It truly is wondrous just how stupid the average human being is.

Yep. And this site is loaded with a bunch of them. Garrett Bolles looks like a genius next to guys like you and Carcosa.

I don think he get it

If that's what you get out of my post, more power to ya.

And this is important why?

Actually I'm being funny and smart

It's a smart good post, idiot

Did you really come to Stephen Hawking's death thread for a lesson in astrophysics? Go read a book.

ed witten is twice the physicist that hawking was and he's still alive.

I'm certainly no authority on the most prominent physicists, but I have to imagine that there are quite a few guys out there doing really great work. Hawking was brilliant, but he gained a lot of celebrity due to his condition that elevated awareness of his work. Nothing wrong with that, but it's more an issue of who the next guy will be to really keep the public's imagination than who is actually making key discoveries.

Not saying he'll ever be the star the Hawking was, but Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the best bet.

Al Gore of course

Whenever a celebrity's RIP thread gets started, I don't think I've seen any "they didn't believe in God" or "so-and-so was better" type of posts. Typically, people post their RIPs, say what they liked about the person, and then go their merry way. I wonder what it is that makes people hate so much? It's like they have to bring him down a notch or make his life out to be less than it was. It's not just here, either. I've noticed a lot of this on social media.

Because many people are insecure about their religious beliefs and intelligence. For someone like that, he threatened both.

To be fair, how many celeb deaths have we gone through with vocal atheists or a life in the conversation regarding being a genius?

If we don't want criticism to come up in remembrance threads, we probably shouldn't invite sentiments that the deceased was superior to those of us remaining either.

And it's not like we haven't had vocal criticism in other spheres for the newly deceased. Billy Graham, Nancy Reagan, Margaret Thatcher spring immediately to mind.

simple explanation:

68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the universe.

It's not. The sun and all the stars rotate around the Earth, and scientific knowledge is useless to mankind.

Now go back to your sports and beer and forget about the rest. We'll take care of it.


:shake:

To be fair, that didn't say dick about the importance of it.

As a communicator? Sure. He's not doing much groundbreaking research these days though, as far as I know.

Michio Kaku's a nice blend of both researcher and communicator.

If a requirement to investigate our world was that the results of that investigation must have a directly-applicable purpose, we'd still be in the stone age.

Scientists figure shit out. It's the engineers' jobs to figure out what to do with it.

Without it we would DIE

That's true. Tyson is more Carl Sagan than Stephen Hawking.

you want to write a dissertation on a football BB?

If you dont get why thats important, then you should just move on to something simpler you might understand and enjoy, like a nice set of boobs.

You must be new here.

Billy Graham (and his death thread) haven't been in the ground yet for 3 weeks, and nobody remembers the planet dumping on him?

We should expect less when a rough equivalent humanist dies, but really, did anyone expect anything less?

I'm not sure if anyone could be named who CP wouldn't trash in their death thread. There's probably no one with any sort of notoriety that wouldn't get trashed here by a determined few.

Len Dawson, Randolph Scott

Joe Delaney tends to get a pass, too.

Astrophysics, just another topic on which BRC is the planet's foremost expert.

Gentlemen, I defy you, is there anything he can't do? What did we lowly chiefs fans do to deserve a modern incarnation of Einstein, Bohr, Plato, Aristotle, James Bond, Ron Jeremy and Steve McQueen all together walking among us?

Who? /CP

Ok, someone not affiliated with the Chiefs.

(And even then, it seems like the odds are against you)

I prefer Bourbon.

Loved him in Family Guy.

RIP

I didn't ask the initial question, and I don't want your dissertation. I just pointed out that you answered a question about why something was important with some shit that didn't say anything about its importance.

If you don't get that, then you should just move on to something simpler you might understand and enjoy, like a butt plug.

I'm interested in physics, but I also like the other topic.

Ah, see I was going to totally different route with it, and assuming Hawking had worked some non-linear time scale...so him saying a year might not be what we see as a year and in turn was taken out of context. Nevermind, I put too much into the original comment.

Are you really that stupid? Or you are just bringing your emotional jealousy into a RIP thread?

I'm always been into science and space. Been posting on this site and those threads for over a decade at least. I'm just trying to have a basic understanding of this complicated subject because my son is getting his doctorate in Astrophysics.

It was a cut and paste from the NASA website. They could explain it better than me. However, anyone who has taken a class in High school would know this basic information. So for you to assert this is some kind of bragger thing exposes you bringing your personal bias BS into a RIP thread.

I majored in boobs and beer in college.

Tyson has done more to promote learning of science, the pursuit of science than anyone else in the scientific community.

He is a "real" scientist but his "real" value is as a scientific communicator to the non-science person. Cosmos is coming back for a 2nd season. Science and astrophysics on national TV prime time. Without him, that never happens.

He is leaving a helluva legacy even if its not because of his personal scientific discoveries.

l was curious too. I googled and found this USA Today article. Spoiler alert, they don’t know but maybe something to do with being diagnosed at 21 instead of 40-70 like most people.

