{"id":24437,"date":"2022-03-18T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24437"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:38:20","slug":"obit-watch-march-18-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24437","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: March 18, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/original-1954-godzilla-star-akira-takarada-dead-at-87\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Takarada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was &#8220;Hideto Ogata&#8221; in the 1954 &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;. (He also appeared in the 1956 American version.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/original-1954-godzilla-star-akira-takarada-dead-at-87\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From there, Takarada went on to star in a slew of flicks featuring the King of the Monsters, including \u201cMothra vs Godzilla\u201d (1964), \u201cGodzilla vs Mothra\u201d (1992). The actor\u2019s last appearance in a Godzilla flick was in \u201cGodzilla: Final Wars\u201d (2004), although he filmed scenes for the 2014 US reboot \u201cGodzilla,\u201d which unfortunately didn\u2019t make the final cut. However, he is still featured in the movie\u2019s credits.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are saddened to hear of the passing of Akira Takarada.<br \/>May his memory continue to inspire the lives of many Godzilla fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wzBxq8Usi1\">pic.twitter.com\/wzBxq8Usi1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GODZILLA.OFFICIAL (@Godzilla_Toho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Godzilla_Toho\/status\/1504543021865619460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Eugene N. Parker<\/a>. I actually saw this reported a couple of days ago, but didn&#8217;t have a good source for it.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Parker predicted the existence of the solar wind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Dr. Parker published his prediction in 1958, almost no one believed him, including the reviewers of his paper and the editor of The Astrophysical Journal that published it.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe prevailing view among some people was that space was absolutely clean, nothing in it, total vacuum,\u201d Dr. Parker told The New York Times in 2018.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In response to the reviewers\u2019 negative comments, he appealed to the journal\u2019s editor, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who was also an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago. Dr. Parker argued that the reviewers had not pointed out any errors in his calculations, which described how the particles flowed from the sun like water spreading outward from a circular fountain.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe went where the equations led him,\u201d said Michael S. Turner, an astrophysicist at the Kavli Foundation in Los Angeles who was a longtime colleague of Dr. Parker\u2019s at Chicago. \u201cAnd they led him to some very interesting phenomena that people hadn\u2019t discovered.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Parker, he said, was happy when people pointed out a mistake in his calculations but not pleased when people accepted prevalent scientific assumptions without question.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe had little patience for \u2018It\u2019s well known that \u2026\u2019\u201d Dr. Turner said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe went where the equations led him,\u201d \u201cHe had little patience for \u2018It\u2019s well known that \u2026\u2019\u201d. That&#8217;s science, right there. (Also, mad props to the late Dr. Chandrasekhar.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Even though Dr. Chandrasekhar, a future Nobel laureate, disagreed with Dr. Parker\u2019s conclusions, he overruled the reviewers, and the paper was published.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four years later, Dr. Parker was vindicated when Mariner 2, a NASA spacecraft en route to Venus, observed energetic particles streaming through interplanetary space \u2014 exactly what he had predicted.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2017, NASA renamed &#8220;Solar Probe Plus&#8221; after Dr. Parker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA had never before named a spacecraft after a living person. But Dr. Zurbuchen, who had met Dr. Parker years earlier, said he did not have much trouble getting Robert Lightfoot, the acting administrator of NASA at the time, to approve the change in 2017. Dr. Zurbuchen then called Dr. Parker to ask if that would be all right with him. \u201cHe said, \u2018Absolutely. It will be my honor,\u2019\u201d Dr. Zurbuchen recalled.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Parker later said he was surprised that NASA had asked for his permission.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A few months afterward, Dr. Parker went to visit the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, where the spacecraft was built and tested. Dr. Fox, then project scientist for the mission, recalled saying, \u201cParker, meet Parker.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cParker was always understated,\u201d said Dr. Zurbuchen, who was watching the liftoff near Dr. Parker that morning. \u201cI only saw him cry twice. The first time, when he pulled up to the rocket and his name was on it, and after that launch, when it really got to him \u2014 the magnitude of what was happening.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Months later, Dr. Fox traveled to Chicago to share some of the early data from the Parker probe with Dr. Parker. \u201cHis eyes literally lit up,\u201d said Dr. Fox, who showed Dr. Parker photographs not of the sun itself but of dim particles to the side of the sun \u2014 the solar wind.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/science\/space\/eugene-n-parker-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Fox arranged to send him preprints of papers that mission scientists were writing about the findings. \u201cHe read them and he sent notes on them,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was just really, really excited about a mission that was really going to do all the science that he always wanted to do.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Parker was 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Takarada. He was &#8220;Hideto Ogata&#8221; in the 1954 &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;. (He also appeared in the 1956 American version.) From there, Takarada went on to star in a slew of flicks featuring the King of the Monsters, including \u201cMothra vs Godzilla\u201d (1964), \u201cGodzilla vs Mothra\u201d (1992). The actor\u2019s last appearance in a Godzilla flick was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24444,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions\/24444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}