Author Topic: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name? (Read 2813 times)

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

tiesto · « **Reply #1 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)

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2 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.

paprikastaude · « **Reply #3 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).

thisismyusername · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2018, 03:25:19 PM »

I dunno about his popular opinion, but he has a theory on blackholes (Hawking Energy), like Einstein and Newton. So...

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.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2018, 04:44:51 PM »

Yes he would be Stephen Walkins

Mandark · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2018, 04:47:41 PM »

Citing James Watson and not Rosalind Franklin as an unrecognized scientist.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2018, 04:49:47 PM »

What if he was a black trans woman?

Kara · « **Reply #8 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.

kingv · « **Reply #9 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.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #10 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.

Citing Rosalind Franklin and not Emma Noether as an unrecognized scientist

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maybe more mathematician but her contributions to physics was undeniable.

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seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2018, 07:36:53 PM »

poprocks: voodoo or science?

OpinionatedCyborg · « **Reply #12 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

agrajag · « **Reply #13 on:** June 16, 2018, 02:30:07 AM »

george st. pierre would wrestle-hump bruce lee to death

shosta · « **Reply #14 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?

or a trans racial filipino

Leadbelly · « **Reply #15 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.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #16 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

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Huff · « **Reply #17 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

Oblivion · « **Reply #18 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?

team filler · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2018, 09:39:31 PM »

what does image quality have to do with anything?

Tasty · « **Reply #20 on:** June 16, 2018, 11:05:14 PM »

Eddie Redmayne?

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #21 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

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #22 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?

agrajag · « **Reply #23 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?

nudemacusers · « **Reply #24 on:** June 17, 2018, 11:42:42 AM »

What if he had a gay voice

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Author Topic: If Stephen Hawking were able-bodied, would we even know his name? (Read 2813 times)