MetaFilter posts tagged with Hawking

Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking lay it out, in song

Earl the Polliwog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:36:23 -0800

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

I love arachnids! I love hot magma!

oxford blue — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:10:23 -0800

Feel good hit of the year; Discovery Channel's 'I Love the Whole World' ad This makes me superlatively happy.

If anyone deserves to go....

inconsequentialist — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:07:36 -0800

Stephen Hawking in space. "On April 26, Dr. Hawking, surrounded by a medical entourage, is to take a zero-gravity ride out of Cape Canaveral on a so-called vomit comet, a padded aircraft that flies a roller-coaster trajectory to produce periods of weightlessness." [NY Times article]

Valentines for Perfect Strangers

atom128 — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:18:40 -0800

Otto is just looking for a little love. Can you fit the bill?

Dropping science like when Galileo dropped the orange

furtive — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:55:10 -0800

MC Hawking's A Brief History of Rhyme (Flash) silliness for a Tuesday afternoon.

Information Salvation

Songdog — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:25:29 -0800

It would seem that black holes may not lose information after all, in which case Stephen Hawking has lost another bet.

Buy Stephen Hawking's balloon basket

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:31:13 -0800

Balloon basket for sale. Low mileage. Only used by possibly the smartest man on the planet. [via linkdump]

mrbula — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:59:05 -0800

The World's most famous living scientist turns 60 today. It's a noteworthy milestone for a brilliant individual.

stbalbach — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:11:11 -0800

Humans Doomed Without Space Colonies. The human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before this millennium is out unless it starts to colonize space, top British scientist Stephen Hawking warned on Tuesday.