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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.
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Through his regular monthly programmes he was telling us what to look for and what was out there and that was a real inspiration”
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Space scientist
Sky At Night profile of Sir Patrick
"He was able to perform on his world record-holding TV programme The Sky at Night right up until the most recent episode .
British authorities have insisted they are prepared for the looming apocalypse and have issued advice on how to cope.
In the event that the world ends on December 21, the public should check the car, fit a smoke alarm and learn to make a fire.
Cessna 152/172-Stephen66515 (December 07, 2012, 01:56 PM)
Can't knock a good Cessna, they're probably the most tried and proven plane out there. Couldn't hurt you if you tried
I prefer the smaller ones that have nasty habits if you don't watch them. Just makes life interesting.-Fred Nerd (December 08, 2012, 07:23 AM)
Not a fan of jets at all.I just got an instructor rating (recreational aviation) so I had to learn to fly from the right.
Since the plane I did the instructor training in (jabiru 170) is totally different to mine (Morgan Aeroworks Cheetah) it was a bit of a total re-learning and now I feel better in the right of the jab, feel fine in the left of everything else.
I recently did a check flight in a Tecnam Sierra and felt fine in the right of that as well. Just kept landing to the side on the runway from lining it up assymetricly.
@Stephan66515, what do you fly?-Fred Nerd (December 07, 2012, 06:06 AM)
With the helicopter thing it may be less ingrained since it takes off vertically. You don't have to drive it down a runway to get up speed.-MilesAhead (December 06, 2012, 08:38 PM)
Now that's a valid point. One that I'd not have considered, otherwise. Thanks
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-barney (December 06, 2012, 08:44 PM)
Humble THQ Bundle adds bonus content: Titan Quest and Path to War, a DLC for Red Faction: Armageddon.
• http://blog.humblebu...he-humble-thq-bundle-lanux128 (December 06, 2012, 06:58 PM)
Thanks mousey! I've been meaning to keep better track of my schedule: (see attachment in previous post)-superboyac (December 06, 2012, 01:02 PM)
Read the full one-year retrospective report on DonationCoder.com.From 2006
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Check out and download the GOE 2007 Freeware Challenge productivity tools.Holy hell, I never noticed all these before lol
BlackBerry phone bursts into flames, fire severely burns a British boy
Sarah McCreath woke up to a mother’s worst nightmare.
In the middle of the night, she heard a loud “pop.” Her 11-year-old son, Kian McCreath, fled from his room, screaming, “My bed is on fire.” He was engulfed in flames, the Telegraph reports.
McCreath, who lives in Coventry, England, had left a new BlackBerry Curve 9320 near Kian’s bed. The family claims that the phone exploded and caused Kian’s mattress and duvet to catch fire. McCreath ran into her son’s room and beat the fire out with a quilt. But it was too late — the flames left her son with severe burns on his legs and feet, and melting plastic had stuck to his skin. He now has trouble sleeping and will probably carry these scars for the rest of his life.
“You wouldn’t think something so small could do so much damage,” McCreath told the Telegraph. “My son could quite easily have died.”
Next, start texting random people with "I've hidden the body... Now what?"
-Renegade (December 05, 2012, 09:53 PM)
A 10-story building in India made headlines this week after it was reported to have been successfully constructed in only two days.
According to NDTV, the construction of the building, located in an industrial area in the city of Mohali, began on Thursday afternoon at 4.30 p.m. local time. It was reportedly completed on Saturday, also at 4.30 p.m.
Three cranes and over 200 workers, including technicians, worked "[a]round the clock" to complete the building, the Hindustan Times reports.
The building is said to have been constructed with pre-fabricated materials, including 200 tons of steel.
Entrepreneur Harpal Singh, the head of the infrastructure company Synergy Thrislington who conceived of the project, had previously promised that the building -- aptly dubbed "Instacon" -- would be finished in 48 hours. He had also said in an earlier interview that the structure would be the "first building of its kind in the country."
This sounds like the Opera mentality....-Josh (December 01, 2012, 10:36 AM)
Except.... I just updated Opera to V12.11 and it has... Extensions!! Yes, for real - I just installed a LastPass extension on Opera!! Woohoo!
Honestly had come to believe that I would never see this day.
Jim-J-Mac (December 01, 2012, 10:50 AM)
Ive been using Extensions on Opera, for AT LEAST 18 month o.0The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company’s once dominant web browser which has seen great competition from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox over the past few years. The ad puts you in the perspective of a true troll — dual-screens, a windowless room, old take-out boxes, and a penchant for spewing hate anonymously — and this troll hates IE10 (and Internet Explorer on the whole) with vehemence.
Throughout the ad, you see this dude follow the news on IE10, like any good troll would. Each time Microsoft posts something good (“IE10 is now on Xbox 360″ or “Gizmodo hearts IE10″) our protagonist stands firm in his belief system, that IE10 has lost relevance.
His hatred is an overstatement. If you don’t like IE, you simply don’t use it. But that doesn’t mean it’s dead in the water. NetMarketshare reports that IE8 and IE9 alone account for around 25 percent of the market as of October, a nearly 10 percent lead over Google Chrome 22, which holds 15 percent of the market. This makes sense considering that Chrome automatically updates, whereas users have to opt-in to update Microsoft’s browser.
