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The Passing of the Lonliest Man

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3 years 5 months ago - 3 years 5 months ago #110199 by lunartic_old
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The death has been announced of Michael Collins, dubbed the lonliest man.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56921562

Farewell star voyager.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Rich Cook
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3 years 5 months ago #110200 by michael_murphy
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I had never realised that his grandfather came from Dunmanway in West Cork where my grandfather is from.

My tiny connection to the Apollo programme.

Michael.
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3 years 5 months ago #110203 by lunartic_old
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It's a small world after all, Michael.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

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3 years 5 months ago - 3 years 5 months ago #110204 by flt158
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Michael Collins also had a great sense of humour, and had, as far as I can remember, was an admirer of classical music. 

I am so glad I successfully observed the tiny lunar crater which is named after him. 
It has a diameter of mere 2.4 kilometres. 

Clear skies from Aubrey. 
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3 years 5 months ago #110205 by Fermidox
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From the Examiner: 'His grandfather, Jeremiah Bernard Collins, emigrated from Dunmanway in Co Cork in the early 1860s to Cincinnati, Ohio in the US.'
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