# Stephen Hawking hospitalized **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739 "2009-04-20T16:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739/21 "2009-04-21T16:27:58Z")
He can’t die yet! He needs to do a cameo on _Big Bang Theory_! ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739/22 "2009-04-21T16:32:00Z")
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30323352/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30323352/) Sounds like he’s doing better, and his family is now expecting him to recover. That’s good news, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739/23 "2009-04-21T16:41:02Z")
I don’t know why this news affects me like this – it’s not like we haven’t had Hawking longer than we deserve – but I’m glad he seems better. When he does pass, it will leave a howling black hole in our public life. Looking at him with his assistive devices makes me think of all the people who had his condition in past centuries; we have no idea what they thought or could have contributed. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739/24 "2009-04-21T18:38:52Z")
I got to meet/see him once. A friend of mine was thinking about transferring to Cal Tech and I went with him on the campus tour. Our tour group passed a man in a wheel chair with a nurse sitting out in the sun. No one else noticed but we went over and asked his nurse if we could get a picture. For some reason he didn’t have his voice computer with him and was just out to enjoy a little sun. She looked at him and said it would be ok. Unfortunately, my buddy has the picture. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-hospitalized/493739.md?page=1)