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jacey ([personal profile] jacey) wrote2012-12-09 02:46 pm
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RIP Sir Patrick Moore

RIP Sir Patrick Moore.

I watched The Sky at Night, last night (the repeat from Monday's broadcast) not realising that he'd died earlier in the day and that was his last ever broadcast. I remember being allowed to stay up to watch it as a child.

Sir Patrick himself was at my son's graduation at Cambridge, always invited, apparently, presumably as a fellow of Magdalene College. I wish I'd had the nerve to tell him that even though I knew nothing about astronomy, his programmes had inspired me to dream.

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2012-12-09 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I never knew that. Thanks for letting us know:-(

When will we ever see his like again? A xylophone-playing astronomer who spoke so very, very fast...

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2012-12-09 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He played a mean xylophone too! :o)