The thing is this. He’s in his eighties! For most of his lifetime, the views he expressed were prevalent. It’s incumbent on us ‘youngsters’ to give the man a little latitude. It is OK to disagree with someone, without condeming them in public and engaging in political posturing. You don’t win hearts and minds by burning bridges. If you don’t agree with Sir Patrick, then go talk to him about it. You remember when people used to talk to each other? Back when Sir Patrick was in his 60s and there was no Internet?

Also, consider this. Is it just a teeny bit possible that he was being ironic? I seem to recall that The Sky At Night is produced/directed by a woman and the show regularly features female guests whom Sir Patrick treats with utmost repect and certainly as equals to the male guests he has on the show. Has no-one ever jokingly said anything slightly politically incorrect? I think some people take themselves far too seriously.

He fought in the Second World War for the RAF and whilst there his first and only known romance, his fiancée, died because the ambulance she was a nurse in got hit by a bomb dropped by a…(not sure what to use here…German or Nazi, it’s really down to you and your modern take on who we were at war with) pilot.

He’s recorded as saying “there was no one else for me… second best is no good for me…I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be.”

So since fighting for our freedoms to be of any religion, have equal rights, have the ability to protest and pretty much everything else we deem important in modern democracy cost him his only true love we burn him at the stake for being a touch sexist??

We’ll happily vindicate Nicolaus Copernicus upon reflection for stating the obvious but when someone we are stuck in the same society as states what is perfectly obvious to them we shoot them down.

I don’t agree that women are the cause of all evil but I’ll happily sit back and watch when all those calling for Patrick to be sanctioned cast their own prejudice observations in the future and the ‘youth’ of then berate them as you are him now.

We only get a short time in existence, no where near long enough for us to grow up and see things as they actually are. Use it wisely and for goodness sake – keep the gossip inside the hairdressers!

“Renowned astronomer Patrick Moore discovered over one hundred dome-like buildings. In fact, about one thousand such bases, dome-like structures of diameter around 700 feet, have been witnessed. ”

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/07/18/02474.html