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Bombardier in WW2, lost his fiancee due to a bomb hitting her ambulance ..

An 'Uncle' you'd always want to have around the dinner table..

Quite the old chap.. RIP

To say he was one of a kind .. maybe an understatement,, he was outspoken on many topics..

Sir Patrick attacked over ‘racist’ comments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1411100/Sir-Patrick-attacked-over-racist-comments.html

By Nicola Woolcock

12:01AM BST 24 Oct 2002

Sir Patrick Moore was accused of racism yesterday after claiming that Britain was being “swamped by parasites”.

The astronomer and television presenter made the comment while addressing a pensioners’ meeting organised by the charity, Age Concern.

He criticised the amount of Government and National Lottery money given to immigrants, compared with that spent on the elderly.

“We are being swamped by people who come here because we are a soft touch. I know people will say ‘racist, racist, racist’,” he said.

Asked to clarify his point outside the meeting in Winchester, Hants, the 79-year-old presenter of The Sky At Night said: “We are being swamped by parasites. Call me a racist but I would send them all back to where they came from.

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definitely had an attitude..

Patrick Moore: “I’m no European – the English are best”
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-05-01/patrick-moore-im-no-european—the-english-are-best

Paul Jones
12:01 AM, 01 May 2012

TV astronomer Patrick Moore has expressed some frank views on Germany, and Britain’s other European neighbours, in the latest issue of Radio Times magazine.

“I’m no European,” Moore, 89, told E Jane Dickson. “Why? Go to Europe and look around. The Germans tried to conquer us. The French betrayed us. The Belgians did very little and the Italians made us our ice cream.

“Just look at the world now and look at it when we had a bigger say in it. The English are best. Stand up for England!”

Although he will not discuss his role in the Second World War, the Sky at Night presenter is thought to have distinguished himself in both the military and in British Intelligence. And his wartime experiences - including the death of his fiancée in a bombing raid aged just 20 - have had a negative influence on his view of Germany.

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I read some of his books when I became interested in astronomy, when I was in grade school. I remember that he dismissed the idea of manned space flight, or maybe the idea that man would walk on the moon, as something that would not happen for a long time to come, just a few years before those things did happen.

As I recall, he disliked the adjectives being used for Venus (Venusian, Venerian) and wanted people to use "Cytherean" instead ("Cytherea" being an ancient label for Aphrodite/Venus). That never caught on.

RIP.