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To heck with celeb deaths, how about STEM folks
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/12/31/2120248/lets-raise-a-glass-to-the-many-tech-pioneers-who-died-in-2016
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12-31-2016, 04:26 PM
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Banned but not out, yet..
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Amen to that.
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Did you get the memo?
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People who actually contributed something to our world, these are the sort that we should mourn.
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12-31-2016, 04:56 PM
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"Celebrities" get the most news coverage, but John Glen's memory was rightfully honored by placing the American flag at half-mast.
Agreed that society tends to put the wrong people on pedestals.
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12-31-2016, 05:09 PM
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Most can't or don't identify with STEM folks. The Kardashians on the other hand are emblematic of the cheap character people today love.
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Henry Heimlich
Victor Scheinman- inventor of assembly line robots
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01-01-2017, 04:27 AM
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Here's a guy that I used to work with back when I was doing CFD on our big computers here in Los Alamos. Never coasting - he was in every day to work with his post docs even into his 80's...
Many credit him with "inventing" computational fluid dynamics, especially when things get turbulent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_H._Harlow Review: Frank Harlow’s Adventures In Physics And Pueblo Pottery | Los Alamos Daily Post
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01-01-2017, 05:57 PM
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Igor
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