Stephen Hawking Dead at 76

[Yazata]

Reports are coming in that Stephen Hawking has died peacefully at the relatively ripe age of 76. His death comes only 55 years after he was given two years to live.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ad-76.html

[Magical Realist]

Free at last Stephen.

[Ben the Donkey]

One can only hope so.

[Zinjanthropos]

If he could communicate it to us then Hawking would probably say some humorous witty remark about death.

[Syne]

Free at last Stephen.

Not that he would ever know, if what he believed were true.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail," he said. "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nati...423344002/

[C C]

What a disappointing vacuum in the pop-culture market there is going to be not hearing a new prophecy or insight every year about something, whenever Stephen got up on the scientism pulpit. From a purely North American perspective, it's akin to Uncle Walter (Cronkite) either retiring or passing away for a former generation of the '60s and '70s.
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[Syne]

What a disappointing vacuum in the pop-culture market there is going to be not hearing a new prophecy or insight every year about something, whenever Stephen got up on the scientism pulpit. From a purely North American perspective, it's akin to Uncle Walter (Cronkite) either retiring or passing away for a former generation of the '60s and '70s.  
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Nonsense. His prophecies were just preaching to the scientism choir, outside of which they seemed largely crankish. Comparing that choir to Cronkite's audience is silly.