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Grant Imahara Has Died

1963 points by jmcgough 6y ago

EricE 6y ago
I met him at filming of one of the early seasons (maybe first?) in Vegas - he was warm and inviting even then before he became a household name. Why do the good people always seem to die young yet assholes live forever? Ugh. We are pretty much the same age so this also hits doubly close to home for me. Prayers for his friends and family.
donatj 6y ago
Brain aneurism. The thought has always kept me up at night, and this only serves to make the fear worse. Poor guy, I really looked up to him. This really puts a damper on my mood which had been on an upswing recently
- oski 6y ago
  Anyone know if this could have been caused by Covid-19? There have been reports of strokes due to it.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 6y ago
  Yeah it seems like an area that needs massively more research, the information available on what causes these seems filled with gaps.
  - TaupeRanger 6y ago
    Compared to heart disease and cancer, aneurysms are a drop in the bucket. Not that they should be ignored, but if you're choosing where to put funding it's not going to be high on the list.
emerged 6y ago
Is there effective screening for aneurism potential? It runs the male side of my family and I'm approaching due time.
- popped 6y ago
  Vascular diseases like aneurism are reduced significantly on a plant based diet. Hope you get to read this before it gets downvoted to oblivion.
  - haecceity 6y ago
    Why down vote this? People don't like vegetables?
    - hthtegr 6y ago
      It's threatening to their model of how health works. I suspect it's not just a down vote, it's a passionate button smashing one. I was very pro meat and was researching counter arguments to my vegan mother in law when I, sadly, found out the science is about as contested as whether or not aliens have visited earth. I.e. a lot in the general populous but basically not at all in the bonefide nutritional science community.
    - nikolay 6y ago
      Maybe because it's not plant-based, but vegan. We all eat plants - the difference is some don't eat anything else. There are certain supplements, which can help with it [0], specifically: * Alpha-lipoic acid * Calcium * Folic Acid (actually, Folate), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Betaine * Magnesium * Omega-3 Fatty Acids * Potassium * Vitamin C * Vitamin E * Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) * Selenium * Bilberry * Garlic * Ginkgo * Ginseng * Turmeric [0]: http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productid=107&pid=33&gid=000159 http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productid=107&...
    - hthtegr 6y ago
      Downvoting a simple question, really? Shows the magnitude of emotional response people who are insecure about the science of their food choices elicit when threatened.
  - dang 6y ago
    Please don't do this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mmastrac 6y ago
Fuck. Grant has always been a shining example of engineering spirit. I have looked up to him for a long time.
- netmare 6y ago
  I remember when they were testing the aerodynamics of something in Mythbusters and needed a quick way to create laminar flow. Grant's solution was to cut both ends of a pack of drinking straws and put it inline with the airflow. Such an elegantly brilliant idea.
dom2 6y ago
As a younger person who hasn't seen many of the celebrities I grew up with pass away, this is probably one of the first celebrity deaths that really affected me. I grew up watching Grant and the whole MythBusters crew. The show was hugely influential and definitely guided me towards an interest in science and engineering. Whenever I think about the science of the MythBusters, I always bring up this xkcd comic.[1] I think science tends to have an ivory tower issue, and those who don't get the resources growing up to be included in standard academic science may feel left out. People like Grant and shows like the MythBusters made the viewers feel included, and instead of just talking down to the viewer about a bunch of facts, the show included them into the process of discovery. I think that's really cool and important. [1] https://xkcd.com/397/ https://xkcd.com/397/
wyxuan 6y ago
Damn. I watched pretty much every episode of mythbusters, so this one hits hard.
fermentation 6y ago
This is such awful news. I looked up to him growing up
godzillabrennus 6y ago
So sad! He was amazing on MB.
TeaDrunk 6y ago
Grant was why I decided to go into STEM. :(
d33lio 6y ago
Wow, this cuts really deep. This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money. Even at 26 I still don't have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn't belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant, since he was one of my childhood "heroes" who never lost his luster or genuine character.
- mseepgood 6y ago
  > This makes me want to take more risk in life Depends on what type of risk. Some risks make you die earlier.
  - wmichelin 6y ago
    Guess they'd better sit inside all the time then, can't risk dying. They clearly meant that they wanted to live life more fully. Thank you for pointing out that people can die on a post about a person dying.
- jeffrallen 6y ago
  > I still don't have a great way to digest loss I'm about double your age and don't either. And I would be surprised if someone double my age claimed to. Live every day like it could be your last. Don't hold grudges, and tell people you love them. That's the best we can do. And it is apparently what Grant did, as his colleagues all have fond memories of him. RIP, Grant. You were cool.
