dead Stephen Hawking

[Canadian Paul 97]

Professor Hawking wants to go into space with the bearded twat, Richard Branson. I wonder if he'll take his 'Gimp Cradle' with him, or rely on zero gravity to support him.

 

Sounds familiar.

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Gah! Thanks CP.

 

 

 

I'll be honest, it was a desperate attempt to create a google search result for 'gimp cradle'

[Canadian Paul 97]

Gah! Thanks CP.

 

I'll be honest, it was a desperate attempt to create a google search result for 'gimp cradle'

 

Are you sure it wasn't to create one for "bearded twat?"

 

In any case, I think it's a bit optimistic. From the program I saw the other day, he's even got trouble blinking now. Senior citizenship will not be kind to him.

[Real Madron 6]

Hawking going flying

[Monoclinic 39]

Hawking going flying

 

Is this the physicists equivalent of ligging?

 

In case you have forgotten the definition of this popular '90s term!

 

 

I also have a question to pop to you, probably more semantics than anything. If one is almost entirely paralyzed how exactly does one go about feeling weightlessness or has this factor been overlooked?

[maryportfuncity 10,654]

I think we're missing the point if we concentrate just on the physicality of this. As a comparison it's worth looking at Tammy Duckworth's web site, in particular her page on Amputee Flying

 

Tammy was a helicopter pilot who lost pretty much all of her legs and a fair bit of hip to a well aimed insurgent RPG in Iraq. Since when she's come close to becoming a US congresswoman and campaigned against the war. She's an advocate of amputee flying but the more you look into this world it's less a case of people who live to fly and more a case of doing it because they can and because it makes a statement about affirming life, or summat.

[Banshees Scream 110]

Hawking going flying

 

It is a mystery to me, only because under validation you have to be in atleast somewhat good health to go on a flight like this. I'm guessing for the rich they make certain exceptions?

[maryportfuncity 10,654]

Certain exceptions indeed, what next, a movie with Jenna Jameson?

[Banshees Scream 110]

Certain exceptions indeed, what next, a movie with Jenna Jameson?

 

With this broad I remember reading how she bragged with confidence that she could make probably double her salary without even taking her cloths off. I don't think so, but when you got a name, the prestige is always there.

[Real Madron 6]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

Clive Dunn would no doubt still be alive when the spaceship arrived.

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Bear in mind the fact that the space ship in your example is using technology developed in the 1920's and 1940's. What Hawking (rather optomistically) posits is the idea that mankind can survive long enough, evolve far enough and think hard enough to be able to move to new levels of physical science and thus develop a means of travelling to these other planets within a sensible timeframe.

 

P.S. I like the 'as long as you leave at night!'

 

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Which has worked! Huzzah!

 

Gah! Thanks CP.

 

 

 

I'll be honest, it was a desperate attempt to create a google search result for 'gimp cradle'

[maryportfuncity 10,654]

What's black and sits upstairs?

 

Steven Hawking in a burning building!

[Banshees Scream 110]

What's black and sits upstairs?

 

Rev. Al Sharpton watching the re - runs of his interviews. It is real bullshit. The man wears thousand dollar suits and every time the slightest conflict hits the news and occurs involving a black person, you have to see his face.

 

It's how he makes his money.

 

(I know it's off topic'

[Twelvetrees 10]

Hey, I was just thinking. Does anyone know where I can buy a new camera?

[Banshees Scream 110]

Last night I was watching his career biography and on top of that another special on the 'Black Holes' phenomena which could be a extensive breakthrough in Science once they learn more about it. Anyway some young physicist is Hawking's tool and chalk board specialist who communicates with Stephen by his winks and blinks. From my judgment he is sitting dead and five years maximum is the toll. A one way ticket for next year if anybody.

 

But talking black holes, some scientists believe they are microscopic and on earth, possibly in the same room with you?. I would rather believe one lives in 'The Bermuda Triangle' which would explain the unexplained circumstances that have been going down there for centuries. One guy said a connection through earth could be between Bermuda and Dragons triangle, I excluded this theory in a few minutes.

 

The greatest question of all is - If a human being or anything from earth pass through a black hole are you flamed to nothing in seconds or are you transported to another place in time? Or another dimension?

 

Another documentary with the Bermuda Triangle I saw was some pilot who claimed to glide through an electric cloud which took him somewhere in a few minutes where regularly it would have took him a few hours. Is this an example of what these 'Black Holes' are about? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know something is going on there, it's not a myth it's pretty much common sense.

 

I would forget about Mars, it's just a rock. If we learn to understand Black Holes it could set whole new standards.

[Teddy 21]

Last night I was watching his career biography and on top of that another special on the 'Black Holes' phenomena which could be a extensive breakthrough in Science once they learn more about it. Anyway some young physicist is Hawking's tool and chalk board specialist who communicates with Stephen by his winks and blinks. ...

 

So, a severe case of conjunctivitis could re-write physics as we know it....

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

Last night I was watching his career biography and on top of that another special on the 'Black Holes' phenomena which could be a extensive breakthrough in Science once they learn more about it. Anyway some young physicist is Hawking's tool and chalk board specialist who communicates with Stephen by his winks and blinks. ...

 

So, a severe case of conjunctivitis could re-write physics as we know it....

 

Maybe this young physicist doesn't understand at all. If a man started winking at me on a regular basis I think it would be backs to the wall.

 

DWB

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

 

 

When warp speed is finally invented these travel times will be much less. That's like someone in 1150 saying "noone could ever go to australia it would take me 100 years to walk there"!

[Olveres 8]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

 

 

When warp speed is finally invented these travel times will be much less. That's like someone in 1150 saying "noone could ever go to australia it would take me 100 years to walk there"!

 

If someone in 1150 had said that they'd have been burned at the stake, Australia hadn't been discovered!!!

[Guest Guest]

Australia hadn't been discovered!!!

 

Ah, happier times...

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Doesn't a Brief History of Time Fly when your having fun?

 

If Hawking's so f*****g clever why does he go on about humans living on other planets, which is pretty much un-possible. Apparently it would take a space ship 6 months to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. The next closest star besides the Sun is something called Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, or 262,500 times further than the Sun. If the Sun is 93 million miles away, then, so long as you left at night, it would take 18 months to get there. To get to the next closer star would take 3,150,000 years.

 

Dumbass.

 

 

When warp speed is finally invented these travel times will be much less. That's like someone in 1150 saying "noone could ever go to australia it would take me 100 years to walk there"!

 

Well, if it was Leif Ericson (970-1020 AD) or some other Norse guy, they'd have sailed it, and assuming they had good enough maps to even know there was an Australia would probably be able to figure out approx. how long it would take.

[Monoclinic 39]

Rumour has it there were people down under before we started sending convicts. As to how they got there is still widely debated but there are some that believe polynesian people arrived in the pacifc on rafts. Then there is evidence of 14th century Portuguese cannons in north Australia.

 

I know this is pretty much like talking about Patrick Moore in the weather thread but I just thought I'd see what other people think about how the migration of the original inhabitants occured.