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Context: He's in the files

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[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lol all the time travelers go to when hawking was on Epstien Island

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 20 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

What the fuck is he in the files for? What did he allegedly do? He’s bound to the chair!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

It's a little ableist to suggest that his being wheelchair-bound would necessarily prevent him from being a pedophile.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

little ablist

Oh FFS, cut it out already with the "ablist!!" screeching

The guy literally can only move his eyes, he literally can barely do anything without a support staff. He can breathe on his own, he can think on his own, that's about it

He cannot be a pedophile is not being ablisi, it's being realistic.

He was there for a scientific conference that was organized there.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

wheelchair-bound

Dude was fully paralyzed. Come one. Are you really that desperate to attack someone? Guy is asking a valid question.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why are you suggesting that paralyzed people are somehow incapable?

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Stephen Hawking reportedly loved strippers. His being paralyzed doesn't/didn't preclude sexual interests, nor untoward sexual pursuits, particularly given his status and presence in the fucking Epstein files.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Doesn't justify you walking around calling people ableist for not knowing that bub. Grow the fuck up.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 minute ago

That's generally how people find out. Until then, it is both at the same time. Schroedinger's douchebag and all.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Then how did he have an affair?

Is power itself not enough to coerce someone, you're saying it has to be physical coercion? That would undo a lot of what we know about sexual assault.

I'm certainly not saying he did it, but "he's paralyzed" is not a good enough defense.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 58 minutes ago

Its not a defense its a line of inquiry. Why do you think people asking what he's accused of are defending him? That doesn't make sense.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Are you implying he fucked?

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 35 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.

He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone "I can connect you with Stephen Hawking" is currency.

The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing -- just a way to appeal to certain people.

I think it's more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

I know one person IRL who was a frequenter of Little St John Island, aka Epstein Island. Wealthy man who made that trip regularly. He was not particularly attractive but he was wealthy. This is the place old wealthy men would go to get sexual satisfaction when nobody else will give it to them.

[–] Soulcreator@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

It's not like Hawking and Epstein traded a few emails talking about science, or had a one off meeting. It appears they had a fair amount of exchanges over a long period of time.

Epstein was a vile human in the worst kind of way and I see no evidence that Hawking was blind to this fact. Half the people on this app wouldn't willingly associate with someone of a different political party than them, but to defend a man who willingly spent time with a convicted sex trafficker? The fact that Hawking was paralyzed doesn't absolve him from willingly enabling (and potentially partaking in) child abuse and sex trafficking.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 10 points 21 hours ago

People have been getting taller over time. Hawking didn't book a big enough venue.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I'd much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.

Even if my goal was to meet a single scientist, I think I'd personally pick any other. Pliny the Elder, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein...

Not to be rude to Mr. Hawking (well, maybe he deserves it, I don't know what got him in to the Epstein files...), but a thorougly average party is simply not likely to attract very many time travellers.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago

What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel?

Not only that, apparently the machine he used to speak was rather difficult to use quickly, and drafting responses could take hours or days depending on how much needed said. Pretty much all of his appearances after he was unable to use his voice were heavily scripted ahead of time.

So unless you're visiting Steven Hawking when he still could talk, it'd be pretty boring as you couldn't have a proper back-and-forth conversation

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

It's because if it were actually possible and they did it, then all of space and time would have collapsed into something akin to a giant black hole, obliterating everything, bringing a violent and inescapable end to it all.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

Just more reason to build a time machine, I guess.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

the reason we don't have time travelers is that the past is no more concrete than the future. [Current science disagrees with the idea that] just like there are infinite potential futures, there are an infinity of potential pasts that could have evolved into the present [instead insisting that the entire past is fully embedded in the present]. [It's not supported by any current theories that] the probability of reaching a particular past is essentially zero.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Time is a physical entity that can be warped, but nobody is creating snaphsots of reality to travel back to and future is entirely a human concept.

Or, analogy to a river (although flawed): you can't create a loop and expect it to still flow. But circumstances can make it flow slower or faster.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 minutes ago

Nobody is creating snapshots, the past is lost, but in a sense it is still entirely, umm, present (forgive the pun). It is apparently not true that there is more than one past that could have evolved into the present. This has bothered me a lot and I don't entirely understand in this moment why that is, but I've looked into it several times and every time eventually assured myself that it was so. Though I haven't accounted for the idea that spaces that were once causally bound to each other can possibly become causally unbound... oh well, down the rabbit hole again.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I vehemently disagree with many worlds theory. I think its a total mindfuck. However I do think that the future influences the present and the past.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Its for the best

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[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honestly, even if time travel were theoretically possible to be invented, there's also a high chance that we're just going to destroy ourselves before we get to that point anyway.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (26 children)

Is it because our solar system is hurdling through space at over 1.5 million miles per hour, so anyone who time travels will find themselves alone in an empty void?

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