America and Jay Mohr stare blankly into screens, drool, and ask, "Who will be the Last Comic Standing?" 800 supernerd attendees of the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation know the answer. He, too, stares blankly into a screen and drools, but he's not standing at all.

I'm talking about none other than celebrated megabrain-on-wheels Stephan Hawking, who stripped dreams of interdimensional travel from the manchild eyes of the world's Star Trek fans when he reversed his famous position that matter entering black holes is sucked into parallel universes. But, as only Hawkins can do, he let them down laughing.

To quote the article:

"If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe, but in a mangled form, which contains the information about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable state," said Hawking.

At that point, the audience of about 800 people, including many of his peers, laughed.

I can only assume that the last sentence, describing his peers' laughter, was included because Hawking's statement is not a joke in a form recognizable to the vast majority of our species.


...But seriously folks.

Analogcabin @ 1:39 PM
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