  - nonbirithm 6y ago
    > Live every day like it could be your last. I've apparently been doing this, and you know? I'm thinking it's not going to work out. If I followed those words to the letter, literally believing that I was going to die of a heart attack at any moment, I would go insane. Maybe I am going insane, then. There are a lot of things we take for granted. Sure. I'm incredibly grateful to have both my hands, because if I lost even one of them then I would be severely impacted in my work. I could end up having to take a pay cut or lose my job outright. And I might never be able to draw at the level I could accomplish by still having hands. But I believe there's a reason we take these things for granted, with the side effect in a lot of people of never understanding their importance until it's too late. We do so because if we didn't take anything for granted, we would spend all of the time thinking about what would happen if we suddenly lost body part X or Y, and become constantly aware of every single tendon and muscle in our body and how they were still functional as opposed to dead, and never get anything done. Or at least greatly reduce our mental capacity to think about the important things we want to accomplish with those limbs instead of spending it on fruitless worry. So I have to both understand that yes, it would be horrible if I lost my hands or ability to walk or my sight or my hearing or my life, and then I have to put it out of my mind and do what I want to do while there's still time instead of worrying about it every single day. And even thinking like that becomes counterproductive. I'm 24 and have had this bizzarre chest pain. I went to the doctor and the ER several times for it. Dozens of times. Nothing came of it. Not even a diagnosis of pleurisy, or a diagnosis of anything at all. It was just unresolved and I have to assume it's something in the realm of anxiety or hypochondria. And it still hurts in the most inconvenient moments and is a constant hovering reminder of my own mortality. So now it's 3 in the morning and I need to write this thing. I know I'm only killing myself by failing to fall asleep at 3 in the morning but I don't know if I'm going to be alive tomorrow and I need to get this out there. Need someone to know that before I died that yes, I had thought enough to think of this thing, this concept that nobody else I've ever met has thought of, that nobody else will ever think and if I'm going to die tomorrow there will never be anyone else that will think of it again. So I need to do this, to write this down and move my still functioning fingers and joints over the keys to just get it out, need to finish this before I die because I don't take my own impending death for granted and I was smart enough to realize that fact, so use it. And oh, there's that other thing, that programming project I've spent years on committing to master alone and intend to spend several more years on. If I die that project will never be finished because nobody else cares enough. Sure, someone else realizing I died somehow and telling the community that I intended to finish it but never could because instead I happened to die, out of my control, could motivate someone else to take up the flag. Or not, and as a result the planet overheats 100 years from now without that one thing I wanted to accomplish with my life ever becoming reality. What could possibly be worse for the psyche of human accomplishment, of redefining the status quo, when you're trapped in this box of failing hearts and endless anxiety and just couldn't do it so that's just the end of it all? That's the end of the dream? What else is there to lose? No. Not going to happen. So now it's seven in the morning. And I've failed to get any sleep and failed to eat anything so I'm starving and physically exhausted and my heart is racing and it feels like it's being shoved against my lungs and ribcage and I feel that much closer to dying than before. Then I try and fail to go to sleep since apparently I'm not mentally exhausted yet and go on HN and discover this person formerly a part of Mythbusters is dead of a brain aneurysm at 49, and then I remember that wowaka, the world famous Vocaloid artist, probably one of if not the single most popular Vocaloid artist of all time, died of heart failure at the age of 31, 31 years old for fuck's sake and that means I only have 7 years left if it really comes to the worst possible scenario with my health that me never getting any sleep and worrying about dying all of the time every single day of the past year is not doing any favors. And now it feels like my heart is going to explode inside my chest from remembering this, remembering wowaka and Rolling Girl and dying of heart failure in 7 years at the worst possible time because this important person died tragically and everyone considers 49 to be young, 49 is young, right, and my heart hurts so much it feels like it's being squeezed with a belt, and You get the idea.
wallabie 6y ago
A brilliant man who elevated Asian representation on mainstream American TV. Rest in peace.
4x5-Guy 6y ago
That just bites.
amerine 6y ago
damn
woutr_be 6y ago
Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.
- Aeolun 6y ago
  It's just, such a terrible thing to think about. Nothing you can do either.
  - woutr_be 6y ago
    It is, she was on life support for about a week, the doctors had said that there was no chance she would ever wake up, so her parents decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. I can't even begin to understand what they must've gone through, such a terrible thing to happen to anyone. I went to see her the night before (as did many of her friends), it's very unsettling knowing this is the very last time you'll ever get to see that person. And especially given her age, it's very upsetting how unforgiving life can be.
- input_sh 6y ago
  My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems". A day after that the pain didn't stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up with no apparent long-term damage. Definitely a terrible situation to be in. About 4% of people have it, and a small percentage of those only find out when it bursts.
  - fbnlsr 6y ago
    4% seems to be a scary high number. Glad your SO made it fine.
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chris_wot 6y ago
Damn, I loved watching Myth Busters and Grant. I'm very sad to see he has died so young.
alkibiades 6y ago
was just watching mythbusters a few hours ago for the first time in years.. RIP Grant Not sure about the timing but I wonder if Hulu was recommending the show because of his death or it was just random
- mkl 6y ago
  It's possible Hulu's recommendations have a "what's suddenly popular" component, so it could be recommended in response to a number of people choosing to watch it in response to the news. Or it could be a total coincidence; it's a great show, it should be recommended!
mhh__ 6y ago
Absolutely brutal. When I saw the headline I was almost hoping he died in some kind of bizarre robotics accident.
