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[BringouttheGimp]

When are the end of mth Bigfooty awards announced? And where do I collect?

 

[Vicky Park]

When are the end of mth Bigfooty awards announced? And where do I collect?

Yours is in the mail. Or more correctly being delivered by truck as it was too big to post.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Yours is in the mail. Or more correctly being delivered by truck as it was too big to post.

Hahaha

 

[CFC2010]

When are the end of mth Bigfooty awards announced? And where do I collect?

 

[BringouttheGimp]

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I reckon I'd win the haivani award re

 

[CFC2010]

I reckon I'd win the haivani award re

I love that word re.

 

[Nice n Crispy]

https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-stephen-hawking-has-died-aged-76-11289119

RIP to one of the greatest scientific minds of our generation

 

[Dynamics]

We just lost one of our best.

It was amazing that he dragged 76 years out of a body he was told would fail him decades ago.

RIP sir.

 

[Temploar]

Oh no.

Stephen was one of the good guys.
RIP. A brilliant mind and one of the cultivators of this generation.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

We just lost one of our best.

It was amazing that he dragged 76 years out of a body he was told would fail him decades ago.

RIP sir.

My dad has MND primary lateral sclerosis.. diagnosed last yr.. 3 yrs ago was walking with a stick.. now can barely move. I think they misdiagnosed him in 2012.. put it down to Chiari I Malformation.. had cervical decompression surgery.. when it wasn't necessary I feel.. quite rare for anyone to be impacted by Chiari I Malformation.

 

[CFC2010]

My dad has MND primary lateral sclerosis.. diagnosed last yr.. 3 yrs ago was walking with a stick.. now can barely move. I think they missed diagnosed him in 2012.. put it down to Chiari I Malformation.. had cervical decompression surgery.. when it wasn't necessary I feel.. quite rare for anyone to be impacted by Chiari I Malformation.

Sounds shocking.......sorry to hear Levendi.

Health & Happiness.......doesn't matter how much money you have in the world.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Sounds shocking.......sorry to hear Levendi.

Health & Happiness.......doesn't matter how much money you have in the world.

Thanks re.. he's been like this for a long time really.. in and out of hospital just getting worse and worse with pneumonia. 2 knee replacements as well on the one knee. So when the news came we did expect it. Just wished he had enjoyed his retirement age a lot more. He misses his church.. was a qsalti for over 40 yrs.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

What is the world coming too.. 'cafe for dogs'.. c'moooon re.. enough is enough.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

 

[Andrewy]

Oh no.

Stephen was one of the good guys.
RIP. A brilliant mind and one of the cultivators of this generation.

 

[Black_White]

Very upset about today’s news.
Really thought that Stephen had used that massive intellect to overcome mere death.
What a man!
What an example to all those facing debilitating disease.
We are so much richer for his life. And thankfully he lived in an age that was capable of harnessing his thoughts. Imagine had he be born just a half decade earlier. Our understanding of the universe, and ourselves, would be so much poorer.
A great man who will be remembered for eternity.

 

[Magpie Girl]

Very upset about today’s news.
Really thought that Stephen had used that massive intellect to overcome mere death.
What a man!
What an example to all those facing debilitating disease.
We are so much richer for his life. And thankfully he lived in an age that was capable of harnessing his thoughts. Imagine had he be born just a half decade earlier. Our understanding of the universe, and ourselves, would be so much poorer.
A great man who will be remembered for eternity.

As was his first wife.
What an extraordinary and exceptional woman

 

[Temploar]

• “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”

- Stephen Hawking

 

[jmac70]

Very upset about today’s news.
Really thought that Stephen had used that massive intellect to overcome mere death.
What a man!
What an example to all those facing debilitating disease.
We are so much richer for his life. And thankfully he lived in an age that was capable of harnessing his thoughts. Imagine had he be born just a half decade earlier. Our understanding of the universe, and ourselves, would be so much poorer.
A great man who will be remembered for eternity.

He certainly was an amazing person. I think he would agree though that he was fortunate to be born in the Western world.
How many potentially great people are denied any opportunity because they are born into poverty?
The universe is fascinating but wouldn’t it be something if we could fix our own world.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

He certainly was an amazing person. I think he would agree though that he was fortunate to be born in the Western world.
How many potentially great people are denied any opportunity because they are born into poverty?
The universe is fascinating but wouldn’t it be something if we could fix our own world.

A lot of wisdom there, Jmac

 

[Baltimore Jack]

 

[Temploar]

I share Stephen's viewpoint. The Earth borderline-cannot be fixed. Men have evolved with inbuilt greed and aggression and our planet will eventually become inhabitable.

To ensure our future as a species we need to colonize elsewhere in the universe and we need to start research on the technology now.

Earth is our birth planet and our home as a species but it doesn't have to be humanity's swansong. If we all just put our minds together we could achieve so much greatness, on a galactic scale.

I also share his (and Elon Musk's) view on Artificial Intelligence. I believe the internet is mankind's most significant invention to date as it's given everybody a global voice and allows us to communicate in ways nobody ever thought possible in the time beforehand.

If created, Artificial Intelligence could be the single biggest invention in human history, ever. But we need to make sure we create it sustainably with our goals aligned with its own. If we do manage to create an intelligence greater than our own, then it has the potential to undergo it's own changes and self improvement, and without a moral compass or human feelings, it could eventually look down on us the way we look down on snails.

Humans rule the world not necessarily because we are the strongest, but because we are the smartest. We have grown to use our minds to control the resources on earth in an effective way. We cannot best a lion in combat however we learn how to control the lion by being smarter than it.

An AI could become smarter than anything we have ever dreamed of, and in Stephen's own words;

‘You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants.’

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With the passing of Stephen I think it's time that everyone stops taking Stephen's stark warnings as pure mythology. They're just going to be a part of humanity's natural evolution as a whole and ultimately our future is in our own hands, for now.


*Tried to be intellectual like jmac. Hope it worked.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I didnt even know he was sick.

 

[Temploar]

I didnt even know he was sick.

His wheelchair or body didn't give it away?

Bloke lived with Motor neurone disease for 50 years. The doctors only gave him 2.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

His wheelchair or body didn't give it away?

Bloke lived with Motor neurone disease for 50 years. The doctors only gave him 2.

Yeah maybe that went over your head....