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Sir Patrick Moore RIP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Swampy


    That the guy from Games Master?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Just saw this on the news. Found out he played the xylophone as well as being into astronomy. RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    RIP> A legend of British science and British Broadcasting plus a great friend of Brian May.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    it was always impossible to have a conversation with him

    he just stared into space


    RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Ando's Saggy Bottom


    Swampy wrote: »
    That the guy from Games Master?

    Exactly the first thing that sprang to mind!

    Seems like he had a good and varied life which is all you can ask.

    RIP.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Shame to see the great man go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,335 ✭✭✭✭klose


    Loved his shows on bbc, always very interesting!

    Rip


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Hardly sad at his age, but he'll be missed. I wonder who'll take over The Sky At Night?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Ah no. That guy was about as suitable for television as a dead kitten, but he was brilliant.


    RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    RIP. Absolute legend of science, and helped bring it to the common man.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    RIP to the man......he was good at what he did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Swampy wrote: »
    That the guy from Games Master?

    I do remember him from that actually.

    :D

    More remembered for the Sky at Night though i'd say.

    RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Sorry to hear this. R.I.P.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    RIP to the great man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    Thought it was the Star Trek guy...oops


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    RIP patrick
    i loved the show


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭stanley1


    one of the last great english eccentrics, i will badly miss him on sky at night, rip


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    A real eccentric gone - RIP.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Hardly sad at his age, but he'll be missed. I wonder who'll take over The Sky At Night?

    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox

    The Rock n roll Prof!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    That is a pity. He did an awful lot to introduce astronomy to the general populace. The US had Carl Sagan, England had Patrick Moore. I barely remember watching him on BBC at a friend's house during the Voyager fly-bys. He and Leo Enright on RTE got me interested in astronomy (Something I must take up again, especially since comet C/2012 S1 should be so spectacular next November hopefully). He was quite difficult to understand the last few years but he will be missed.

    At least the ESA will have a name for one of their future probes. RIP Patrick Moore


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    A great man indeed, at least he kept going until the end. RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    The sky tonight won't be the same without Patrick .

    Interesting chapter of his life below from Wiki


    Moore lied about his age in order to join the RAF and fight in World War II at the age of sixteen, and from 1940 until 1945 he served as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, reaching the rank of Flight lieutenant. He first received his flying training in Canada, during which time he met Albert Einstein and Orville Wright while on leave in New York. The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fiancée, a nurse called Lorna, was killed by a bomb which struck her ambulance. Moore subsequently remarked that he never married because "there was no one else for me...second best is no good for me...I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be."In his autobiography he stated that after sixty years he still thought about her, and that because of her death "if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Hardly sad at his age, but he'll be missed. I wonder who'll take over The Sky At Night?
    Why is it not sad just because he was old?
    It's still sad when someone dies.
    RIP


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox

    The Rock n roll Prof!

    I think Brian May (from Queen) will be favourite in the running for the job.

    He was mooted for it about 2 year ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox
    Brian Cox

    The Rock n roll Prof!

    dunno i thought maybe Chris Lintott


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Swampy wrote: »
    That the guy from Games Master?

    After Hours in a sentence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Latchy wrote: »
    The sky tonight won't be the same without Patrick .
    Interesting chapter of his life below from Wiki

    Moore lied about his age in order to join the RAF and fight in World War II at the age of sixteen, and from 1940 until 1945 he served as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, reaching the rank of Flight lieutenant. He first received his flying training in Canada, during which time he met Albert Einstein and Orville Wright while on leave in New York. The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fiancée, a nurse called Lorna, was killed by a bomb which struck her ambulance. Moore subsequently remarked that he never married because "there was no one else for me...second best is no good for me...I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be."In his autobiography he stated that after sixty years he still thought about her, and that because of her death "if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down."
    Awful thing to say (the last bit) but the poor man - no interest in any woman again, that's fecking heartbreak to the extreme.

    Will be missed greatly - I know fook all about astronomy but I've heard about him loads of times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    Found out he played the xylophone as well as being into astronomy. RIP




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