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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep
How old is he now??
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He'd have to be 91. I remember having lunch with him in 1988 , doing an interview for an Aussie astronomy mag that was never published. He was then 72 and had his then 10 year old son with him. I found him sharp as a tack , very fit and handsome. He could have had anything on the menu, but true to his reputation for liking simplicity he ordered a $4 plate of soup . The waitress looked a little startled when he asked for a glass of `intergalactic oxygen' to go with his soup ! .
When I showed him a picture of my own 8" Dobsonian Newt binoculars he told me how that as Neil Armstrong was walking on the Moon he was gazing on th elanding site with a 12" binocular which you stood between the tubes and looked in the same direction. A smaller pair the Vendantin monks threw into San Francisco Bay... He seemed a little bemused by all the fuss about his telescopes and was very keen to talk about his own brand of steady state cosmology for which he receives the most criticism
