One thing has gone unmentioned in all the eulogies for Professor Stephen Hawking, who died this week at the age of 76. Sure, he was a physics legend whose calculations forever changed how we view time, the universe and everything.
But he was also a hoopy frood who really knew where his towel was.
In other words, Hawking was a big fan of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — the hilarious five-book “trilogy” and movie that began life as a BBC radio show. And there could be no more fitting tribute to his intergalactic greatness than for Hawking to become the voice of the all-knowing Guide itself. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Stephen Hawking's fitting final role: How he literally became the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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