Stephen Hawking

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Did anyone catch the special on the Discovery Channel tonight?? An EXCELLENT documentary on Stephen Hawking underscoring his finest work and some very cool 3D animations! Anyone who has read his book would have definitely eaten this up!

Hope it airs again soon for those who missed it.

Cheers yawls!

[dashx]

Excellent

[lucky37]

That guy with the bubbles stole the show...

[benoit.baril]

Not bad for a guy who sits in a chair all day.
P.S: I'm not the one who said it - see below!

Brant Charles' commencement speech to MIT

I’m Brant Charles, and 14 years ago I was just like you. Now I’m a meta-physicist.

Being a meta-physicist is awesome and it isn’t even hard. Newton discovered gravity whilst lounging under a tree. Einstein came up with most of his theories by daydreaming. Stephen Hawking just sits in a chair all day.

And the stuff we do is fun, too. Galileo? Dropping the feather and the cannonball? Shit, man - I could do that stuff all day. And we get to play the coolest pranks. That Hadron Collider thing? Not even real. You would not believe how awesome it feels to make everyone on the entire planet shit themselves because they think you’re building a black hole machine.

Guess what? We have time machines. And they’re better than you’d believe by about 50 better-points, which are a unit of measurement we haven’t even told you about. Just yesterday? I played virtual reality ping-pong on Jupiter. You guys think it’s cool to go to the moon? Wait until you visit an alien culture whose customary greeting to guests is to give them a basket of gold coins and a jetpack.

I’m meant to teach you guys some kind of life-lesson before I go. Screw that. I’m gonna teach you the life-lesson. As in the meaning of it. Be careful. This is dangerous territory. Your head might explode or your face might melt or I don’t know I’m not some stupid biologist, okay? So there are these things called string- no. Too late. I can see the blood dripping out of your ears. Well, no big deal. There’s an asteroid headed this way in a couple of years and we’re kind of don’t have any tickets left for the shuttle outta here. They all went to the super-models, if you know what I’m saying.

Well, good luck in your new liquified-brain, doomed-Earth lives. Oh, and one last note? This entire speech is a palindrome.

http://bullshit.tumblr.com/post/6744193 ... ech-to-mit

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That guy with the bubbles stole the show...

That was awesome!

Also, for you fellow space geeks, the new OASIS HD station has been running this doc' showing fantastic imagery from the Hubble telescope over the last 20yrs. The show is called "Hubble's Canvas". Check it out chumps

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And for all you gamers, keep an eye out on the shelves for this hot new swag!