RIP

[tServo]

Kevin Rafferty was a filmmaker who made the "mockumentary" "The Atomic Cafe" .
It was a darkly humorous movie in the vein of "Doctor Strangelove" that was composed of archival news, newsreels, and propaganda concerning atomic warfare such as advice to "Duck and Cover" if you see an atomic bomb explode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rafferty

The film is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF0r1OdDIME


An example of the kind of propaganda films see the 10 minute classic "The House in the Middle" which shows 3 tiny houses which get blasted by one of the tests in the desert Southwest. Since the house in the middle is properly maintained, it survives the atomic blast. So, keep your house in order to survive nuclear war !

It is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJcwaUWNZg

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Incumbent MSI CEO Charles Chiang has died.

Micro-Star International (MSI) president and CEO Charles Chiang died at the age of 56 following a fall from the seventh floor of the firm's headquarters in New Taipei on July 7.

The death is being investigated by police.

MSI said in a statement all company staff is deeply saddened by the death and it has kicked off emergency actions to maintain normal operations at all departments.

Having served at MSI for over 20 years, Chiang took the CEO post in January 2019 after leading the company's successful charge into the motherboards and graphic cards segment as head of Desktop Computing. The company managed to maintain strong profitability for gaming motherboards and graphic cards in 2019.

Quoted link:
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20200708PD205.html

Link with more background on Mr. Chiang:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-CE....480767.0.html

Link (in Traditional Chinese):
https://www.ettoday.net/news/20200707/1754917.htm

[axn]

Kelly Preston

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by axn

Kelly Preston

Who is that? What did they do in life?

[pinhodecarlos]

Us Europeans cannot open your link...

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by ATH

Freeman Dyson, Richard Guy, John Conway and now Ron Graham within just 4.5 months, so many great people leaving all at once.

[rogue]

Grant Imahara, from Mythbusters.

[axn]

Originally Posted by rogue

Grant Imahara, from Mythbusters.

FUUUUUU...

[richs]

Originally Posted by rogue

Grant Imahara, from Mythbusters.

So sad.... I worked with him on a number of maritime-related Mythbusters episodes.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by rogue

Grant Imahara, from Mythbusters.

Originally Posted by richs

So sad.... I worked with him on a number of maritime-related Mythbusters episodes.

An IRL friend of mine has worked with him and others of the staff on other shows for 2 different cable channels. He had nothing but nice things to say about him.

[richs]

One episode I did with Grant shooting cheese through a sail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sDD4kOB_6Q