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"Renowned scientist &lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/stephen-hawking/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stephen Hawking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't want to rain on your parade or anything -- but he'd like you to know there is no such thing as heaven when you die. Debbie Downer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0516_steven_hawking_heaven_TMZ_composite_2\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/05/16/0516-steven-hawking-heaven-tmz-composite-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview with the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven\"&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Hawking explained, \"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there is no heaven ... how does he explain bacon, Bar Refaeli, and the iPad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta content=\"text/html;charset=UTF-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" /&gt;&lt;div style=\"float: right;\"&gt;&lt;!-- relatedpoll --&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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