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What is Pi Day?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=pi+day&pc=MOZI&form=MOZLBR

This Pi day converges with the two of our greatest minds, today we lost Stephen Hawking, on Albert Einstein's birthday, and Pi day, which will make this one bittersweet.

Happy Pi Day! What you might not know about the number that never ends - Technology & Science - CBC News

So we will forever be reminded of Einstein, and Hawking, who is now also forever associated with this day.

I watched his latest videos on YouTube with sadness for the loss of Hawking, an inspiration for me, and millions around the world. His videos on YouTube remind me of his brilliance, and well grounded perspective. Stephen mentions in one how he yearned to fly to space yet despaired of anyone ever taking him. Sir Richard Branson offered him a ride and Stephen said he accepted. He said that, to date, he never changed his mind. Love him or hate him, you cannot dismiss him.

Goodbye Stephen Hawking.

Stephen Hawking actually did a cover of "The Galaxy Song" from "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life." He had a great sense of humor, and here he is singing it:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=stephen+hawking's+favorite+song&view=detail&mid=531B5D72590C548354C2531B5D72590C548354C2&FORM=VIRE

Happy Pi day.

Here the lyrics so you can sing along with Stephen:
Galaxy Song
Monty Python

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

RV/Derek
http://www.rvroadie.com Email on the bottom of my website page.
Retired AF 1971-1998


When you see a worthy man, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy man, look inside yourself. - Confucius

 

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ... Voltaire

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OMG! I got diabetes just reading that!

RV/Derek
http://www.rvroadie.com Email on the bottom of my website page.
Retired AF 1971-1998


When you see a worthy man, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy man, look inside yourself. - Confucius

 

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ... Voltaire

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