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Patrick Moore has died.

Spent an afternoon with him at the Science Museum when I won a competition as a schoolboy.
Wonderful man.

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  • Apologies - other thread just spotted.
  • edited December 2012
    Can't believe he was only 89, seems to have been the same age all my life which should make him around 150. RIP
  • Very sad. A very clever man and a true British eccentric. RIP
  • Kap10 said:

    Can't believe he was only 89, seems to have been the same age all my life which should make him around 150. RIP

    So true - RIP Patrick

  • rip the gamesmaster
  • RIP Mr Moore.

    Mad as a box of frogs.
  • I always had a vague memory of seeing Richard Rufus on Gamesmaster when I was a kid. Found the episodes today whilst reminiscing about Gamesmaster.
    He went head to head at Sega Soccer against Michael Duberry and Chris Armstrong. Bit bizzarre!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70gwx3KZUY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZSZG9c5yU
  • A good astronomer but completely nuts.
    some of his best quotes:
    'We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.' In an interview in 2011.
    'The trouble is that the BBC now is run by women and it shows: soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays.'
    'Just goes to show the dangers of the metric system' when a NASA probe landed in the wrong place.

    And finally he was Minister for Extra-Terrestrial Affairs athe Monster Raving Looney Party.



  • Apparently his only ever love was killed after the ambulance she was in was bombed during WW2.

    Last year he said something along the lines of 'Im sure nice Germans exist but i am yet to meet one.'
  • I always had a vague memory of seeing Richard Rufus on Gamesmaster when I was a kid. Found the episodes today whilst reminiscing about Gamesmaster.
    He went head to head at Sega Soccer against Michael Duberry and Chris Armstrong. Bit bizzarre!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70gwx3KZUY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZSZG9c5yU

    Nice one Rufus!
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  • A national treasure who, as has been said, seems to have been around for ever. Should name a star after him if they haven't already done so. RIP Sir Patrick,
  • My best mate was on the sky at night where we met after me seeing him after losing touch.We both went to Bloomfield Boys,Plumpstead. We we did our first gig as musicians there.I went on to be a pro musician working at the top level and he is now a professor of astro physics .Patrick was a dear friend to both of us and I have tears in my eyes as I'm typing this.
  • Patrick Moore (and to a lesser extent James Burke) were massive influences on me as a schoolboy, following the space race. Have a lifetime love of astronomy thanks to Patrick. I never met him but I have a photo of me and my daughter standing next to his waxwork figure (I think at the European Space Agency in Holland??)! RIP
  • Loved Patrick Moore he really fitted the great British eccentric mould to a tee. I was interested to read that the one love of his life was killed in an air raid in 1943 her death devastated him so much he never took up with another woman and gave him a lifelong hatred of The Germans. None the less a great bloke and a fine braodcaster he will be missed by all.
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