RIP Leonard Nimoy
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sparks_E39 said:
Higgs boson said:
nyxster said:
I have and always will be your friend.
That made me cry as a kid.
Sad day
I'm not ashamed to say that it made me cry as an adult!That made me cry as a kid.
Sad day
The Nur said:
MartG said:
Edit: And George Takei, of course. http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/02/27/wolf-b...
Edited by dxg on Saturday 28th February 09:10
Absolutely gutted to hear this. Spock was one of my childhood heroes and Star Trek was, and always will be my favourite franchise. I grew up in the 60s watching the original series and it transformed television sci-fi. I loved it with a passion that has never abated. In November 1969 when I was 9 years old my school had its play night. I can't recall exactly what my class was meant to be performing but I was meant to be in it, my mum had made my costume and both parents were there to see me. We had one colour tv in the school at a time when such things were rare and expensive and somehow it had been allocated to my class while we all waited our turn to appear on stage. The teacher switched it on for us and it was the start of the Star Trek episode Arena with Captain Kirk battling the Gorn and eventually defeating it by making gunpowder.
I sat watching it so totally enthralled I never heard the teacher call when our time was up. I never saw or heard 30 other kids file out of the classroom past me to go on stage. I had no idea I was even alone in the room until it finished. Then I looked up and no one else was there.
My parents spent the evening trying to spot me on stage and wondering where the hell I was. Spock's implacable logic and adherence to strict scientific principles, facts and evidence, influenced much of my formative years. I rejected the religiosity that Sunday School and RE lessons tried to inflict on me because even at that early age I saw no logic in the premise of gods or any evidence for their existence.
When in doubt I would ask myself "What would Spock do?". Follow the evidence, don't believe in that for which there is no evidence and don't assume until sufficient data is available.
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
I sat watching it so totally enthralled I never heard the teacher call when our time was up. I never saw or heard 30 other kids file out of the classroom past me to go on stage. I had no idea I was even alone in the room until it finished. Then I looked up and no one else was there.
My parents spent the evening trying to spot me on stage and wondering where the hell I was. Spock's implacable logic and adherence to strict scientific principles, facts and evidence, influenced much of my formative years. I rejected the religiosity that Sunday School and RE lessons tried to inflict on me because even at that early age I saw no logic in the premise of gods or any evidence for their existence.
When in doubt I would ask myself "What would Spock do?". Follow the evidence, don't believe in that for which there is no evidence and don't assume until sufficient data is available.
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
dxg said:
The Nur said:
MartG said:
Edit: And George Takei, of course. http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/02/27/wolf-b...
Edited by dxg on Saturday 28th February 09:10
Pumaracing said:
Absolutely gutted to hear this. Spock was one of my childhood heroes and Star Trek was, and always will be my favourite franchise. I grew up in the 60s watching the original series and it transformed television sci-fi. I loved it with a passion that has never abated. In November 1969 when I was 9 years old my school had its play night. I can't recall exactly what my class was meant to be performing but I was meant to be in it, my mum had made my costume and both parents were there to see me. We had one colour tv in the school at a time when such things were rare and expensive and somehow it had been allocated to my class while we all waited our turn to appear on stage. The teacher switched it on for us and it was the start of the Star Trek episode Arena with Captain Kirk battling the Gorn and eventually defeating it by making gunpowder.
I sat watching it so totally enthralled I never heard the teacher call when our time was up. I never saw or heard 30 other kids file out of the classroom past me to go on stage. I had no idea I was even alone in the room until it finished. Then I looked up and no one else was there.
My parents spent the evening trying to spot me on stage and wondering where the hell I was. Spock's implacable logic and adherence to strict scientific principles, facts and evidence, influenced much of my formative years. I rejected the religiosity that Sunday School and RE lessons tried to inflict on me because even at that early age I saw no logic in the premise of gods or any evidence for their existence.
When in doubt I would ask myself "What would Spock do?". Follow the evidence, don't believe in that for which there is no evidence and don't assume until sufficient data is available.
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
Spock wasn't real, you know.I sat watching it so totally enthralled I never heard the teacher call when our time was up. I never saw or heard 30 other kids file out of the classroom past me to go on stage. I had no idea I was even alone in the room until it finished. Then I looked up and no one else was there.
My parents spent the evening trying to spot me on stage and wondering where the hell I was. Spock's implacable logic and adherence to strict scientific principles, facts and evidence, influenced much of my formative years. I rejected the religiosity that Sunday School and RE lessons tried to inflict on me because even at that early age I saw no logic in the premise of gods or any evidence for their existence.
When in doubt I would ask myself "What would Spock do?". Follow the evidence, don't believe in that for which there is no evidence and don't assume until sufficient data is available.
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
And I thought that the Vulcans did have a form of religion.
Leonard Nimoy's rather funny Audi advert for the S7. Great shame he's gone.
http://youtu.be/WPkByAkAdZs
http://youtu.be/WPkByAkAdZs
brenflys777 said:
Leonard Nimoy's rather funny Audi advert for the S7. Great shame he's gone.
http://youtu.be/WPkByAkAdZs
I like that.http://youtu.be/WPkByAkAdZs
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