Happy Birthday Steven Hawking
Steven Hawking born this day in 1942.
Wikipedia has a
nice biography of him.
One of the more brilliant minds. Also, one of the funniest. Two examples from the Wikipedia biography:
The Onion, a satirical newspaper, ran an article claiming that Hawking's head had been mounted on a super-robotic cyborg body, complete with laser-guided missiles and a jetpack. Hawking, with his typical good humour, sent them a letter cursing them for exposing his evil plans for world domination.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data is seen playing poker with holographic depictions of Stephen Hawking, Sir Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein at the begining of the season six cliffhanger Descent. Hawking portrayed his own hologram for this episode. When taking a tour of the set, he paused at the Warp Core, smiled, and said "I'm working on that."
Heh...
And let us not forget his ongoing second career as MC and Rapper:
MC Hawking
Posted by DaveH at January 8, 2006 8:43 PM