Hawking Becomes a Burbling Imbecile

[babe]

Sometimes, people sit on their past accomplishments a bit too long.

So Yahoo had a take on this article today, on my way to my mail.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/earth-will-turn-into-fireball-by-2600-stephen-hawking-1772429

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or both.

If Malthus had been a scientist instead of a burbling useful imbecile stroking his exponential curve all day long, he might have realized that a mathematicial equation is not reality, as a general rule. Maybe a tiny segment of some reality, but not the whole hog.

exponential population curves, along with temperature projections based on fuel consumption of combustion products, are such extreme views of what happens in the natural world, any plowboy could prove them false with a minutes' worth of common sense.

If earthworms could just multiply exponentially, the world would have become a worm ball about fifty years after nature provided the first worm. If mosquitos could just multiply exponentially, the world would have become a festering ball of mosquitos five years after the first mosquitos appeared on the planet.

Well, anyway, Hawking is always a fun read, and the delusion we can actually understand him is indeed compelling.

And.... NO. I'm not getting on his little plane to go to the nearest star in search of another planet to spoil.

I'll be here in my lab working on my TARDUS.

 

[Jinglin Joe]

Bro pretty sure he's one of the smartest people of all time. Why you gotta hate on him just cuz he made a trump joke bro. How old r u btw.

 

[Jinglin Joe]

[video=youtube_share;zn7-fVtT16k]https://youtu.be/zn7-fVtT16k

 

[Archie Moses]

I think many people forget why he isn't as productive as he could have been. Dude has a major handicap and does all of his calculations in his head without pencil or paper. He can't even talk to people without a computer or express his ideas clearly. He's achieved more than most physicists will ever achieve, and although he's over rated to some, he is worthy of being called one of the greatest physicists of all time.

 

[franklin]

Sometimes, people sit on their past accomplishments a bit too long.

So Yahoo had a take on this article today, on my way to my mail.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/earth-will-turn-into-fireball-by-2600-stephen-hawking-1772429

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or both.

If Malthus had been a scientist instead of a burbling useful imbecile stroking his exponential curve all day long, he might have realized that a mathematicial equation is not reality, as a general rule. Maybe a tiny segment of some reality, but not the whole hog.

exponential population curves, along with temperature projections based on fuel consumption of combustion products, are such extreme views of what happens in the natural world, any plowboy could prove them false with a minutes' worth of common sense.

If earthworms could just multiply exponentially, the world would have become a worm ball about fifty years after nature provided the first worm. If mosquitos could just multiply exponentially, the world would have become a festering ball of mosquitos five years after the first mosquitos appeared on the planet.

Well, anyway, Hawking is always a fun read, and the delusion we can actually understand him is indeed compelling.

And.... NO. I'm not getting on his little plane to go to the nearest star in search of another planet to spoil.

I'll be here in my lab working on my TARDUS.

So Hawking thinks we can travel a small aircraft at the speed of light? Ok.

 

[Siro]

Where babe and Franklin told themselves they're smarter than Stephen Hawkins. They probably also think Boris is a more interesting thinker.

 

[infection]

I don’t claim to be a physicist, I’ll leave that to [MENTION=14]colton[/MENTION], but I’m curious to know how we (well, not we as it’s a small spacecraft) would reach Alpha Centauri, which the article references as being 400-billion light years away, in only 20 years traveling at the speed of light?

 

[Siro]

I don’t claim to be a physicist, I’ll leave that to [MENTION=14]colton[/MENTION], but I’m curious to know how we (well, not we as it’s a small spacecraft) would reach Alpha Centauri, which the article references as being 400-billion light years away, in only 20 years traveling at the speed of light?

Alpha centauri is only 4 light years away. I haven't read the article, but it would take 20 years at an average of 0.2c.

 

[infection]

Alpha centauri is only 4 light years away. I haven't read the article, but it would take 20 years at an average of 0.2c.

That makes more sense. I didn’t bother checking what the article said here:

Alpha Centauri is one of the closest stars to our solar system, located four billion light-years away.

Was thinking either the distance was wrong or they meant to say ludicrous speed.

 

[franklin]

Where babe and Franklin told themselves they're smarter than Stephen Hawkins. They probably also think Boris is a more interesting thinker.

You don't have to always be an arrogant *******. Some of us don't have your OCD futuristic worries, some of us don't have your over-the-top fine dining tastes and don't mind Domino's and think $120 for a meal is expensive, and maybe sometimes we read incorrect articles on obscure subjects that don't seem realistic. Maybe next time you can correct something you are OCD about by stepping off your high horse named condescension.

