Talk:Patrick Moore

Allegedly: "In his lifetime Sir Patrick Moore met Orville Wright, Yuri Gargarin and Neil Armstrong. From Kitty Hawk to the Moon in three handshakes." Scream!! (talk) 13:34, 9 December 2012 (UTC)4

RIP

I just played this in his memory. Balaam (talk) 20:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

"He also once predicted, wrongly, the arrival of humans on the Moon in 1980."

When did he predict this? Did he say, after the final Apollo mission, that we'd be back on the Moon by 1980? Or did he, pre-1969, predict that we'd be on the Moon by 1980? The sentence is vague, and useless as it stands. Sophie^Wilder 18:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

In early sixties, he estimated man would arrive on the Moon in 1980. --Albannach (talk) 18:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

In that case, he wasn't "wrong", just out by a few years. Sophie^Wilder 19:05, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

It seemed a bad prediction when I read it, in the eighties... but thinking about it from the standpoint of 2013, eleven years isn't that far out in the scale of things. And I think his assumption that we'd be back in his lifetime was completely reasonable. -Albannach (talk) 19:20, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh definitely. It's terrible that we never went back. We could be on Mars by now (sobs into cheap gin) Sophie^Wilder 19:30, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Star Trek going PC

Yeah, that show wasn't the same after Roddenberry took over, making sure there was always a Rusky and a black woman on the bridge. </sarcasm>

Seriously, though, Trek has always been PC and left-wing. If you didn't notice it until Janeway you just suck at paying attention, dude. Wehpudicabok [話] [変] [留] 21:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)