Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89

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Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
OP - December 09, 2012, 03:30 PM

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British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore has died, aged 89, his friends and colleagues have said.

He "passed away peacefully at 12:25 this afternoon" at his home in Selsey, West Sussex, they said in a statement.

Sir Patrick presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him the longest-running host of the same television show ever.

He wrote dozens of books on astronomy and his research was used by the US and the Russians in their space programmes.

Described by one of his close friends as "fearlessly eccentric", Sir Patrick was notable for his habit of wearing a monocle on screen and his idiosyncratic style.

Sir Patrick presented the first edition of The Sky at Night on 24 April 1957. He last appeared in an episode broadcast on Monday.

A statement by his friends and staff said: "After a short spell in hospital last week, it was determined that no further treatment would benefit him, and it was his wish to spend his last days in his own home, Farthings, where he today passed on, in the company of close friends and carers and his cat Ptolemy.

"Over the past few years, Patrick, an inspiration to generations of astronomers, fought his way back from many serious spells of illness and continued to work and write at a great rate, but this time his body was too weak to overcome the infection which set in, a few weeks ago.

"He was able to perform on his world record-holding TV programme The Sky at Night right up until the most recent episode .

"His executors and close friends plan to fulfil his wishes for a quiet ceremony of interment, but a farewell event is planned for what would have been Patrick's 90th birthday in March 2013."
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More in the new article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939

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Reply #1 - December 09, 2012, 03:46 PM

i was watching the program he hosts about two days ago, and I thought to myself hmm he is pretty old he isn't dead yet. At least I can stop worrying about that now.

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Reply #2 - December 09, 2012, 04:04 PM

RIP.

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Reply #3 - December 09, 2012, 04:09 PM

Well one day everything that is born has to die. Patrick Moore had great life and great contribution to make lay man understand Space and Space science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRB325zhws

That is a very nice Patrick Moore's interview to watch., we should remember him for what he did

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Reply #4 - December 12, 2012, 08:20 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NHiSakPND8

Known Universe - Surviving Outer Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxjlxfJYc0

ha! look at those tubes and look at that science is silly religious books ., We came a long way from the time Patrick Moore started looking at sky to the present days where we are exploring outer edge of our solar system with that voyager 1

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Reply #5 - December 14, 2012, 02:34 PM

Meh.

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Reply #6 - December 14, 2012, 03:15 PM

Quote from: toor on December 14, 2012, 02:34 PM
Meh.

huh! Errrrrr whoooooooo.

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Every person has there own limits and own problem and they live in their times what they learned from others.
The first is that Moore’s bigotry went far beyond a few crass comments about Star Trek. His 2003 autobiography set out some interesting thoughts about homosexuals and AIDS. He infamously referred to immigrants as ‘parasites’, declaring that he would “send them all back to where they came from.” Of Germans he believed that “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.” With a political career that included chairmanship of the United Country Party, Moore was out there whichever generation’s standards you choose to judge him by.

The second is that you can’t easily separate his professional accomplishments from his private views. My friend Kash Farooq is absolutely right when he says that we should be able to appreciate his work an accomplishments even while acknowledging his failings, but this becomes problematic when people make sweeping claims about him being a great man, or a superb communicator of science. Moore inspired millions of budding young astronomers to pick up a telescope; but if you were a woman, or a homosexual, or an immigrant, or the descendant of immigrants, then you were not particularly welcome in Sir Patrick Moore’s vision of British science.

that is all right.. but we are looking at the other side. And few discussions would have easily changed him from his bad side.. he was bit upset because UK govt was not spending enough on UK Elderly people but spending more on immigrants..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3TIzrBY85I

hmmm.... he is experiencing god..

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