I hope he rests in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSkin Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It's intimidating to try and offer up any words for him. I'm not ashamed to say that a lot of what he studied and taught was beyond my intellect, and attention span. It's safe to say he was a genius, among geniuses. Tyson was the first person I thought of reacting when I saw the news, and I knew he'd have something to say pretty quickly, in a poetic, puzzling, physics-y way. RIP He's free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 What an incredible man. His contributions to humanity will live on forever. To accomplish what he did given his debilitating physical condition is nothing short of a miracle. RIP Stephen Hawking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Rest In Peace, Mr Hawking. One of the greatest physicists to ever live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 RIP to one of the great men of letters and numbers of his age. He also did a lot to raise awareness about and put a human face on ALS. He'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 He’s stardust now. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I read A Brief History of Time and it made me feel really smart (briefly). Thank you Mr. Hawking, Rest in Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Yeah, that was an incredibly well-written book for novices like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 RIP Mr. Hawking Thank you not only for your brilliance, but for the laughs from all your sitcom appearances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Rest in Power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 when i was in grad school (in the mid 90s), one saturday i was in my office trying to study for prelims. It was miserable. sucked. i stood up, and left my books just to stretch my legs, (and temporarily flee the torture). I went to a alley/courtyard wedged between a bunch of buildings, 2 stories below ground level, that was almost always empty. When i went around the corner, there was a guy in the middle of the space, alone, in a wheelchair, looking calmly at me. I stopped in my tracks , did a double take.... because it looked just like stephen hawking. but you know, i didn't want to be THAT guy. the guy that thinks every guy with ALS must be stephen hawking. The guy that thinks that every black man they see looks like "that dude from NWA". the guy that asks every asian person he ever meets if they possibly knew William Chang, a chinese guy they once met..... I didn't want to be THAT guy. so after i caught myself staring like a slack-jawed cleetus for a long couple of seconds....... i collected my wits, smiled, said hi, and passed on by. I found out that Stephen Hawking had come to campus to hear some OTHER grad student's presentation on some phenomenon that i will never for the life of me understand (talk about amping up the pressure at your department's seminar series!). I have no idea how, or why, he got from somewhere in the physics department to alone in an isolated courtyard in the middle of the social sciences complex.... ? but, it was cool RIP Professor Hawking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 On the anniversary of Marx's death and Einstein's birth, no less - three men I've come to admire for their own reasons. I remember watching a program Hawking produced on the Discovery Channel back when I was in college: "Into the Universe." I very much enjoyed it. I'll have to see if it's been uploaded on YouTube or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mournblade Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Amazing, and fortuitous, that he lived such a long time. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 RIP to one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Its a tragedy that he's taken from us while so many idiots get to live forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PokerPacker Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 A big loss for mankind today. We were so lucky to have him for as long as we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 RIP. The Theory of Everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mournblade Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 And by the way, THIS is a man worth mourning. A TRUE celebrity. Not some no-talent fool like Brittany Spears or Justin Bieber (hopefully there are no threads about them when they pass, but I suspect in this forum, there will be). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 23 minutes ago, Mournblade said: And by the way, THIS is a man worth mourning. A TRUE celebrity. Not some no-talent fool like Brittany Spears or Justin Bieber (hopefully there are no threads about them when they pass, but I suspect in this forum, there will be). Making your point with a sledge hammer is not always so effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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