Renowned Scientist Stephen Hawking Dies aged 87

BrisingrAerowing

Stephen Hawking: Visionary physicist dies aged 76

The British scientist who explained the Universe to millions died peacefully at home aged 76.

RIP.

Tsaukpaetra

Oh dang, should have looked before I posted in the Other News thread...

Zecc

@BrisingrAerowing

I believe your fingers might have been looking for the off-by-one thread.

Onyx

Rest in peace, may his legacy be as eternal as the stardust he was made of

Jaloopa

My wife and I have decided our son who will be born in the next few weeks will be named after him.

RIP

dcon

@jaloopa Right now my puppy (that I pick up in 10 days) is named after him (Hawking). His registered name will be "Understanding the Universe". I haven't decided if he'll keep the call name, but I'm leaning towards it (I want to meet him first!).

coldandtired

While I imagine dying must have been a bugger, I think if he would have been happy to go on Pi day.

Benjamin Hall

@coldandtired said in Renowned Scientist Stephen Hawking Dies aged 87:

While I imagine dying must have been a bugger, I think if he would have been happy to go on Pi day.

I imagine that after so long with a wasting disease like that, death can come as a relief, an escape from pain.

Zecc

@coldandtired said in Renowned Scientist Stephen Hawking Dies aged 87:

While I imagine dying must have been a bugger, I think if he would have been happy to go on Pi day.

Still a month and a half until 31st April, though.

PleegWat

@zecc said in Renowned Scientist Stephen Hawking Dies aged 87:

Still a month and a half until 31st April, though.

We're having one of those this year then?

pie_flavor

Pornhub's O is a black hole today.
https://i.imgur.com/d911nBZ.png

lucas1

I love Brief History of Time and the explanation of the 2d dog.

But this is old skool internet at its best:

Electric Dreams (Davros & Stephen Hawking Style) – 03:08
— Anthony Richardson

ben_lubar

Stephen Hawking Interview: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – [04:06..04:21] 06:06
— LastWeekTonight

MZH

Galaxy Song Monty Python Live in O2 Arena Aka Steve vs. Brian – [02:54..04:36] 04:36
— Loki Laufeysen

Jaloopa

Science & Environment

The day I thought we'd unplugged Stephen Hawking

Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh remembers his many interviews with the great physicist.

The camera operator I was with wanted to make a last minute adjustment to his lighting and so he asked Prof Hawking's staff if he could pull out one of the plugs in the office so that he could use the socket for his equipment.

Without waiting for a response he pulled the plug and the room was filled with a deafening siren.

Prof Hawking then slouched forward and I feared that my colleague had inadvertently unplugged a vital piece of life-support equipment.

Fortunately, it was the alarm to the uninterruptable power supply to his office computer and he was slouched forward with mirth at our incompetence.