We have found that the survival in younger patients is strikingly better and is measured in many years — in some cases more than 10," said King's College clinical neurology professor Nigel Leigh in the article. "Among people in their 50s and 60s, there is a 50% chance of surviving four years or so. It is a different beast if you start young, oddly, and no one knows why."
Pam Shaw, a professor of neurology at England's University of Sheffield, told the journal she, too, wasn't sure why Hawking survived so long.

"The older you are the quicker the disease course tends to be, but we don't really have a handle on why some people survive for longer periods than others. I wish we did," she said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...als/423313002/

RANDOLPH SCOTT!

/stands, places hat over heart

My dad passed from ALS in January. ALS is a mother ****er.

When Lenny croaks, hopefully many years from now, we can have a discussion if he really has skeletons in the closet.

No he's not.

He's no Donald Trump. That's for sure.

Well even Hawking called that "rubbish."

Please keep the politics in DC, Mr. eDave.

Thank you. I appreciate your support.

Yeah I know.

He never wrote ONE book about sasquatch either.

Who's god? The christian god? YOUR god? Why not Allah? Why not Thor?

Hawking took shits smarter than you, so try not to throw too much shade around.

Have you read any of his material? Ever? I kinda doubt it. I kinda imagine you don't know anything about him other than "He doesn't believe in my personal idea of god! What an eeeejit!"

Vapid.

Tyson likes to imagine himself as some combination of Sagan, Einstein, and Yoda.

I find him pretty obnoxious actually.

Yeah, and the terrifying thing is that HALF of the people are even dumber than that.

Hawking wasn't even viewed by his peers as the smartest person in our lifetime. Look into it. He was smart, no denying it. But he was also a great media poster boy for science. Just because the press heralded him as the smartest guy in the world, it didn't make it so. Many in his field would, and have, said as much.

He was dealt a crappy hand in life and he didn't let it stop him. Rest in peace and all that, but let's not deify him just yet.

sorry man. That’s no way to go out.:shake:

You must remember this wabblrwouser's not in the same universe we are, an intelligent thought is outside his grasp.

http://big5kayakchallenge.com/wp-con...purge-meme.jpg

:harumph:

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"There is no God"
-Stephen Hawking 2011



"There is no Stephen Hawking"
-God 2018


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Because people are hypersensitive ****ing idiots.

That is pretty damn stupid. People offended by that comment need to drink antifreeze.

You don't see how it might be offensive to disabled people to describe their deaths as "freedom"?

I know she meant well, but her comment betrays a pretty backwards understanding of disability.

Yeah, not sure how hypersensitive is an objectively inferior form of sensitive.

I suggest Toyota's It's cherry flavored.

Haha! Rep coming your way.

:D:D:DI am interested to know what will happen to his wheel chair:D:D:D

Not sure what the smileys are all about, but I'd guess it'll end up in the possession of a museum at some point.

It would be the one thing I would not want to be remembered as... but they will do just that...

Where is FDR's chair?

It’s at the FDR presidential library and museum.

Oh there is a Stephen Hawking alright, he is just not resting in peace assuming here of course he rejected Jesus as Lord and Savior even on his death bed.

Romans 1:19-25

19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/hodge/theology1.iv.i.i.html

In my defense I was passing on a joke, not making sure hades is handicap accessible.

:facepalm:

Yep.

Take this make believe bullshit to DC

I knew of the statue of him sitting in a wheel chair at his memorial, wasn't sure where the chair was. It isn't something that comes up in conversation on a daily basis.

Once again,, a man who never really wanted to be seen in a wheel chair having a bronze statue of him in a wheelchair funded by disabled people on public display. Something tells me that he might disapprove.

These idiots can have a debate if they are in heaven or hell watching what's happening. Hawkin's would tell you; Just moving from one form of matter to the next.

At least no one here is saying he will be reincarnated as the dog of a poor man because he believed in science.

FFS.

You're a real piece of work. Funny thing is, if there is a Christian God, you're burning in hell.

Oh, there is. And he snapped his fingers and the Earth popped out about 600 years ago. Read a book or something man.

Chiefshirink don’t send me a rep message telling me I believe matter came out of nothing and to think about it and then think about what make believe is. You have no ****ing clue what I believe or think.

I do know some make believe deity that came from nothing made something from nothing. Throughout history there have been 100’s of gods and goddesses. They have all been proved to be bullshit, so what makes you really think the religion you have chosen is the one who has the real god after all others have been proven fake

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lol shut the **** up

Did you get the trusty ol' threat of Pascal's Wager too? Hawking's death is really bringing out the insecurity in some of these knuckleheads....

It was something about “physical matter created the world and humans out of nothing.” Telling me to think about that and then ask myself what is make believe.

I don’t really give a shit if people are religious. My kids and parents all believe in god. I just don’t. But whenever you stand over a dead person thumping your Bible about him going to an eternal hell because he didn’t believe, that’s when it becomes nothing but bullshit. Stand there high and mighty because you believe in some made up god and then pound your chest that you are saved and other people are damned, that is a ****ing joke.