Stephen Hawking on Various Issues Wednesday, Jun 11 2008
This is Stephen Hawking on the unexplained mystery of the universe he’d most like to know, space travel, the children’s book he wrote with his daughter, and on whether he is religious/spiritual. Sorry, the video is in Flash format and nothing else is available. You can download it here.
Simple questions, intelligent answers.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
In future could you please provide a brief summary of such (presumably video) content?
I’m sure that I’m not the only person who doesn’t have whatever plugin may be needed to view this (probably Flash) but wants to know what Stephen says.
Also if you provide more detail then I might be able to find it on youtube or some other place. But even if I can’t view it, reading your summary of Stephen Hawking would be better than nothing.
Finally a link to just download an MP4 file is preferred. Failing that a URL for a Youtube page (not a youtube embed) is a good thing so that tools such as youtube-dl can be used by people who don’t have Flash.
One thing to consider is that there are two significant groups of people who don’t have flash. Software libertarians and blind people. I expect that both groups have a greater than average interest in transhumanism (for different reasons).
June 12th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Is there a transcript for this video? He has a few comments that would be worth quoting in the future.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I’d like to second Russel Coker about videos only available as swf being an abomination to people who dislike using non-free software.
Fortunately, this specific video is also available for download as a FLV file, on “http://v.current.com/video/asset/890/135/17/gQUQp3jM.flv”. While this isn’t a particularly open format, it can be played (and converted into other formats) using only Free Software, e.g. with MPlayer.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Siegfried… why don’t you take the ten minutes to write one?