I felt like my dad died again when I heard. he was the king of nerd nation because we never had a champion before him as Spock. No one ever celebrated the mind the way he did and we had someone who spoke for us, those who were outside the easy life of the regular world. He reached everyone because he was alien too.
He believed in things before they were trendy, the rights of man and woman and did so with courage, science was to be sought after and necessary to our greater needs and good and he was the unwitting mentor of half of the scientists alive in the world today. I loved him. I remember seeing the show that very first broadcast and I wish I could tell you how big the impact was among nerd-dom the next day. It was like an epiphany or religious experience the impact, this little show. I remember it like yesterday it was so big.
He is loved. I cried when I heard and I still want to. What you see from the world back to him is the effort of all of us to honor him in some way, to show our love. IDIC, Leonard Nimoy. You are loved, from here to there and back again. LLAP.
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