Tags for This Article:

Death (875) Science (480) Suicide (226) Computers (207) Death Civilians (202) Scientists (190) Software (110) Britain (74)


Populum
Tag Cloud
Control Panel

Fine tune your search to access content

Articles
Diaries Products
Events All
All time
Last 6 mos
Last month
Last week
Last 24 hrs
From:
Month  Day   Year

To:
Month  Day   Year
Alphabet
Popularity
Count ON
Count OFF
This Level
Sub-levels

 

 

 

Tag(s): ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Add to My Group
August 11, 2008 at 16:05:21

View Ratings | Rate It

Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Growup To Be Techies

by Robert Arend     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

www.opednews.com

 

Tell A Friend

 

The 80s were a terrible decade for the technological wizards of Great Britain. Before I list chronologically the most unfortunate reasons why so many of them are no longer living, let me acknowledge my principle source Mark J. Harper at this link: 

 

http://www.rense.com/general66/deadmicro.htm

 which Mr. Harper sourced from a list compiled by Raymond A. Robinson in 'The Alien Intent' (A Dire Warning). I surmise by the title of Mr. Robinson’s original compilation that he suspected some other-worldly assassins of doing these beastly things to these brilliant scientists. We can reject that conclusion, but the dead were real and mostly died horribly. Professor Keith Bowden  was a computer programmer and scientist at Essex University. He teched on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.RIP:  March 1982 when he lost control of his car and plunged to his death onto an abandoned railway line. He was 49. 

Rodger Hill worked for Marconi as a radar designer.

RIP:  March 1985 when he killed himself with a shotgun at his home. He was 49.

 

Jonathan Wash worked at GEC and British Telecom in digital communications.

RIP:  November 1985 when he fell from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa.  He was 29.

 

Vimal Dajibhai worked for Marconi as a computer software engineer and tested computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes.

RIP:  August 1986 when he fell 240 feet from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. He was 24.

 

Arshad Sharif worked on systems for satellite detection of submarines. He had also worked at British Aerospace on guided weapons technology.

RIP:  October 1986, in Bristol,  when he tied one end of a rope to a tree, the other around his neck, jammed down the accelerator of his car and drove off. He was 26.

 

Richard Pugh for the British Ministery of Defense as a computer consultant and expert in digital communications expert.

RIP:  January 1987 from an accident in his home, his feet bound and a plastic bag over his head. The rope tied around his body was wrapped around his neck four times. He was 37.

 

Dr. John Brittan was a scientist once employed in top secret work for the Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, then moved to the research department of the British Ministery of Defense

RIP:  January 1987 in his garage of carbon monoxide. He was 52.

 

David Skeels was an engineer with Marconi.

RIP:  February 1987 in his car, a hose connected to the exhaust. He was 43.

 1  |  2  |  3

 

Recently retired. President of a AFSCME local from 1997-2007. More a commenter to a blog article than article writer. Really enjoy well-written analysis of our times.

 

Bookmark this page: (what's this?)

NETSCAPE      DIGG THIS      Add This Page to Mr Wong!           NEWSVINE      DEl.ICIO.US      Looksmart Furl      My Web      Tag!RawSugar      Blink List     (More...)
Comments: Expand   Shrink   Hide  
No comments

 

Blog Ads

 

 

 

 

Most Popular Articles
in the Last 2 Days
(by Recommend Emails)

Breaking The Real "Last Taboo" - The Things No One Dares To Say by Frank Schaeffer

John S. Greenway by AJ Buttacavoli

Cancer Full Moon January 10-11 2009 by Cathy Lynn Pagano

Who is Black America's Moral Emissary to the World? by Glen Ford

Unlawful Assembly by David Swanson

Amnesty vs. AIPAC: Senate to Consider AIPAC Resolution Endorsing War in Gaza by Robert Naiman

Boot Bush on 19th by David Swanson

Will There Be a Recovery? by Paul Craig Roberts

More about sociopaths in American politics by Gene Messick

Ratings Rule in Obama's "Virtual" Cabinet by Michael Collins

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

 

 


Copyright © OpEdNews, 2002-2009