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Albert “Mad Hair” Einstein vs. Stephen “Burly Man” Hawking, The Rap Battle of Epic Porportions

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, LOL, Movies, Music, Versus on April 4, 2011

Before Internet lost its fool mind as it does every year on April 1st, the folks at Epic Rap Battles of History dropped a new rap battle…OF SCIENCE!

MedicMike claims Einstein easily schooled Hawking.

We think he’s crazy.

Hawking rolled in like a Mac truck and mowed the old man down.

What do you think?

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Stephen Hawking Ruffles Feathers and Remains Future-Fearful

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Interviews, Space, The Future on September 2, 2010

Earlier this morning for some reason, Stephen Hawking upset some people with his Burly Man words.

Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God
God did not create the universe, the man who is arguably Britain’s most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book.

In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity.

In his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking had seemed to accept the role of God in the creation of the universe. But in the new text, co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow, he said new theories showed a creator is “not necessary”.

Stephen Hawking just declared that Gravity is God!

See what we did there?

We have some notes for those so ready to jump on Professor Hawking’s words and shout across the world because you think you need to be heard, too.

Religious right. Calm down. Just because one brilliant scientist aired his beliefs about the universe and everything in it does not mean it invalidates your faith in whatever. Not everyone has to believe what you believe for it to be valid.

Atheists. Settle down. The universe, and multi-verse, is a big place. It’s where we keep all our stuff. There’s no need to get all culty, know-it-all, froth at the mouth and point fingers while dancing the I-told-you-so dance. There’s bound to be something out there that challenges you straight to your mortal core. Want to lay odds on that thing being unexplainable?

There’s no reason for science and religion to exist separately. Others far wiser than our humble self have postulated on this. We don’t have it all figured out any more than you. (Though at times you’d be hard pressed to believe that.) There’s no filling a cup that’s already full. (Stop those snarky typing fingers. That phrase did exist before James Cameron thought to throw it into AVATAR. )

Are your feathers unruffled now? Good.

Now look below to let Stephen Hawking freak-out your future.

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Stephen Hawking Believes in Alien Planet Jackers, More Doomy Dooms of Doom

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, World on April 28, 2010

We find it curious that when scientist Albert Harrison says a visiting alien race may be as petty as humans back in January 2010, no one bats an eyelash.

Stephen Hawking says the same thing and accompanies the statement with ILM level visual effects and time on the Discovery Channel, everyone won’t shut up about humanity’s doom.
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Burly-Man Hawking Experienced Zero Gravity via the Vomit Comet

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Science on April 26, 2007

Hawking did this in the interest to nudge private space ventures forward.

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floated free in zero gravity Thursday, becoming the first person with a disability to have the experience.

The zero-gravity flight in a modified jet creates the experience of microgravity during 25-second plunges — called parabolas — over the Atlantic Ocean.

“It was amazing,” Hawking, paralyzed by a progressive neurological disorder, said afterward through an electronic device.

“The zero-G part was wonderful and the full-G part was no problem. I could have gone on and on.

“Space, here I come.”

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“We consider … having him weightless for 25 seconds is a successful mission,” Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity, said before the flight. “If we do more than one, fantastic.”

Urged on by Hawking’s smiles after the first parabola, they did seven more, Diamandis said afterward.

“He was doing gold-medalist gymnastics in zero G,” Diamandis said.

Hawking has an ulterior motive for going on the flight other than the personal thrill of weightlessness — he believes in the importance of private space ventures and the need to reduce the cost of space tourism so that it is accessible to more people.

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“Professor Hawking reached for the sky and touched the heavens today.”

Past news on the burly man that is Stephen Hawking

(via ontd and cnn)

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The Midnight Hour is Close at Hand

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, World on January 17, 2007

If The PTBs won’t listen to burlyman Hawking, they’ll surely listen to a clock…right?

Right?!?

scientistdeathclockattheready.jpgLONDON (AP) – The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.

The clock, which was set two minutes forward to 11:55, represents the likelihood of a global cataclysm. Its ticks have given the clock’s keepers a chance to speak out on the dangers they see threatening Earth.

It was the fourth time since the Soviet collapse in 1991 that the clock ticked forward amid fears over what the scientists describe as “a second nuclear age” prompted largely by standoffs with Iran and North Korea. But urgent warnings of climate change also played a role.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the clock, was founded in 1945 as a newsletter distributed among nuclear physicists concerned about nuclear war, and midnight originally symbolized a widespread nuclear conflict. The bulletin has grown into an organization focused more generally on manmade threats to human civilization.

“The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons,” said Kennette Benedict, director of the bulletin.

Stephen W. Hawking, the renowned cosmologist and mathematician, told The Associated Press that global warming has eclipsed other threats to the planet, such as terrorism.

“Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people,” Hawking said. “Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror.“

And there’s a chart. A lovely chart of death in which to track the human extinction agenda.

(death link via 7d)

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Stephen Hawking has The Right Stuff

Posted by mistergroonk in Science on January 10, 2007

This new dangerboy Stephen Hawking is a burly man and he’s ready to punch your teeth in.

“This year I’m planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009,” the scientist, who is most famous for his 1988 international best-seller “A Brief History of Time”, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.

A “zero-gravity flight” is one in which an aeroplane flies in such a way as to render its passengers temporarily weightless, mimicking the conditions in space.

Hawking’s trip outside the earth’s atmosphere depends on the progress of British tycoon Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism programme, which aims to carry passengers into low-Earth orbit from next year.

The Daily Telegraph said Sir Richard will sponsor Hawking’s mission, waiving the estimated flight cost of 100,000 pounds (148,000 euros, 193,000 dollars).

(via warren ellis and physorg)

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