Ray Bradbury died at 91....

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07 Dec 2012, 10:40 pm

Ray Bradbury one of the monumentally best science fiction authors is no longer with us.

His passing is like the disappearance of the Great Pyramid which has Always Been There.

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07 Dec 2012, 10:53 pm

I agree his death is a great loss - but didn't this happen over the summer some time?

ETA: A quick check says the fifth of June. It was all over the news at the time. I remember it because I was the first one to post the news on Forward Motion, and it was all I could do to type coherently. Such a great writer...

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07 Dec 2012, 11:02 pm

theWanderer wrote:

You are right. He died June 6 of this year.

I just heard about it, so I assumed it was recent.

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07 Dec 2012, 11:16 pm

How did I manage to miss that? He is the first sci fi writer I became enamored with in middle school, when I first read The Martian Chronicles (the source of my username for those who don't know). What a fantastic writer and a tragic loss.

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07 Dec 2012, 11:44 pm

I missed hearing about that also.Bummer.I'll have to dust off a book and read a story.

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08 Dec 2012, 7:44 am

It is a pity he didn't live long enough to see NASA's discovery of ... sand on Mars.

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08 Dec 2012, 8:46 am

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Ray Bradbury died at 91....

i can not determine the significance of the stated fact that he was 91 when he died.
is it some sort of esoteric coincidence or something?
i doubt he would have been able to produce any significant scripts at (or beyond) that age anyway, so the loss is merely token i guess.

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08 Dec 2012, 8:53 am

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Ray Bradbury died at 91....

Ray had a good run. He was not cut down in the flower of his youth.

I wouldn't mind living to 91 in good health. If I did I might get to see great grand children which is one of my ambitions.

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08 Dec 2012, 9:12 am

ruveyn wrote:

b9 wrote:

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Ray Bradbury died at 91....

Ray had a good run.

was he also an athlete? i do not know much about him.

ruveyn wrote:

He was not cut down in the flower of his youth.

i am not sure what that means i am sorry.

ruveyn wrote:

I wouldn't mind living to 91 in good health.

why is the number "91" important? why not 92 or 93 or any other number?

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If I did I might get to see great grand children which is one of my ambitions.

well i hope that you do get to witness your great grand children because it must be fascinating to see the evolution of your genes out to the 3rd generation.

but it still does not explain why 91 is an important enough number to be included in the title of the thread.

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08 Dec 2012, 9:13 am

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but it still does not explain why 91 is an important enough number to be included in the title of the thread.

It is a number significantly beyond the current life expectancy. Ray beat it by about 12 years.

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08 Dec 2012, 9:17 am

ruveyn wrote:

b9 wrote:

but it still does not explain why 91 is an important enough number to be included in the title of the thread.

It is a number significantly beyond the current life expectancy.

so it was an arbitrary number then. i am not surprised as i could not find any logical reason why "91" was used as a benchmark.

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08 Dec 2012, 10:25 am

b9 wrote:

i doubt he would have been able to produce any significant scripts at (or beyond) that age anyway, so the loss is merely token i guess.

Actually, his mind still worked fine. The loss was much more than token. :cry:

He was unique as a writer, and every article, every short story he wrote was worth reading. Obviously, he did have to die some time, but I wish he'd exceeded the average life expectancy by a whole lot more then 12 years.

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08 Dec 2012, 10:46 am

theWanderer wrote:

b9 wrote:

i doubt he would have been able to produce any significant scripts at (or beyond) that age anyway, so the loss is merely token i guess.

Actually, his mind still worked fine. The loss was much more than token. :cry:

i accede to your revelation that he was still sharp of mind into his geriatric years, and i will acquiesce to your salutary assertions, but i have to envisage that his opinions will be superseded soon. nothing can remain static forever. his brain has gone and the world rolls on without him now.

no violations of the laws of physics have been observed that are ascribable to his cessation of existence.

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09 Dec 2012, 2:23 am

Have a glass of dandelion wine for us, Ray. RIP.

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09 Dec 2012, 10:30 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Ray Bradbury one of the monumentally best science fiction authors is no longer with us.

His passing is like the disappearance of the Great Pyramid which has Always Been There.

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