[qrybam]

How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him.

Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.

[matwood]

> all while being 38,000 feet in the air

I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.

[Razengan]

And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)

[selectodude]

Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.

[andrewflnr]

To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)

[tim333]

Also we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.

[ChickenNugger]

At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.

[FrontierPsych]

I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.

[TheCoreh]

A dense ball of _everything_.

[Aperocky]

That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.

[simonebrunozzi]

> I'm sitting next to someone who knew him

Is this person someone who is (was) traveling with you, and therefore you knew that he/she knew Gordon Moore, or did you just got to know this person by random chance?

Given he/she knew him, can you ask to share some memories, and post it here?

RIP.

[qrybam]

Random chance

[NiloCK]

Holy smokes!

[iamsanteri]

Hacker Newsing above the clouds? What a world we live in…

[kirubakaran]

Cloud computing!