Obama on Stephen Hawking: 'Have fun out there among the stars'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 03/14/18 11:12 AM EDT

Former President Obama on Wednesday shared a photo with Stephen Hawking to honor the world-renowned physicist and author who died Wednesday at age 76.

Link to tweet

Hawking, an Oxford-born cosmologist, was behind groundbreaking discoveries about black holes and general relativity and was regarded one of the most prominent intellectuals of his era.

In 1963, he was diagnosed with ALS, which eventually paralyzed him. He was still able to communicate using a computer that generated speech.

In recent years, he was an outspoken critic of President Trump, calling him out for his rhetoric on the campaign trail and for his environmental policies.

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[ffr]

1. Amazing way with words.

[niyad]

2. a lovely send-off!

[cilla4progress]

3. He always says

The right thing..

[sarge43]

4. As always, class.

Thank you, Mr President for expressing what many of us are feeling today.

[errant boy]

25. Beat Me to It

Though I was gonna phrase it, "Class, As Always."

[sarge43]

28. It's not in him to be anything else but class.

Welcome to DU, errant boy. Enjoy the ride, but keep your arms inside the car.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Our own president Obama, and not elected by Russia, is a class act all by himself!! NT

A wonderful president, very inclusive and very thoughtful and mindful of the needs and desires of the American people, not the billionaires and millionaires, or Russia...

[mcar]

6. Perfect!

[riversedge]

7. Very good Pres Obama. very good.

[dalton99a]

8. .

President Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to physicist Stephen Hawking, August 12, 2009

[sarge43]

10. OK, who started slicing onions? n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Such real humanity!

[keithbvadu2]

9. Stephen Hawkings time travel formula

Stephen Hawking’s reply to The Face magazine when, in 1995, they asked him for an equation for time travel.

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https://inews.co.uk/news/science/this-is-the-equation-stephen-hawking-wanted-on-his-tombstone/


The ‘simple’ equation Stephen Hawking wanted on his tombstone, and what it means

[SergeStorms]

11. I remember a time when we had a REAL President.

Those were such wonderful days!

What do you think the chances are for Trump saying anything nice about Hawking? Less than zero? He'd probably make fun of the disabling disease Hawking lived with for so many, many years.

Trump isn't aware of anything going on in the universe past the tip of his nose. Hawking.....a mental giant. Trump.....a total zero.

[HopeAgain]

13. 'cept Hawkins didn't believe in any kind of after life.

Just sayin'.

[LakeArenal]

21. The name is Hawking...

[BlueStater]

24. I didn't really take it as a religious comment.

He was a cosmologist who studied the universe, which obviously consists of stars. It was a classy comment relating to his profession rather than an afterlife.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. electroencephalography

Every thought Hawking had is travelling amongst the stars. Just need a detector to record them.

Now, get busy and make a craft to catch up with the earliest ones. Once you've retrieved all of them -- from yesterday on back -- you can rebuild Mr. Hawking in a new brain. You'll need to make sure that new brain operates like the old one...

See, e.g.,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/memory-hackers.html

Ta-da! Afterlife.

Stephen Hawking kept that wonderful geek hacker's sense of humor to the end -- went out on Pi Day.

(Note he arrived in '42 -- significant number to Hitchhikers -- just so he could teach us about life, the universe, and everything).

[HopeAgain]

30. interesting

Starting to sound spiritual

[flibbitygiblets]

14. Meanwhile, not a peep from Drumph, because he has no idea who Hawking is or why it's important

Probably for the best...if tRump ever saw Hawking, he'd probably have just mocked his disability

...especially since Hawking once called tRump a "demagogue". Again, he probably doesn't know what that means (or worse, does know, and is pleased).

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

18. Im expecting him to blame the NHS.

Any moment now.

I hope I’m wrong.

[calimary]

15. Run with the comets, Dr. Hawking. You can do EVERYTHING now.

Don't rest in peace. Run! Dance! Frolic! Skip! Fly! Jump! Do the boogie woogie til the sun fizzles out!

[Blue Owl]

16. Trump: Steven who???

That stupid fuck is a disgrace to the White House.

[Pisces]

17. Beautiful

[aeromanKC]

19. Posted on another sites Board:

So how crazy (from God?) is the coincidence that Stephen Hawking was born Same day of Galileo's death & died the same day as Einstein's birth (also Pi day of course)

[LakeArenal]

20. We are stardust. 💫✨💫

Thanks for the science of my lifetime.


We are golden. 🌟

[Heartstrings]

22. Only a man with class

would comment something so poetic....

RIP Mr. Hawking.....

[harun]

23. If you've found a few answers after your passing Mr. Hawking. Please send us a few hints.

[Gothmog]

26. I miss having a real POTUS

[MBS]

27. wonderful.