Nicker on 14/3/2018 at 04:32
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008) Stephen Hawking dies at age 76.
"It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love."
Coincidentally, he died on Pi Day, March 14th.
icemann on 14/3/2018 at 05:36
R.I.P. One of a kind.
Sulphur on 14/3/2018 at 06:46
I remember when I was essentially living in my school library once after having read Asimov's easy-to-understand books on physics, then dipping into Broca's Brain and Cosmos by Carl Sagan, and finally discovering A Brief History of Time on a bookshelf, all within a few months of each other. That's one of the most potent combinations you could expose an inquisitive young mind to, and the sense of being blown away by what the universe harboured, how it behaved, and what the future could look like with a better understanding of it has never been equalled by any author since. These guys were foundational to my growing up.
Now the last of them has passed away, and it falls to someone else to step up to the plate, to ensure that we never lose that sense of wonder and magic at all that exists beyond the limits of our terrestrial vision.
Rest in peace, Stephen Hawking. You're one with time and space now.
Medlar on 14/3/2018 at 11:15
RIP Professor Hawking, a great man with a dreadful disability that did not diminish his brilliance.
Tommyph1208 on 14/3/2018 at 11:48
What a champ... Imagine getting a death sentence at 21 then going on to becoming a science legend and die at 76... RIP mr. Super Computer
icemann on 15/3/2018 at 00:17
This one is my favorite appearance of him on TV:
[video=youtube;nEa7CfPaCRw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEa7CfPaCRw[/video]
He looks like he was having an absolute ball.
Tocky on 15/3/2018 at 04:48
The intelligent leave us while the ignorant cling like a crust of barnacles pulling the ship ever closer to the water line just waiting for the next wave to swamp us.
SubJeff on 16/3/2018 at 19:54
Err, he outlived his initial prognosis by several decades Tocky.
RIP