Stephen Hawking: An Urgent Message to the World

[GreenPoet64]

He discusses how the human race will survive the next 100 years:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&vid=178f89d3d9987efabcf31c6fb8364fd6.654968&cache=1

[EFerrari]

1. Hi there, GreenPoet. I'm glad that Stephen is so optimistic.

:)

[GreenPoet64]

2. A warning with an . . .

optimistic tone--yes.

[Dr Fate]

3. "He is pretty smart for a retarded man."

I swear to you an idiot buddy of mine said that.

Geeze- these people I'm with...

[GreenPoet64]

4. Your friend IS an idiot . . .

Hey, I was glad to see this front and center on Yahoo News.

[Dr Fate]

5. I missed his lecture when he was touring CA.

Couldnt come up with $35 for the ticket.

His books are great (or at least the one I read) and should be read in high schools- even lay people like myself can grasp his concepts...

[GreenPoet64]

6. I agree n/t

[survivor999]

8. Your buddy

is pretty stupid for an idiot :)

[Make7]

9. Your friend is pretty retarded for a smart man. ( n/t )

[Dr Fate]

I know- but bring up wine, women & song and he is an instant genius.

Bring up politics or anything else & his eyes glaze over.

Meet the great American Swing-Voter or non-voter...

I think he thought Hawking was Autistic or something.

[Make7]

11. One time I jokingly called myself an idiot-savant and ...

... one of my friends basically said, "Yeah, you are." Gee, thanks...

:) Make7

[JVS]

17. LOL! That's classic

[elehhhhna]

21. roflmao is GW your friend?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Simply brilliant!

From the peanut gallery comments:

Complete and udder crap. He neds to lay off the scinece fiction and go to a church. it is god keeping us alive not some whak job in a wheell chair.:silly:

[GreenPoet64]

10. Yeah, the RW is definitely threatened by science.

The name-calling is evidence that they can't argue the facts.

[smirkymonkey]

19. It appears that they are also threatened by correctly spelled

words. :P

[Dead_Parrot]

18. And another...

OK first off he has no right to say that a meteor hit earth millions of years ago because there is no prof that the world is more than a few thousand years old second maybe the reason that no aliens have come is that are are not any! this seems obvious to me and I'm only 16! this guy has has be in his 30 at least and i can see things he cant? one way or the other its a the dumbest thing i have ever herd

That's the future of the US, folks. Read it and weep
:banghead:

[badgerpup]

20. This guy * is 16 and that age is NOTORIOUS for knowing everything...

...especially if you happen to possess a "Y" chromosome.
Hopefully this could change...the attitude, I mean.
So far as I can tell, he's stuck with the chromosome.

*I'll cop to making an assumption about the gender of the writer.
I think a female would express herself differently...and gods help me...be discouraged from being interested in 'series stuff' like this. :crazy:

[w4rma]

12. Where's the rest of it? It seemed like it was cut off early. (nt)

[GreenPoet64]

13. Yes, last word seems to be cut off. I'm searching for

a transcript. If there's more I'd love to hear it too.

[arcane1]

14. Awesome! But sad, too...

it made me remember how badly I miss Carl Sagan :evilfrown:

[ChickMagic]

15. I had the pleasure of meeting him at a talk where I work

because he accidentally ran over my foot. Really.

[Bretttido]

16. His wisdom is incomprehensible.