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  • Paul Gans

    From Tiglath@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 6 08:12:23 2022
    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry, passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031

    Bon Voyage, Paul, old friend.

    I will always remember him, despite the fact I never met him in person.

    It's downright weird to know someone for so long and never meet face to face, but such is modern life.

    I hope Mr. Hines is doing well.

    All the best,

    Joseph

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  • From Ed Stasiak@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 6 13:11:20 2022
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031

    That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

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  • From Tiglath@21:1/5 to Ed Stasiak on Mon Jun 6 13:55:43 2022
    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031
    That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.

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  • From Peter Jason@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 7 17:09:11 2022
    On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031 >> That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.

    RIP
    I miss the old crowd.

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  • From Surreyman@21:1/5 to Peter Jason on Tue Jun 7 00:49:41 2022
    On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 8:09:17 AM UTC+1, Peter Jason wrote:
    On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031
    That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.
    RIP
    I miss the old crowd.

    RIP indeed. A lovely chap.
    His live report to us of 9/11 will be remembered.
    We used to joke that he was the only one older than me ..... ouch!
    Miss the old crowd, indeed!

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  • From Tiglath@21:1/5 to Surreyman on Tue Jun 7 09:27:36 2022
    On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 3:49:42 AM UTC-4, Surreyman wrote:
    On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 8:09:17 AM UTC+1, Peter Jason wrote:
    On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031
    That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.
    RIP
    I miss the old crowd.
    RIP indeed. A lovely chap.
    His live report to us of 9/11 will be remembered.
    We used to joke that he was the only one older than me ..... ouch!
    Miss the old crowd, indeed!

    It's hard to believe that shitapps like Facebook and Twitter have derailed Newsgroups. I don't use them and never will. And this place is dead, so RIP SHM too.

    Not that we lack hot OFF TOPIC subjects and issues to bang about, for lack of Medieval news.

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  • From Ed Stasiak@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 7 12:09:44 2022
    tiglath
    Surreyman

    Miss the old crowd, indeed!

    It's hard to believe that shitapps like Facebook and Twitter have derailed Newsgroups.
    I don't use them and never will. And this place is dead, so RIP SHM too.

    I don’t either, though I do use Reddit occasionally (mostly to discuss the Detroit Lions)
    but that place is a minefield like all corporate social media nowadays, where one has
    to be careful not to step on any toes or you’ll get the banhammer.

    https://i.postimg.cc/Wby95dk0/permabanned.gif
    https://ibb.co/xjdmXQX

    I keep hoping Usenet will enjoy a rebirth as people become sick of the ever growing
    constraints that come with corporate social media but so far it hasn’t happened,
    though Usenet does keep shuffling along.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to Peter Jason on Wed Jun 8 10:22:37 2022
    On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:09:11 +1000, Peter Jason <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031 >>> That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.

    RIP
    I miss the old crowd.

    +1 to that - Paul was always a class act though I had no idea he was
    so old. (Gives me an objective to reach - only my grandmother made
    that age though most of them made 80 in my family - exceptions being
    the chain smoker who died of lung cancer at 71, another alzheimers at
    79 and one who was run over by an RV at 71. Since I don't smoke I'm
    not worried about following my grandfather who used to boast he was
    born before the Wright brothers became famous and lived to see
    Armstrong on the moon)

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  • From William Hyde@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Jun 10 13:02:28 2022
    On Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 1:22:43 PM UTC-4, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:09:11 +1000, Peter Jason <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <[email protected]> >wrote:

    On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4:11:22 PM UTC-4, Ed Stasiak wrote:
    [email protected]

    Very sad...

    Paul Gans, Professor Emeritus in the New York University Department of Chemistry,
    passed away at age 88 on November 7, 2021.

    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/paul-gans-10436031
    That's a bummer, though 88 is a pretty good run.

    Indeed. It's great that he had a long, productive life. Should we be so lucky...

    I'm reading his old posts and strikes me the peaceful quality he had even in the middle of the almost constant flame wars this place used to have.

    Oh well... life marches on...

    Be well.

    RIP
    I miss the old crowd.
    +1 to that - Paul was always a class act though I had no idea he was
    so old.

    I first read something by Paul on talk.origins in the early 1990s. A complex posting on open and closed systems, entropy, Gibbs free energy, Helmholz free energy, it was written with such verve and energy that I was sure this was by a graduate student
    who had only recently learned this material and was still enthused with it. As Paul's first publications were in the early 1960s, I was off by thirty years.


    William Hyde

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