Just how cool is THIS?
Stephen Hawking, a paragon of geeky coolness, and I hear he’s pretty smart to boot, just went for a ride on the Vomit Comet.
Add a parabolic flight to my wish list. Go Zero G has Professor Hawking’s flight covered on the front page.
Here’s a link to The Age’s coverage where I discovered it first thing this morning.
I really admire Professor Hawking. He turned hard concepts simple and popularized common sense ideas for the long term existance of humanity at large. I stand amoung the legions who would be honoured to comingle our barf in sub-orbit someday.