Because he deserves his own thread and the one bumped for the announcement is a bit, er, disrespectful maybe?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43396008
― emil.y, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Stephen Hawking marching with Vanessa Redgrave and Tariq Ali against the Vietnam War - London, 1968 pic.twitter.com/8JtZXHcgO9— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) March 14, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/14/hawking-respect-disabled-people-hope-scientist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Dr Francis Ryan's obit.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Tariq Ali has replied - it's not Hawking.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
#Hawking probably was and was not at the demo at the same time. According to #QuantumPhysics, it is possible.— ☭ Left Juan 🏳☭ (@SuckMyLEFTJuan) March 14, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
the fella died on pi day and you have to wonder if it was done on purpose this being hawking
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
surely hawking would only be both present and not present at the demo until observed, upon which the superposition would collapse and he would then be one or the other
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
thank you for being the picky pedant i was afraid to be :-D
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
this nice thing possibly also happened and didn't happen: the rooftop champagne party SH threw for time travellers where he didn't send out the invites till after it ended
(sadly in our crappy timeline no one came to it)
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
listening to hawkwind, pouring one out for hawking
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Hawking got into a beef with Jeremy Hunt last year, over the creeping privatisation/under-funding of the NHS. And Hunt accused him of spreading "pernicious falsehoods" which was obviously the absolute opposite of what he was doing ヽ(＿ ＿ヽ)
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
I hope it’s Quark, Strangeness and Charm xp
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Stephen Hawking Was Right to Worry About Our Impending Doom
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
#TwitterGold being spun here pic.twitter.com/m01sIdmQFM— BadgEUr Meinhof (@Badger5000) March 14, 2018
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Guilty lols
― albvivertine, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Good thing this is the respectful thread
― I leprecan't even. (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Perhaps that does go a bit further than a bit of irreverence. But it's nothing compared to some of insultingly abelist comments on many of the "tasteful" obits today.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Plenty of talk about his impact on popular culture, but haven’t seen much mention of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ype_ldyUJE
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
he was in the brand new hitch-hiker’s radio play (hexagonal phase) only last week
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link