Mein Fuhrer! I can valk!

Those were the memorable words of the wheelchair-bound Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) at the end of the movie, where he becomes obviously aroused while discussing a future underground post-nuclear society where only the most "highly stimulating" women would be welcome. Suddenly he rises from his wheelchair and discovers that his miraculous insight has rendered him, er, standing.

Now wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking is headed down the same road, predicting space colonization as the only hope for humanity to "escape" global warming. No word on which women he'd take along, but if Hawking does rise up and walk, maybe we should start paying attention. Til then I think we'd better go with what we got.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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