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- Speak to us, oh great and wise computer
- Some GNU mistakes
- GNU Screen: a free virtual terminal multiplexer
- Happy World Penguin Day!
- Stephen Hawking: aliens "almost certain to exist," could invade Earth
- Leonard Nimoy in 'no more Spock' shock
- Enchance launchbar menu with cairo-dock, Docky
- Getting Friendly with GCC 4.5
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Stephen Hawking
He is a pretty smart man. He is supposed to be featured next Sunday at 9 pm on the Discovery channel talking about the Universe.
Old and Tired
Hawking, like most physicists, WAS a smart man.
Like all physicists, he peaked early in his career, which for Hawkings was way back in the late 60's early 70's where he basically made just two interesting/ground breaking observations.
His main claim to fame is writing a couple of popular books aimed at non-physicts, and for surviving (if you can call it that) a disease that is usually fatal.
He hasn't been in the annual top 100 physicists for decades and decades.
I think he gets the "you're the smartest man alive" free ride, even after a few really really really bad papers and presentations because he's a gimp (and I'm not talking 3rd inbred cousin to photoshop here).
In any case, how being at one point in history a renown physicist with a couple of new ideas about singularities and black holes makes him an expert on yet unknown, undiscovered, and most importantly, unproven space aliens I'll never understand.