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KlaxonCow wrote:Mathematician John Conway - of "Conway's Game of Life" - and Sir Tim Brooke-Taylor - of the Goodies - have been taken from us by the coronavirus.

I'm afraid, in the coming weeks, we'll inevitably start seeing more names we know.
Sadly true
Very sad to hear the news about Tim Brooke-Taylor. Looked forward to seeing the Goodies when I was young

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John Conway's obviously been mentioned already, but XKCD's tribute is super sweet:

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Does this mean we can start calling ghosts 'gliders' instead?
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Rhythm wrote:John Conway's obviously been mentioned already, but XKCD's tribute is super sweet:

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That graphic makes me a little sad.
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It shouldn't. The best we get out of this life is to leave something behind. I thought it was extremely clever and sweet.
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Brian Dennehy has finally left the stage https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/a ... SApp_Other
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Fine actor, though my fondest memory is accidentally walking into him one morning (I was on auto pilot on my way to work) when he was in The Iceman Cometh in The Abbey (Dublin Theatre)
I apologised (my fault after all ) and then saw my wife for the first time (hence why the memory sticks with me after 26 years)
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Lynn Faulds Wood successfully avoids all potential deathtraps to die of natural causes at 72.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52410491
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Florian Schneider from Kraftwerk :flower:
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Florian :flower:
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TTFN

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I am surprised nobody mentioned Grant Imahara death ...

Despite I wasn't a "super fan" of Mythbusters I've seen quite a few episodes, some were really cool, I always found the "trio" Grant, Bellecci, Byron even a bit more interesting than Jamie and Adam.

I found a bit shocking he died so suddenly and so young.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53401026

Anyway "with all the nerds on this forum" no mention of him ?

Eh .. life can be strange .. may he rest in peace :flower:
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To be honest, I simply didn't know.

What with all that's going on, I think many news stories that would ordinarily lead the headlines are getting buried under articles about Boris wearing a blue face mask, or how Trump is doing badly in the elections and so forth. We've had a good 6-months-ish to bury bad news so far.

But, yes, it's shocking to lose someone so young so unexpectedly. And he really did seem like a nice guy too.

(I was not a regular viewer of Mythbusters, but I've caught many an episode incidentally and, as you might imagine, I thoroughly approve of a show all about conducting scientific experiments to debunk myths. So he was doing good work too, as well as it just being entertaining and he was so pleasant with it.)

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gilesgoat wrote:I am surprised nobody mentioned Grant Imahara death ...

Despite I wasn't a "super fan" of Mythbusters I've seen quite a few episodes, some were really cool, I always found the "trio" Grant, Bellecci, Byron even a bit more interesting than Jamie and Adam.

I found a bit shocking he died so suddenly and so young.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53401026

Anyway "with all the nerds on this forum" no mention of him ?

Eh .. life can be strange .. may he rest in peace :flower:
I only found out a couple of hours ago myself - been having a bit of a "news avoidance day" cos it was all getting me a bit too down.

Really sorry to hear this - by far my favourite of the build team on Mythbusters, and I quite enjoyed the White Rabbit Project shows he did with the other ex-Mythbusters as well.

Super-young, but aneurysms can hit anytime, I guess.

RIP... :flower:
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Also, Ennio Morricone.

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hairy_pete wrote:Also, Ennio Morricone.

*SNIP*

Sorry I can't think anything can beat this ending ...

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