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I know this has gone around already, but
Aug. 22nd, 2010 10:59 amJack Horkheimer is dead. (Profile from astronomy.com (pdf), stories here, here, and here.) His last recorded show is for labour day weekend/August 30 to September 5, 2010.
He was an enthusiastic cheesemonster, cause of one of the best Onion articles ever, and the only science popuarliser who got me to participate in a mass data collection event, of a lunar eclipse in the 1990s. (I still have my notes.) KBTC Doctor Who airings will never be the same without him.
Apparently the show will continue, at least in the short term, hosted by Chris Trigg, also of the Miami Science Museum. I hope they find someone to keep it going.
I wanted to close this with "keep looking up" in some way, and then I found Horky's very own self-written epitaph, so I figure that'll do:
He was an enthusiastic cheesemonster, cause of one of the best Onion articles ever, and the only science popuarliser who got me to participate in a mass data collection event, of a lunar eclipse in the 1990s. (I still have my notes.) KBTC Doctor Who airings will never be the same without him.
Apparently the show will continue, at least in the short term, hosted by Chris Trigg, also of the Miami Science Museum. I hope they find someone to keep it going.
I wanted to close this with "keep looking up" in some way, and then I found Horky's very own self-written epitaph, so I figure that'll do:
"Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition,
I can do little else in my present position."
-- Jack Horkheimer (b. June 11, 1938, d. August 20, 2010; RIP)
