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<title>Stephen Hawking lands after zero-G flight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I had worried it would kill him... As Zero Gravity Corp.'s modified Boeing 727 jet touched down here at NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility on Thursday. Although specific details are not yet known, Hawking's host for the flight, Zero Gravity co-founder and chief executive officer Peter Diamandis, signaled with his fingers that the world-famous physicist went weightless eight times.]]></description>
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<title>Stephen Hawking to go weightless in April</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Let's hope he survives it: "British physicist Stephen Hawking, who is world-famous for his intellectual prowess as well as his physical frailty, has made a firm date with weightlessness on April 26, aboard a jet flying out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."]]></description>
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<title>Stephen Hawking in space</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British billionaire Richard Branson says he's sending over a medical officer to talk with physicist Stephen Hawking about getting him into space. That's how the founder of Virgin Galactic responded to Hawking's comment that "maybe Richard Branson will help" him achieve his long-held goal of reaching the final frontier, even though he's a quadripleg]]></description>
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<title>Hawking looks for answers on Yahoo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The famed British astrophysicist and best-selling author has turned to Yahoo Answers, a new feature in which anyone can pose a question for fellow Internet users to try to answer. By Friday afternoon, nearly 17,000 Yahoo Inc. users had responded.

Hawking's question: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"]]></description>
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<title>Stephen Hawking: Earth Could Become Like Venus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Before an audience of 500 at a seminar in Beijing, the celebrity cosmologist said he was afraid that Earth "might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid.''  The comment is a pointed one for China, which is the second largest emitter of the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.]]></description>
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<title>Stephen Hawking says pope told him not to study beginning of universe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During an hourlong lecture to a sold-out audience at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hawking quoted the pope as saying, "It's OK to study the universe and where it began. But we should not enquire into the beginning itelf because that was the moment of creation and the work of God." The scientist then joked during a lecture in Hong Kong, "I was glad he didn't realize I had presented a paper at the conference suggesting how the universe began. I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo."]]></description>
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<title>Hawking Says Humans Must Colonize Space</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told a news conference in Hong Kong that humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years. "It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."]]></description>
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