Stephen Hawking warns about global warming

deadparrot

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:07 AM
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Stephen Hawking warns about global warming

BEIJING - Stephen Hawking expressed concern about global warming Wednesday even as he charmed and provoked a group of Chinese students.

Before an audience of 500 at a seminar in Beijing, the celebrity cosmologist said, "I like Chinese culture, Chinese food and above all Chinese women. They are beautiful."

The audience of mostly university students and professors and a smattering of journalists laughed and applauded.

Asked about the environment, Hawking, who suffers from a degenerative disease, uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computerized voice synthesizer, said he was "very worried about global warming."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/china_stephen_hawking

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:11 AM
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1. He's just a cripple- he can't even talk! What does HE know?

--sez Duh-buh...

The most intelligent man on the planet v. the most evil moran on the planet. Stephen will take ol' George for a ten-count in the first round!

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Canuckistanian

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:21 AM
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3. The absolute irony of the thing

Look who gets to walk around and command the press' attention and who gets to be trapped in a wheelchair with a crippling disease?

Proof positive that there is no god, IMO.

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:59 AM
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4. Stephen may be trapped in a faulty body, but

Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 01:01 AM by Prisoner_Number_Six

he has a mind that roams the universe.

In the meantime, Gee Dubya can't even get past a simple door.

Which of them is REALLY trapped?

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tanyev

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Thu Jun-22-06 06:44 AM
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10. That picture says it all, doesn't it?

You don't even have to photoshop most of his pictures. The stupid is right there on the surface, for all to see.

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zonmoy

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:10 AM
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6. or it could be that god is a sick and evil monster.

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K8-EEE

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:20 AM
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2. He Needs To Talk To The Murkins At FR!

They ain't worried! (Play "Deliverance" theme here.)

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SKKY

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Thu Jun-22-06 01:32 AM
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5. This guy is absolutely amazing...

...even as his body degenerates, his mind appears to be getting sharper and sharper. Let's see Michael Crighten says
global warming is a farce. Hawking says he's worried about it. I'm going with Hawking on this one.

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Triana

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Thu Jun-22-06 06:26 AM
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8. I'd believe Hawking before any Repuke or any...

..Repuke jockstrap. If HE's worried, we better be worried.

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unhappycamper

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Thu Jun-22-06 05:47 AM
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7. The Chinese get it.

<snip from article>

"Our country needs science," said Xu. "No basic science means no basic technology and no economic development."

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Strathos

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Thu Jun-22-06 06:32 AM
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9. I hope he's had the breaks on his wheelchair checked

You never know what the rethugs will do to silence you.

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fasttense

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Thu Jun-22-06 07:58 AM
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11. So, who are you going to believe? Stephen Hawking or crazy

right-wing wacko faith based scientist from Alabama - John Christy is professor of atmospheric science and the director of the Earth Systems Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and he says there's no imminent threat of catastrophic global warming.

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