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Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 (caltech.edu)
105 points by dangle1 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



If you read anything about this man, you come away feeling like this man was a giant.

His 1980's Voyager news conferences on are YouTube. They are astounding to watch, in an of themselves, and also to observe the skill in which Stone presents the findings.


I didn’t have the good fortune to personally know or work with him but I'll always remember his brisk pace when he walked around campus, even in his later years. I like to imagine he was always going to something very important and urgent.


I grew up watching him on tv whenever planetary missions did something great. So, I saw him a lot and admired him even more. A true giant has passed.


Truly RIP.

I stopped counting the number of times I have watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4t_5v_y_0 that features him prominently as the scientific director of the Voyager missions.

I can't remember well but I was either in my second or third year of college when I saw this documentary for the first time.

What a sad day!





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