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To: Rambi who wrote (118171)	8/14/2009 12:05:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 540805

Obama's mother was Hawking's father's uncle's neighbor's maid's husband's aunt. The plot thickens.

To: Rambi who wrote (118171)	8/15/2009 12:16:52 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540805

Hi, Rambi. Just thought I'd copy this here to give you a chance for self-reflection. BTW, do you really keep people on ignore, and then read and comment here on their posts from other threads anyway? That's a tad mental, don't ya' think? Anyway, here it is from your pal, you know who: _______________________________________________________________ From: Rambi Read Replies (1) of 118191 I was looking to see what responses there might be to the Palin revelation and found the funniest post.. Someone mentioned that Stephen Hawking wasn't put to death under the NHC in Britain, and the RWer response was "If you're a world-renowned scientist, they'll figure you're worth spending money on." As if Hawking came out of the womb carrying a sign "Don't kill me! I am going to be a world-renowned scientist!" Just like Obama's family knew he was going to be president, and the hospital, which turns over birth information to the papers, agreed. ---- As it happens I'm the RWer who posted the "If you're a world-renowned scientist, they'll figure you're worth spending money on" comment. Well, its my turn to comment now. What a pity Rambi didn't check to find out whether Hawking had actually come out of the womb with ALS. He didn't. Rambi obviously didn't know that. I did know it, however. I find it helps to know something about the person you're talking about before writing about them, even an offhand remark like the one I made. Among the things I knew and Rambi didn't is that Hawking didn't begin to develop ALS till he was a young adult, already married. He'd already gotten his BA from Oxford and had moved on to Cambridge. And he didn't immediately become as he is now. Turns out he didn't get to the point of being unable to get out of bed and feed himself till 1974 when, yes, he WAS already a world-renowned scientist, exactly as I said. He didn't lose his speech entirely till 1985 and need to talk through a machine, though it had begun deteriorating earlier. He fathered his first two children in 1967 and 1969 and his last child in 1979. What Hawking had accomplished by 1974: In the late 1960s, he and his Cambridge friend and colleague, Roger Penrose, applied a new, complex mathematical model they had created from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.[16] This led, in 1970, to Hawking proving the first of many singularity theorems; such theorems provide a set of sufficient conditions for the existence of a singularity in space-time. This work showed that, far from being mathematical curiosities which appear only in special cases, singularities are a fairly generic feature of general relativity.[17] He supplied a mathematical proof, along with Brandon Carter, Werner Israel and D. Robinson, of John Wheeler's "No-Hair Theorem" – namely, that any black hole is fully described by the three properties of mass, angular momentum, and electric charge. Hawking also suggested that, upon analysis of gamma ray emissions, after the Big Bang, primordial mini black holes were formed. With Bardeen and Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics, drawing an analogy with thermodynamics. In 1974, he calculated that black holes should thermally create and emit subatomic particles, known today as Hawking radiation, until they exhaust their energy and evaporate.[18] en.wikipedia.org Congrats, Rambi for demonstrating once again that if you don't know much about what you're talking about, Baker's 'View from the Center of the 14% who approve of the Pelosi Congress' is the place for you. To top it off, I see that Rambi has me on ignore, prompting me to wonder, Does EVERYONE on the 'View from the Center of the 14% who approve of the Pelosi Congress' thread read my posts despite having me on ignore?