Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 21:46 UTC
In the News After being admitted to the hospital earlier today, the health situation of Professor Stephen Hawking has improved, and he is now "comfortable" according to a spokesperson of the University of Cambridge in the UK. He was admitted into the hospital today after "chest problems", and university spokespeople stated he was "very ill".
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Best wishes Professor
by melkor on Mon 20th Apr 2009 22:27 UTC
melkor
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2006-12-16

Best wishes Stephen - a speedy recovery for my favourite scientist.

Dave

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RE: Best wishes Professor
by StephenBeDoper on Tue 21st Apr 2009 15:18 UTC in reply to "Best wishes Professor"
StephenBeDoper Member since:
2005-07-06

Seconded!

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Obituary
by Michael on Tue 21st Apr 2009 00:26 UTC
Michael
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2005-07-01

This evening I turned on ITV news in the middle of what was basically an obituary and for a while I thought it was until I noticed the tense of some of the words. Looked liked they'd put in a lot of work only for the selfish prof. to go and live.

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RE: Obituary
by JLF65 on Wed 22nd Apr 2009 01:58 UTC in reply to "Obituary"
JLF65 Member since:
2005-07-06

This evening I turned on ITV news in the middle of what was basically an obituary and for a while I thought it was until I noticed the tense of some of the words. Looked liked they'd put in a lot of work only for the selfish prof. to go and live.


I noted that this keeps being marked down. Does ANYONE ELSE here understand humor? So for the humor-impaired, this is FUNNY. Please select "funny" on the popup menu!

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On another news
by sbenitezb on Tue 21st Apr 2009 01:26 UTC
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2005-07-22

The medical agency OSNews reports several cases of malaria in Panamá. Authorities have not yet disclosed the numbers about this desease. Tune in for updates.

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RE: On another news
by DigitalAxis on Tue 21st Apr 2009 04:17 UTC in reply to "On another news"
DigitalAxis Member since:
2005-08-28

And tonight's numbers are 5, 13, 1.8 million, and 40%. Thank you and good night!

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RE: On another news
by sonic2000gr on Tue 21st Apr 2009 11:53 UTC in reply to "On another news"
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Haha, +10 from me. OSNews won't allow me to moderate you...

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Greed
by pysiak on Tue 21st Apr 2009 09:11 UTC
pysiak
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2008-01-01

Hehe, the last lines sound like you only need this man healthy to produce science theories (contribute) so that you could use them some day (teleportation). But if he dies, you're screwed and no holodeck, no warpdrive ;-P

You greedy bastards! ;-)

(it's a sick joke, sorry)

Hope Stephen gets well.

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Be well, Hawking
by Jonix on Tue 21st Apr 2009 11:24 UTC
Jonix
Member since:
2007-02-14

For some years ago I was fortunate to see a good lecture in Stockholm.

As some mentioned here in the comments, he is also my favorite scientist as he's studying and describes in plain man talk what black holes are.

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Good News....
by samw on Tue 21st Apr 2009 13:15 UTC
samw
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2008-12-12

Following the BBC's earlier news article; they have released this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010058.stm

Good luck Mr Hawkin, for mankind's sake.

Sam

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Uhhh...
by bryanv on Tue 21st Apr 2009 14:15 UTC
bryanv
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2005-08-26

The guy has been "very ill" for the majority of his life at this point. This is news?

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Update
by sbergman27 on Tue 21st Apr 2009 14:23 UTC
sbergman27
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2005-07-24

"""
Tuesday 21st April, approx. 12:00 UK time

Professor Hawking is being kept in for observation at Addenbrooke's hospital this morning. He is comfortable and his family is looking forward to him making a full recovery.
"""

http://www.stephenhawking.com

Oh, and by the way... you can *can it*, bryanv. I doubt anyone here is interested in your petty complaints.

Edited 2009-04-21 14:23 UTC

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