RIP 2018
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@antipodean said in RIP 2018:
Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
Really? Like most august mathematicians and physicists, the great work was done early in his life. It would have been a true loss had ALS taken him in line with the original prediction.
I think you are confused, sure manyt of the big break throughs typically come in the earlier years but then they, mathematicians and physicists as you have suggested along with others, continue to work, continue to advance the various theory's.
Most of the advancement in science is made this way, small incremental steps forwards (and backwards), the "hard slog" so to speak.
Hawking had continued to work throughout his lifespan as much as his condition would allow, advancing the knowledge in theoretical physics including advancing our knowledge around black holes as an example.
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Totally amazed by the reaction on social media and the 15yos so absolutely inconsolable.
So far I have seen tweets mourning the loss of the best skateboarder of all time and that guy from the Simpson episode.
Many posts saying he's in Heaven now with Einstein theorising together. Neither believed in the after life.....Hello, scientists! FFS.
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@raznomore said in RIP 2018:
Totally amazed by the reaction on social media and the 15yos so absolutely inconsolable.
So far I have seen tweets mourning the loss of the best skateboarder of all time and that guy from the Simpson episode.
Many posts saying he's in Heaven now with Einstein theorising together. Neither believed in the after life.....Hello, scientists! FFS.
Just young dickwads getting on the bandwagon.
I have absolutely no idea what his books were about and I'm certainly not going to pretend he meant the slightest thing to me...
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The last minutes of the last male Northern White Rhino on the planet.
R.I.P.
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@salacious-crumb That's fucked. Absolutely no reason other than superstition and greed.
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@antipodean said in RIP 2018:
@salacious-crumb That's fucked. Absolutely no reason other than superstition and greed.
Accounts for a fair amount of evil in the world ...
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Winnie Mandela, Dead.
Excuse me if I shed no tears.
R.I.P. Stompie.
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
Winnie Mandela, Dead.
Excuse me if I shed no tears.
R.I.P. Stompie.
I canβt find the crowd funding page for the disco ball above the dance floor that will no doubt be built above her grave .
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
Winnie Mandela, Dead.
Excuse me if I shed no tears.
R.I.P. Stompie.
I canβt find the crowd funding page for the disco ball above the dance floor that will no doubt be built above her grave .
When Winnie divorced Nelson she said she wanted half of what he had.....
So he threw her in jail for 13 years.