@Trancecoach

Haha, that 3rd link of her has already been removed. "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech."

For those who didn't see it, she was impersonating a developmentally disabled person like Stephen Hawking. It was done in a clever way.

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It would only seem rude. I would like to think that Mr. Hawking would understand immediately, and even encourage people to do so.>> ^conan:

i now it's probably rude but i wish they'd subtitle hawking. for a non-native english speaker it's very hard to understand him because the pronounciation is all messed up by that computer....

>> ^ForgedReality:

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
>> ^ForgedReality:
Ooh that gives me an idea: Why doesn't someone take Hawking's voice engine, and autotune it, and create the next big music fad?

Are you being facetious?

I'm being half-facetious. I think it could be interesting to see once. Auto-tune could make even Stephen Hawking seem talented (musically).


lol, well in that case, the 1st thing that came to my mind was Squarepusher's Red Hot Car. Maybe Aphex Twin's Windowlicker (if he was a pimp daddy)...

>> ^conan:

i now it's probably rude but i wish they'd subtitle hawking. for a non-native english speaker it's very hard to understand him because the pronounciation is all messed up by that computer....


I suggest studying. Just grab your run-of-the-mill 90s Apple computer, and use the text-to-speech. Do that for a few months and voila! you're fluent in Stephen Hawking!

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

>> ^ForgedReality:
Ooh that gives me an idea: Why doesn't someone take Hawking's voice engine, and autotune it, and create the next big music fad?

Are you being facetious?


I'm being half-facetious. I think it could be interesting to see once. Auto-tune could make even Stephen Hawking seem talented (musically).

>> ^ForgedReality:

Ooh that gives me an idea: Why doesn't someone take Hawking's voice engine, and autotune it, and create the next big music fad?


Are you being facetious?

>> ^mxxcon:

very cool, yet pretty depressing to see his health degrade further and further


Ah relax, he's a robot. It's just planned obsolescence.

>> ^conan:

i now it's probably rude but i wish they'd subtitle hawking. for a non-native english speaker it's very hard to understand him because the pronounciation is all messed up by that computer....


As a non-native english speaker myself I look at it like this: Trying to understand people who don't speak a "clean" english will in the end make it easier for you to understand "anyone" speaking english.

For me personally, Hawking is easy to understand... but than again I have had ample training by Sir Patrick Moore

@Drachen_Jager
@GeeSussFreeK

In response to the Stephen Hawking Infinite Universes and Reality theme... (Videosift ate my quote...)

Not saying I don't agree as it sounds like brain vomit with no proof, but an interesting idea. But, if the system that you speak of is balanced then there is also a Universe where they protect everything, canceling out any effect on us. This will always be true with "parallel Universes" as they exist only to be cancelled out elsewhere.

Quantum mechanics takes it one step further and says that if such a Universe knew about us in anyway our Universes would become entangled and our combined wave functions would collapse and create a new one. It would also mean that the "Evil God" is now beholden to OUR physics as well as theirs; our reality would become a hybrid of the two realities. This potentially would make the "Evil God" look like an idiot, destroy his conduit for power, or worse make him a literal baby under our combined mechanics. In fact he may lose any ability to control a single iota of minutiae of our now, combined realities.

This becomes a problem with our "classical" Gods, for if they interact with our reality then they must obey some physical rules; this lends credence to being able to dismiss a supreme power either MAN-MADE or a GOD. As both have to obey rules and these rules allow others to balance the control the "God or Man" can have over time. Truthfully, the rules/physics are more powerful than any God could hope to be.

They will always dictate and give definition from one polar opposite to the next; or three opposites, four, five, six... Math works because all it does is give meaning to boundaries that have always existed.

>> ^dannym3141:

LOL at the stephen hawking picture. And dawkins was in there i think!?!?!? WTF


Was it Dawkins or Hitchens or both? Either way, if Stephen Hawking leaves america, we're screwed.

LOL at the stephen hawking picture. And dawkins was in there i think!?!?!? WTF

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*philosophy


My question is: What would Stephen Hawking ask?