If you haven't read it yet, give 'A Brief History of Time' a read. Even if you're not a big book reader, it's only about 250 pages. Great way to pay respects to this legendary man.
Stephen Hawking has died
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#92He was 76, for a man not expected to make it out of his 20's I think he did okay. It's a sad loss for science, but he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time. His passing is perhaps more humane - I don't know though, humaneness is in the eye of the person living it.
>> he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time.
Well, now he lost any kind of ability to communicate.
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#93He was a true inspiration and showed how much we can be defined by our thoughts, not just our physical presence
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reads like a pre-prepared obituary. No additional information regarding his death.
Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written. Newspapers keep such pre-prepared obituaries of famous people on-hand so that they can publish them instantly if that person happens to die. Any newspapers who don't do this will lose the all-important race for publication to newspapers that do.
And because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
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#96“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” -- Stephen Hawking
He did so much. RIP Stephen. Thanks for what you shared with us.
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#97The world will always remember him even after centuries
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#98Pi Day
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#99The world will miss you, Stephen.
I'm going to rewatch Hawking tonight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395571/).
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#100He was 76, for a man not expected to make it out of his 20's I think he did okay. It's a sad loss for science, but he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time. His passing is perhaps more humane - I don't know though, humaneness is in the eye of the person living it.
>> he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time. Well, now he lost any kind of ability to communicate.
Well, two-way communication, sure. But his words and ideas will continue to be communicated for a very long time.
He is one of the very rare human beings whose names will never be forgotten.