A message from late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was beamed towards the nearest black hole as his remains were laid to rest in London’s Westminster Abbey.
Dumb idea. Beaming voices into space never ends well. Has no one seen Star Trek 4?
A message from late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was beamed towards the nearest black hole as his remains were laid to rest in London’s Westminster Abbey.
Dumb idea. Beaming voices into space never ends well. Has no one seen Star Trek 4?
The same England that eulogizes Stephen Hawking supports a medical-governmental bureaucracy that would have decided, when he was young, that he was unfit to live — and, worse, would have deemed his life to be not worth living.
It would, demonstrably, have withheld from him food and water, refused to let Italy fly him to one of their hospitals for treatment, and refused to let his parents bring him home simply to die — all if he did not happen to have access to that electronic keyboard that converted his thoughts to text and voice. And there’s no reason to think they would have allowed their medical staff to provide him with that.
Well, it beats beaming an Obama message about tribalism.
Since a black hole lets nothing escape what is the point in sending it a radio message?
Did they send his real voice or the digital vox that he used for the last 30 years of his life?