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Elizabeth Holmes
Apr. 3rd, 2004 07:38 pmTriggerfish is dead. I lived with her for a year at university. She was a really wonderful person. We all loved her very much. She really enjoyed life. I'm glad she enjoyed the thirty years she got.
She got a PhD and was working at JPL. They liked her there, too. They've planted a tree for her and are probably going to name a star after her. Like, really name it after her, not that bullshit where you buy a fancy-looking certificate from some jerk who claims they named a star after you.
Her heart was always weak. She had a pacemaker installed when she was a kid, She had a little plastic card she carried to show airport security people in case the pacemaker set off the metal detector. I don't know why I thought of that. Her death was sudden and unexpected, though. She was doing OK, no problems for years, and then she died. Probably a palpitation which caused an arrhythmia; she probably felt no pain.
She had two papers published last year, and a bunch of conference presentations. She was working with the new infrared space telescope that just went up last year. She was observing all kinds of stuff -- the Zodiacal Cloud, a Plutino disk in the Kuiper Belt, and a bunch of other stuff, some searching for extrasolar planetary systems and asymmetries in planetary debris disks.
There are a lot of other people who could have died instead and the world would be a better place (with her alive and someone else dead). Me, for one. I hope we all try a little harder to make up for the fact that she isn't here to help us any more.
She got a PhD and was working at JPL. They liked her there, too. They've planted a tree for her and are probably going to name a star after her. Like, really name it after her, not that bullshit where you buy a fancy-looking certificate from some jerk who claims they named a star after you.
Her heart was always weak. She had a pacemaker installed when she was a kid, She had a little plastic card she carried to show airport security people in case the pacemaker set off the metal detector. I don't know why I thought of that. Her death was sudden and unexpected, though. She was doing OK, no problems for years, and then she died. Probably a palpitation which caused an arrhythmia; she probably felt no pain.
She had two papers published last year, and a bunch of conference presentations. She was working with the new infrared space telescope that just went up last year. She was observing all kinds of stuff -- the Zodiacal Cloud, a Plutino disk in the Kuiper Belt, and a bunch of other stuff, some searching for extrasolar planetary systems and asymmetries in planetary debris disks.
There are a lot of other people who could have died instead and the world would be a better place (with her alive and someone else dead). Me, for one. I hope we all try a little harder to make up for the fact that she isn't here to help us any more.
