Interesting conspiracy! Although I'm not sold on the motive. The article is rather thin in that area - are we supposed to believe that they found someone to impersonate Stephen just for the sake of book sales?
Nobody needs to "impersonate" Hawking. It's a computer doing everything. The guy sits in that chair like a used wad of chewing gum (Sausage Party refrence for those thinking I'm harsh)
They don't need to act in order to impersonate him, no - but covering up a death is not easy. That took work and involved risk. Why would they invest that energy - just for some book sales?
Maybe the Hawking family was a bunch of money-grubbing cunts and wanted to milk their golden goose for a few more years, but are we then going to believe that a bunch of amateurs successfully found a body double and convinced them to live the life of a potato for decades? For a cut of book sales?
The only people who can exert that kind of influence (IMO) is the government. And I can't really see any way they're profiting from Hawking still being around.
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Amadameus ago
Interesting conspiracy! Although I'm not sold on the motive. The article is rather thin in that area - are we supposed to believe that they found someone to impersonate Stephen just for the sake of book sales?
Ohsoedgy ago
Nobody needs to "impersonate" Hawking. It's a computer doing everything. The guy sits in that chair like a used wad of chewing gum (Sausage Party refrence for those thinking I'm harsh)
Amadameus ago
They don't need to act in order to impersonate him, no - but covering up a death is not easy. That took work and involved risk. Why would they invest that energy - just for some book sales?
Maybe the Hawking family was a bunch of money-grubbing cunts and wanted to milk their golden goose for a few more years, but are we then going to believe that a bunch of amateurs successfully found a body double and convinced them to live the life of a potato for decades? For a cut of book sales?
The only people who can exert that kind of influence (IMO) is the government. And I can't really see any way they're profiting from Hawking still being around.