He asked the lecture hall an interesting question about the explorer mindset. It was during the era of the MarsOne media-fueled vapour hype. "Would you take a one-way trip to Mars?" And then started asking why, or why not (the consensus of the room was nearly unanimously "no"). And talked about explorers ancient and modern, and how risk was no longer tolerated. Very interesting fellow.

RIP.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, but for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not crying! You're crying!

[–] 5paceThunder@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Sad, rip

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago

aww dude...

I was hoping he'd still be around in politics.

He did some good as minister of transportation.

[–] FreezerBurnt@lemmy.squids.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Not even that old. Really sad.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Mass Effect recycled many names from science. I hadn’t realized Garneau was one of them until now. (Leviathan expansion, ME3).

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

First Canadian in space. I still remember when he went up.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.

It really hurts that I am very conscious of what the Musk Rat did to the phrase, but it is only what I can say.