freecounterpoint: In the World of Tomorrow, Hawking is Tottenkopf?

Thursday, November 30, 2006

He looks about as alive, eh?

I suppose that leaves Sky Captain JJ to revv up his Coanda jet and save us all.

Tecumseh said...: At least, Coanda did something concrete, like build a jet engine, and get off the ground for a few seconds using it. What did Hawking do lately, besides jabber?; 12/01/2006 8:19 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Like him or not, Hawking still appeals to that idyllic sensibility. First it was Virgil's, Eclogues, telling Tityrus that he desired the wilderness and plowing his fields, wanting to shape them into something that yields. Then the notion of a New World, a strange place where a man could mine gold, or grow crops, or whatever (the Native American was not consulted). Taking yet another huge leap through time, then the Harvard prof. of history, Frederick Jackson Turner, who in 1893 said American democracy resulted from one continuous clash with the frontier environment after another (although Turner failed to specify what he meant by "democracy," and who it applied to). And another leap, we get Hawking and his teleportation device. Does he ever propose how we're supposed to warp? Or is this just a Cambridge Professor who spent a little too much time in front of the Trekkie tube?; 12/01/2006 9:17 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Hawking does have a very warped mind, some have even described his thoughts as radiating from a black hole. But given that broken man his due. Anyone so longed trapped in a iron cage of a body would long to leave this earth and let imagine the impossible openness of the stars........; 12/01/2006 3:55 PM

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