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Title: Stephen Hawking
Post by: pscocoa on 19 October 2011, 22:51:32

Just travelled to Brussels with Stephen Hawking on Eurostar. He has a support team of 5 - quite a major logistics operation

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: Vamps on 19 October 2011, 22:57:09

Quote from: pscocoa on 19 October 2011, 22:51:32

Just travelled to Brussels with Stephen Hawking on Eurostar. He has a support team of 5 - quite a major logistics operation

I was involved with sending a similarly disabled young person to America for a trip with College last winter, yes, quite a logistics operation.....but he went.... :y

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: Rods2 on 20 October 2011, 02:06:07

Stephen Hawking has done amazing well medically for someone who would normally died in his 20's from muscular dystrophy and has obviously been a major asset to the progression of science and society as a whole.  :y :y :y

When you meet mega intelligent people and I met a few when I worked at RAE Farnborough, it makes you realize how thick you are.  ::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: pscocoa on 20 October 2011, 20:41:05

Part of the discussion on the train was his voice used on Pink Floyd's Division Bell - track "Keep Talking".

Remember?

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals

Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

We learned to talk"


This was an extract from a 1990s BT Commercial

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 20 October 2011, 21:02:15

Quote from: pscocoa on 20 October 2011, 20:41:05

Part of the discussion on the train was his voice used on Pink Floyd's Division Bell - track "Keep Talking".

Remember?

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals

Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

We learned to talk"


This was an extract from a 1990s BT Commercial

I like that PS, although I sometimes wonder if many humans – certainly those of us in the 'developed' countries - have lost the ability to engage the imagination with some quality thinking because of the convenient means of distributing the spoken word by the very medium being advertised in that BT piece you referred to.

For many people there’s too much talking and not enough thinking and such technology, designed to make communication increasingly immediate, may be our ultimate downfall.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: pscocoa on 20 October 2011, 21:12:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9GLngXyw0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9GLngXyw0)

full version

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 20 October 2011, 21:20:32

That wouldn't do well nowadays as there is an absence of 'cute' little animals and opera singers appearing in it. :(

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking
Post by: hercules on 21 October 2011, 20:02:40

Quote from: pscocoa on 20 October 2011, 20:41:05

Part of the discussion on the train was his voice used on Pink Floyd's Division Bell - track "Keep Talking".

Remember?

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals

Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

We learned to talk"


This was an extract from a 1990s BT Commercial

what a tune :y