 

[Siro]

You don't have to always be an arrogant *******. Some of us don't have your OCD futuristic worries, some of us don't have your over-the-top fine dining tastes and don't mind Domino's and think $120 for a meal is expensive, and maybe sometimes we read incorrect articles on obscure subjects that don't seem realistic. Maybe next time you can correct something you are OCD about by stepping off your high horse named condescension.

Oof. Pretty aggressive and personal over a little joke.

 

[babe]

Please lighten up on Siro a bit. I like his rants as much as I like Boris'.

I don't come here looking for Einstein. Damn, I have to go home or visit some relatives when I want that. On Monday I went to the funeral of one of my aunts. She was 94 in passing. When I was a kid she was an awesome redhead who made Maureen O'Hara just look dumb somehow, always was my prototype of the most beautiful woman. My uncle who was married to her was the quintessential "happy philosopher". She appeared to run things, but I was told there was a "Quiet Man" sort of leadership in him.

At any rate, the speakers at the funeral were a tenured UofU prof of genetics, one of Salt Lake's top, and almost certainly best-paid lawyers, and an endocrinologist, and a couple of more upper-middle class professionals, all of whom talked about how high expectations at home figured in their lives.

I sometimes bring material in here from my cousin Kent who's writing a book on consciousness. I intend to challenge Siro's AI high hopes with a sort of human capacity I think machines will never achieve, whoever programs them.

 

[babe]

I think he's awesome, considering. Of course being unable to really do anything but think, he has a sort of advantage on me. I mean, bro, I can deal with my cows pretty good without having to really stretch my thinking.....

Of course, the smaller airplane sort of vehicle would be released in space at about 0.2c, and barring some sort of space junk blowing it up en route, it's actually our best physical vehicle, next to real TARDUS, bro., that we could ever actually make the trip in.

but the mathematics of exponential curves can never hope to go far in explaining any kind of real world. Goes off the scale of the universe pretty quick. I took his remarks as a sort of offering at the throne of political correctness, and he deserves a put down for doing that.

It's long been thought that the earth will be swallowed up in the red giant phase of our sun, but it's been hoped that's five billion more years out there. I do agree that we need to be pro-active about the frontiers, and figure out how to go there and do stuff. That's what being human is all about.

That's what our future requires.

I'm 66 going on to 120.

 

[Siro]

It's TARDIS btw.

 

[Jinglin Joe]

I'm 66

i know a few folks around that age who started talkin/thinkin weird, turns our they were experiencing early syptoims of alzheimer's. once they accepted it was happening, things started gettin better cuz they were aware and actually embraced treatin it. poor folks were also feasted upon by misleading news outlets.


not sayin u have it. just saying in general for anyone readin this its always smart to get regular check ups. just PSA'n. #LoveNotHate

 

[franklin]

Oof. Pretty aggressive and personal over a little joke.

Ah, so your sense of humor is intentionally saying something offensive and then following up with the known troll backpedal "chill bruh, I was just joking obv". Got it.

We can skip over the third act where you say I'm being emo and it was just a joke so stop being emo.

 

[Miggs]

You don't have to always be an arrogant *******. Some of us don't have your OCD futuristic worries, some of us don't have your over-the-top fine dining tastes and don't mind Domino's and think $120 for a meal is expensive, and maybe sometimes we read incorrect articles on obscure subjects that don't seem realistic. Maybe next time you can correct something you are OCD about by stepping off your high horse named condescension.

That's your comeback? Rofl. What a douche. Go bring a gun to a poker party again.

 

[Miggs]

And I won't backtrack.

 

[Siro]

Ah, so your sense of humor is intentionally saying something offensive and then following up with the known troll backpedal "chill bruh, I was just joking obv". Got it.

We can skip over the third act where you say I'm being emo and it was just a joke so stop being emo.

You seem to have misunderstood. I made a joke, then I laughed at your getting your panties in a bunch over it. I'm not backpedaling, nor am I concerned whether you're offended, upset, emo, or anything else.

 

[colton]

I don’t claim to be a physicist, I’ll leave that to [MENTION=14]colton[/MENTION], but I’m curious to know how we (well, not we as it’s a small spacecraft) would reach Alpha Centauri, which the article references as being 400-billion light years away, in only 20 years traveling at the speed of light?

Really bad mistake by the person who wrote the article. Like Siro said, it's about 4 light years away.