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Hawking turns 70

An amazing will to live and an inspiration to those that have doubt about human will power.

Happy Birthday

Tim :)
 
rjh01 said:
This does not make sense. He has lived in the UK most of his life.
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Last year some idiot, either a politician or a pundit, thought that Hawking was an American and that if he had lived in a society with socialized medicine then he would be dead by now.

Steve S
 
I'll have to remember never to complain next time I have a sore knee!

What an inspiration.
 
1 wpm? Ouch... That must mean he has but a single muscle left. That's a hundredth of what a decent keyboard typist can get (I have ~115, and I'm a bit faster than most). I seem to recall reading that he had about 15 wpm just a few years ago, but maybe that was when he could still use both of his hands to signal?

I wonder what will happen if/when he loses the reliability of that one muscle. Can he control his eyes?

I really don't get how he finds the stubbornness to keep going. A lesser man would certainly just shrivel up at this point, or 40 years ago.
 
TubbaBlubba said:
1 wpm? Ouch... That must mean he has but a single muscle left. That's a hundredth of what a decent keyboard typist can get (I have ~115, and I'm a bit faster than most). I seem to recall reading that he had about 15 wpm just a few years ago, but maybe that was when he could still use both of his hands to signal?

I wonder what will happen if/when he loses the reliability of that one muscle. Can he control his eyes?
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I was wondering about that. There are breathing tubes that you can use to do morse code or its equivalent, you should be able to get greater than 1wpm with one of those. He is not on a respirator, is he?
 
rjh01 said:
This does not make sense. He has lived in the UK most of his life.
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In 2009 Investors Business Daily ran an idiotic editorial that said, in part:

"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
 
Lamuella said:
In 2009 Investors Business Daily ran an idiotic editorial that said, in part:

"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
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Thanks for those replies. My sarcasm detector is currently off line.
 
To derail this thread,

I wonder why the age of humans is (still in the modern world) calculated from the day of birth, while a person´s developmental and biological age is based on the day of conception. It doesn´t matter much when you are 70, but in early childhood it can make a difference of 10% - 20% of the total age of a person, if one was born very prematurely, and another one past the full term, and they are evaluated according to their date of birth.
 
JJM 777 said:
To derail this thread,

I wonder why the age of humans is (still in the modern world) calculated from the day of birth, while a person´s developmental and biological age is based on the day of conception. It doesn´t matter much when you are 70, but in early childhood it can make a difference of 10% - 20% of the total age of a person, if one was born very prematurely, and another one past the full term, and they are evaluated according to their date of birth.
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I suppose one reason for it is that in most countries you are legally considered to be a person from the moment of birth rather than the moment of conception
 
Lamuella said:
I suppose one reason for it is that in most countries you are legally considered to be a person from the moment of birth rather than the moment of conception
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Good thing too. If it were the case that someone would be considered a person from the moment of conception, then abortions would be illegal.
 
Bram Kaandorp said:
Good thing too. If it were the case that someone would be considered a person from the moment of conception, then abortions would be illegal.
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No doubt! If abortions were illegal then all us normal people would have no choice but to look at crippled freaks and try not to get sick.

The way it is now everyone can be like everyone else. See what I mean? Yeah!
 
Brattus said:
No doubt! If abortions were illegal then all us normal people would have no choice but to look at crippled freaks and try not to get sick.

The way it is now everyone can be like everyone else. See what I mean? Yeah!
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Of course, there's also those women who wouldn't survive childbirth because of one thing or other.

They can now live a long life, whereas they would die if abortions were illegal.

"well, they should have taken care not to get pregnant, then", might be your response.

To which I will say that I don't think women have condoms with them just in case they get raped. And in any case, it's not like rapists are very considering of their victims.
 
JJM 777 said:
To derail this thread,

I wonder why the age of humans is (still in the modern world) calculated from the day of birth, while a person´s developmental and biological age is based on the day of conception. It doesn´t matter much when you are 70, but in early childhood it can make a difference of 10% - 20% of the total age of a person, if one was born very prematurely, and another one past the full term, and they are evaluated according to their date of birth.
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Health and development-wise, premature babies are evaluated according to their expected due date, rather than their actual date of birth for the first year.
 
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