Sir Patrick Moore In 'Civvies' :D

[Sukerkin]

It was a pleasure to see this little snippet of Sir Patrick not in his 'regulation' black suit but also a sadness to see that the arrow of time has carried him very close to the point where he will not be with us anymore .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12580474

I've watched this man communicating the wonders of space to us for nearly four decades - he was solely responsible for me lying out on the back lawn with a borrowed pair of binoculars, a star chart and the red light off the back of my bike trying to identify those fascinating points of light.

Other than Carl Sagan, another of the great communicators of science, do our cousins across the Atlantic have someone fulfilling the same role?

 

[yorkshirelad]

Sir Patrick looks the same as he did twenty five years ago, when I used to watch the programme. His speech is a little slurred. I wonder if he's had some kind of stroke.

 

[Sukerkin]

I was thinking the same myself, aye.