//Yes, Hawking was a monumentally great scientific mind.

Runner, with his grade ten education is not//

I think you're being far too generous in your assessment of runner's scientific education. My nephew has a deeper scientific understanding than runner, and he's only in kindergarten - but at least he's aware that dinosaurs existed before humans.

//Nothing YAM said was disrespectful of the deceased.//

Maybe, but I don't think runner knows that.

//we know truth does not fit your sick narratives.//

Sick narratives like being disrespectful to the deceased out of spite is a dick move? You really are determined to make as much of twat as yourself as possible, aren't you?

//I am going nowhere.//

No, you're just going to keep carrying on like some screaming toddler, making a racket and being annoying all the grown-ups. All the while congratulating yourself profusely for being so clever and wonderful and not narcisstic at all.

You're just a troll, runner. And what makes it particularly sad is that you lack the insight to realise you're just a sad little troll, and will hotly deny what is obvious to anybody that's read more than two of your posts.

Pathetic.

For these here to pay their respects to a great man and not just try to seek attention through trolling, here is Brian Cox discussing Hawking's life and work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZX_mlFz2c

I have most of his books. His "a brief history of time" was fabulous.

That he lived to 76 after getting a prognosis of 3 years to live at 22 is a triumph of the human spirit.

I recently watched the film of Stephen Hawking's life,
"The Theory of Everything." It's available on DVD - and
I'd highly recommend getting hold of a copy either for
yourself or as a gift (Easter is just around the corner).
The actor who plays Hawking - Eddie Redmayne, received an
oscar for his role as Hawking. And Hawking approved of the
film. He stated that watching the actor was like watching
himself. An inspirational film about an inspirational man.
Well worth viewing.

I'll be giving it as a gift to my son (who studied science
at uni).

Hi there RUNNER; TONI LAVIS & FOXY...There's no doubt whatsoever the world will mourn the passing of Prof. Stephen W. HAWKING. Undoubtedly, he was an intellectual giant among men, but to ordinary blokes like me who look at things more fundamentally or pragmatically, he was a real 'gun' of a bloke to have the guts to keep going amid all his physical woes and attendant hardships, like emotional loneliness he must've felt down through the years.

Probably starved of; and longed for; legitimate female company, purely as a man? Never as who he taught himself to be, a veritable genius, for he'd be literally surrounded by these beautiful young things, all wishing to bask in the glare of his reflected fame. It's like these ultra-rich old men, they always seem to have a young, beautiful wife/lady on their arm.

I recall one of the Sydney's brothels I used to attend regularly, at least twice weekly, and they had two or three women there, who specialised only in taking male clients with deformities, some were extremely deformed. I 'think' they called themselves surrogates? Anyway, I gather you had to book them, and their 'charges' were based more on time, than otherwise.

Anyhow I decided to have a word with 'em , to see if she and her offsider were not putting in the old 'Julius Marlow' into their clients? And I found it to be quite the contrary in. Which changed my opinion of them greatly, viewing them as someone, who provided a real service to those who were less fortunate than us. Morally I suppose some folk might look down on them, I dunno? I do know it's a tough friggin' world for some, I reckon.

I purchased one of his 'little' paperback books, thinking I might be able to understand something of the Universe - at pp2-3, I was done! Couldn't make head nor tale of what he was saying. But looking at Steve the man, I reckon I might understand some of what he must have been feeling down through the years.

o sung wu

a guy called Nick Vujicic is one of my real heroes. He grew up in Australia and is absolutley amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzsjEmjjHs