Heros

In reverse chronological order of when I knew about them

Who	Anecdote	Contact	Further Reading


Tsutomu Shimomura	Take Down so no more		'Take Down' An essential read for any would be hacker!
Socrates	He taught the children that they should question everything to know everything, and because of it he lost the respect of the people. He was tried and convicted of going against the gods and of undermining the youth of Athens. For this he was put to death. Some of the people thought that this punishment was unjust.		'Giants of Philosphy' - an excellent audio book, beats listening to boring radio stations
Jacques Cousteau	The Silent World	We had a tribute dive aboard the Taka
SubComandante Marcos	Upholding the rights of the Indiginous, Chiapas State, Mexico 1997 Massacre	Marcos was probably somewhere in the jungle when we trecked through Chiapas
Scott McNeally	Dump PC's and plump for Internet
John F Kennedy	We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.	I visited the Texas school book repository in Dallas from where it is claimed JFK was shot	'Dark Side of Camelot' titilating account of FJK's private side
Neil Armstrong	One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind Good Luck Mr Gorsky	I was in the same room as Neil when he was invited to speak at a technology brief	'Moon Shot' - A good history of the Apollo missions
Jean-Luc Pickard	Engage!
Carl Sagan	Who Speaks for the Earth?	Member of Planetary Society with Carl. Contact the movie dedicated to Carl. Cosmos program	I am reading: 'Demon Haunted World' 'Billions and Billions'
The Terminator	I'll be back	I was a day late to see Arnolds hand print pressed in concrete in the sidewalk in Beverly Hills, California
James T Kirk	Warp factor 9, Scotty.	I got an autograph from the real life Sulu in Houston
Bruce Lee	WWwwhhaaaaaaaaaaa!
Superman	Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locamotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, look, up in the sky, its a bird, its a plane, no its SUPERMAN!
Blake	Orac? Zen? Federation persuit ships?		A good book
Elvis Presley	Thank you very much...	I swore Elvis was on the same flight to Brisbane one day.
Albert Einstien	imagination is more important than knowledge E = mc2
Galileo Galilei	These revolutionary teachings (that the sun is stationary and the earth moves) were regarded by many as wicked contradictions of the teaching of the Bible. The clergy feared that they would turn men away from religion. Here, Galileo was imprisoned and forced to swear that his teachings were false.
Harry Houdini	escapologist
Dr Who	Darleks? Cybermen? K9?
Brains	Thunderbirds are Go!
Professor Julias Sumner Miller	Why is it so?	My dad made me watch his physics shows when I was a lad and someone I know met him once...
Kimba	Kimba the White Lion
Gigantor	Bigger than big, stronger than strong, G-I-G-A-N-T-O-R!	52 episodes were made and it was released in Japan between 1963 - 1965 and the series was shown on Melbourne TV in January 1968 through Translux, on channel 0 at 5pm. It was described by the tv week as "Animated science fiction series about the world's mightiest robot, and 12 year old Jimmy Sparks who controls the jet propelled giant." After the success of Astroboy on the international market, Gigantor became the most popular Japanese export during this time. The idea was simple - a boy named Jimmy Sparks fights crime around the world with the help of a huge remote controlled robot. Whoever has the remote control, controls Gigantor. Interestingly enough, the voice of Kimba the white lion was the same as Jimmy sparks! I was about 2 years old.