KK 3,307 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 In life, you looked up to the stars, while we looked down at our feet and you asked the questions we now dream answers to. You belong with them now. It's the end of an era. Rest in peace Mr. Hawking. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 Smaug The Iron, James and John 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Rest in peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 A shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 All things considered he got a longer lease on life, and did more with it, than he could ever have expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Rest in peace Mr. Hawking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,499 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Oh no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Cheeky bugger in Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I'm shocked. He's a legend. One of the most brilliant minds of his time. His contributions to science are duly noted. RIP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 RIP. I got to see him once briefly in London. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,499 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 A friend studies Applied Math. at Cambridge, he saw him roll by a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 35 minutes ago, Holko said: A friend studies Applied Math. at Cambridge, he saw him roll by a few times. Heh heh.. hawhawhaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I'll miss his cameos in ... so many shows. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Very sad news to hear... while I may not have agreed with him on many things, I do acknowledge that he was a brilliant, thoughtful man and an inspiration to many. He was, and still is, the quintessential example that anyone, anywhere, can live their life to the fullest, regardless of any disability you may have. Rest in peace, Mr. Hawking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,647 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Congratulations to every person on this board, who has moved up one place on the "smartest person alive" list. Hawking was a man with a brilliant and playful mind. A great loss for the science community. James and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I thought he was immortal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. Bespin and Marian Schedenig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 All in all, he had a much longer life than anyone could have expected, and despite everything he had to deal with he seems to have enjoyed it much more than I would have thought possible. Reminds me that I've been meaning to re-read A Brief History of Time for quite some (not so brief) time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,499 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Hawking's ashes are to be interred in Westminster Abbey. I don't know about him, but if I didn't believe in anything approaching a deity (except, perhaps, for the deification of science, itself), I wouldn't want my final resting place to be a repository of the Christian faith. The C.of E. seems to be setting its sights well and truly low, these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,499 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 On the one hand, that's true, on the other, he'll be resting there with Newton and Darwin. Looking through the list of people buried there quickly, it seems to me it's an incredible honour to be buried there, and shows how highly the people responsible think of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,499 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I take your point, but no matter how "great" someone is (and with a lot of people "greatness" is debatable), why consign their remains to a building, the function of which, is diametrically opposed to their belief-system? It would be like interring Billy Graham's ashes in a mosque. That, simply, wouldn't happen. Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I don't imagine that Hawking would have been particularly bothered by the arrangement. It's not as though the presence of his ashes is likely to give extra credibility to the religious beliefs associated with the venue, and those beliefs won't be causing him any annoyance, what with him being dead and all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 3 hours ago, Richard said: I don't know about him, but if I didn't believe in anything approaching a deity (except, perhaps, for the deification of science, itself), I wouldn't want my final resting place to be a repository of the Christian faith. He was an atheist and didn't believe in any kind of life after death. So why would it bother him where they put his remains? And if he did care about it on behalf of his legacy, I imagine being buried close to Newton is ok. Also, considering his illness, I'm sure that if he in any way cared for what they did with his body after death, he noted it years ago. (Also compare Douglas Adams, a self-described "radical atheist", whose memorial service was held at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Granted, his death was sudden and unexpected, but I'm sure they wouldn't have held the memorial there if they weren't confident that he would appreciated it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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