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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: ToxicAdam on June 15, 2018, 10:36:43 AM

Title: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 15, 2018, 10:36:43 AM: Was there a more overrated scientist of the past century?

He gets to be buried between Darwin and Newton, while greats like Sandage, Sanger and James Watson are unknowns to the general person.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-hawking-to-be-buried-between-darwin-and-newton
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: tiesto on June 15, 2018, 10:51:18 AM: A few years ago I interviewed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the interviewees told me they frequently see Watson around, he'll sit and talk with them and is pretty open (though apparently he's starting to go a tad senile in his old age)
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 15, 2018, 11:02:11 AM: Hawking was one of the greats, easily up there with Bill Nye the Science Guy and Mr. Wizard.
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Spieler1 on June 15, 2018, 12:13:04 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 15, 2018, 11:02:11 AM
Hawking was one of the greats, easily up there with Bill Nye the Science Guy and Mr. Wizard.

You know the greats, because they were on The Big Bang Theory.

(I have way too little knowledge in natural sciences to judge the guy's work, but his gigantic presence in popular media couldn't possibly have been the same).
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: thisismyusername on June 15, 2018, 03:25:19 PM: I dunno about his popular opinion, but he has a theory on blackholes (Hawking Energy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_energy)), like Einstein and Newton. So... :yeshrug

Quote from: Exodust on June 15, 2018, 11:06:42 AM
Barely relatable, but it always cracks me up how Neil deGrasse Tyson can't imagine a Sci-Fi movie not being factual. Can't wait till he starts reviewing videogames like sorry gamers, but Final Fantasy has no regard for scientific fact.

Speaking of Tyson, he doesn't have a theory. So if Hawing was able-bodied, he'd still be better than Tyson. :doge
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: BlueTsunami on June 15, 2018, 04:44:51 PM: Yes he would be Stephen Walkins
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Mandark on June 15, 2018, 04:47:41 PM: Citing James Watson and not Rosalind Franklin as an unrecognized scientist.

:bolo
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 15, 2018, 04:49:47 PM: What if he was a black trans woman? :thinking
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Kara on June 15, 2018, 05:38:20 PM: I don't wish to engage with the ableist hypothesis proffered in the OP, but for sure the guy didn't work in the one true science of Marxism-Leninism.
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: kingv on June 15, 2018, 06:28:15 PM: If he was able-bodied he would have been jerking off into women’s hair at the movie theatre.
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Dickie Dee on June 15, 2018, 06:43:32 PM: Quote from: Mandark on June 15, 2018, 04:47:41 PM
Citing James Watson and not Rosalind Franklin as an unrecognized scientist.

:bolo

Citing Rosalind Franklin and not Emma Noether as an unrecognized scientist

:bolo

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maybe more mathematician but her contributions to physics was undeniable.
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Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on June 15, 2018, 07:36:53 PM: poprocks: voodoo or science?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: OpinionatedCyborg on June 15, 2018, 10:15:43 PM: Quote from: Jack Remington on June 15, 2018, 07:14:23 PM
If Bruce Lee never existed, would we even know who he was?
yes, because he could beat Mike Tyson with one punch he was too fast and a complete martial artist you cigarillo
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: agrajag on June 16, 2018, 02:30:07 AM: george st. pierre would wrestle-hump bruce lee to death
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: shosta on June 16, 2018, 07:09:36 AM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on June 15, 2018, 04:49:47 PM
What if he was a black trans woman? :thinking
or a trans racial filipino
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Leadbelly on June 16, 2018, 11:38:27 AM: What if Stephen Hawking was an advanced being at the ninth level of initiation, sent to spy on mankind by the Lord Sanat Kumara, and report back all necessary information to the headquarters located in Shamballah?

Something I ponder all the time. Stephen Hawking is someone you would least suspect.
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Dickie Dee on June 16, 2018, 12:24:00 PM: https://www.theonion.com/stephen-hawking-builds-robotic-exoskeleton-1819564353

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I remember that article when it was new, now it's drinking age by a week :goty
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Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Huff on June 16, 2018, 01:54:15 PM: Quote from: Exodust on June 15, 2018, 11:06:42 AM
Barely relatable, but it always cracks me up how Neil deGrasse Tyson can't imagine a Sci-Fi movie not being factual. Can't wait till he starts reviewing videogames like sorry gamers, but Final Fantasy has no regard for scientific fact.

Is there more of a no fun allowed .gif person than Tyson. Dude needs to get off social media
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Stro on June 16, 2018, 06:39:32 PM: Quote from: Huff on June 16, 2018, 01:54:15 PM
Quote from: Exodust on June 15, 2018, 11:06:42 AM
Barely relatable, but it always cracks me up how Neil deGrasse Tyson can't imagine a Sci-Fi movie not being factual. Can't wait till he starts reviewing videogames like sorry gamers, but Final Fantasy has no regard for scientific fact.

Is there more of a no fun allowed .gif person than Tyson. Dude needs to get off social media

Yes. His name is Jordan Peterson. Tyson only gets into the "well, actually" bullshittery when asked and likes all kind of stupid entirely implausible movies just fine.
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Oblivion on June 16, 2018, 09:31:25 PM: I could be wrong, but didn't he have the highest IQ in the world or something?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: team filler on June 16, 2018, 09:39:31 PM: what does image quality have to do with anything?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Tasty on June 16, 2018, 11:05:14 PM: Eddie Redmayne?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 17, 2018, 01:49:07 AM: Quote from: Exodust on June 15, 2018, 11:06:42 AM
sorry gamers, but Final Fantasy has no regard for scientific fact.

True, if it were scientifically accurate they could just use a Phoenix Down on Aerith
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on June 17, 2018, 11:30:10 AM: What if his body was mostly the same but he could talk and had a whiney voice?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: agrajag on June 17, 2018, 11:40:45 AM: Quote from: CatsCatsCats on June 17, 2018, 11:30:10 AM
What if his body was mostly the same but he could talk and had a whiney voice?

He'd have millions on incel followers?
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: nudemacusers on June 17, 2018, 11:42:42 AM: What if he had a gay voice
Title: Re: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name?
Post by: Stro on June 17, 2018, 12:08:32 PM: What if he had a straight voice but it identified as gay