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I never saw him race (well, so far as I'm aware) but his tenacity after the Lauda Air Crash probably saved a lot of lives. Even if he'd done nothing else that would be worthy of the highest praise.

Shame Boeing didn't seem to learn much from it though.

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Every once in a while there's a perfect match of character and actor, and Paul Darrow and Kerr Avon were one such match. Disproportionately influential in scifi, and still extremely quotable.

I'll have to go back to my original avatar in memoriam, if I can find it.

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2 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

Ross Perot.

Yeah I just saw that. I didn't know he was still with us

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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I also thought he'd already passed away until I saw him on a birthday list a few weeks back (he turned 89 on June 27).  RIP.

I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

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Huh, also learned Rachid Taha died last September

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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RIP to Rip. Rip Torn passed away 

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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This time an E-celebrity (whatever that means):

StarCraft Pro, E-sports Caster, Twitch Streamer and all around cool guy Geoff "INcontroL" Robinson passed away after a sudden illness at 33 years of age. RIP.

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David Hedison.

The Fly, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV), The Lost World, Live and Let Die, License to Kill and guest appearances on television for three decades.

I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

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Rutger Hauer

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/

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RIP

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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