Patrick Moore

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Sir Patrick at home.
Not to be confused with Patrick Moore, founder-turned-critic of Greenpeace.

Sir Patrick Moore is a UK based astronomer and hendecasyllabic science populariser, perhaps best known for being the mainstay of the TV series The Sky At Night (on which his cat sometimes appears). He has a preference for using imperial measurements for everyday use, and, before illness made it too difficult to do so, a typewriter rather than a computer. He is also a mean xylophone player.[1]

In the late 70s he was a member of a minor political party, one of whose policies was opposition to immigration.[2] Going even further back, he once wrote a book under the pseudonym Cedric Allingham, claiming to have had a conversation with some Martians. The book turned out to be a hoax; Moore is a passionate opponent of Ufologists, and his book was an attempt to parody their most well-known source material - the works of George Adamski, and his curious ilk.[3] He also devoted one episode of his programme to an epic takedown of the Moon landing hoax.[4] Despite this trouncing of the gullible, he is no unwavering supporter of scientific consensus, being one of the last holdouts for the view that the moon has active volcanoes - very much a minority view in astronomical circles.

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  1. Have I got xylophones for you!
  2. Yes, this is the best info I could find
  3. It's only Wikipedia but I like it
  4. The programme in question
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