- ben174 6y ago
  At first glance what you say seems insensitive but after thinking about it it’s rather endearing. Dying doing what you love, like Steve Irwin.
dfinninger 6y ago
The Mythbusters were incredibly influential in my desire to pursue engineering. I also liked watching Battlebots, seeing all the crazy things they would come up with... I wish the best for his friends and family.
- jwilber 6y ago
  Oh man, I forgot about battle bots. Loved that show - haven’t thought about it in years but wow, must be loads of fun building those things... RIP to an all around positive addition to our world.
- someperson 6y ago
  Yeah, Grant Imahara's did such great work on Robot Wars!
- kregasaurusrex 6y ago
  I'd recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbusters team surely inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers with a can-do mentality. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo
WatchDog 6y ago
That's really sad. Grant seemed like such a genuine, kind-hearted intelligent dude. My condolences to his family.
kanobo 6y ago
So very sad to lose a hero, I was lucky to be crammed right next to him at Pershing Square in a very crowded group at the March for Science in Downtown Los Angeles a couple years ago. He was very friendly, I was starstruck. I wish I could have chatted with him more.
datameta 6y ago
Honestly this hit me harder than any announced passing in the last few years. What a brilliant and pleasant human being.
runjake 6y ago
Grant warrants a black bar.
- danpalmer 6y ago
  Agreed. He's inspired many "hackers" over the last 15+ years. Many are still early in their careers, but Grant's inspiration shouldn't be underestimated.
- kleer001 6y ago
  "When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect" I agree. That follows. He may not have been a founding member of a computer based community, software, or protocol, but he certainly inspired many of us.
  - danpalmer 6y ago
    My guess is that the age demographic of the moderators may be more tuned to earlier CS community contributors. I often recognise the names from references in university lectures, but don't have much of a connection to them. Grant on the other hand is someone who I grew up with on my TV, inspiring me to make things.
ericbarrett 6y ago
Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions. Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life. He was a good man and I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.
GloriousKoji 6y ago
I normally don't care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn't as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and the biggest explosions were a small circuit fuse burning off.
- emag 6y ago
  I'm in my 40s, and he both influenced me, and has affected me, more than I can ever state...
- andrewstuart2 6y ago
  It's hard to think of him as a celebrity, even. He felt just like a guy you'd hang out with at work or after work.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you're from and where I'm from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be "he strikes me as someone you'd be friends with". I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don't tend to think in terms of "people we hang out with after work", we generally have "friends we first met at work" and "coworkers with no other social relationship". I know it's a small thing, but that's where cultural differences usually manifest, and I find them very interesting.
    - kabacha 6y ago
      I'm not sure where are you from initially but I think it's a flaw with english language itself. There are just too few words to describe relationships in english, everything is very binary, e.g. You either love someone or you don't where other languages are have many more words to describe your relationship with someone; see famous example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love
egeozcan 6y ago
He was one of my heroes. Amazing person overall. RIP.
Mockapapella 6y ago
Had to do a double take on this one. He always seemed like a genuine and kind person, it's weird to see "Grant Imahara" and "Dies" in the same sentence.
aortega 6y ago
What the flying fuck, 2020. This was unexpected. Everybody knows that the only ones capable of getting shit done in Mythbusters were Jamie and Imahara, with Savage a distant third.
- 8note 6y ago
  Scottie? She built a lot of the early stuff
  - aortega 6y ago
    Just realized she also died, WTF.
    - colinmcd 6y ago
      That was Jessi Combs, Scottie's still around.
      - aortega 6y ago
        I have no idea who are those two girls. And I saw a lot of the show.
ShakataGaNai 6y ago
Normally I ignore the "rich and famous" obits, however Grant's passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best. With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it's been a hard year for Mythbusters.
- pininja 6y ago
  I also rewatched all of Mythbusters early in college as I was struggling to figure out what I wanted to be. They really showed the fun to be had building wacky projects!
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  See with the Mythbusters (sidekicks), I can't really see them as rich; I mean I'm sure they made some decent money off of it, but I doubt it set them up for life and I wouldn't be surprised if they got screwed over in that show in favor of Jamie / Adam. I never heard why they were let go / quit the show, although I've always suspected it was because the show just wasn't as popular anymore.
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  - bena 6y ago
    Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have a reported net worth of about $8 million. Grant and Tory have reported net worths of $2 million. And Kari is about $1.5 million. Not bad, but both Jamie and Adam were well respected visual effects artists, builders, and model makers before Mythbusters. Mythbusters primarily shot at Jamie's shop. Grant and Tory both worked at ILM. Kari was an employee of M5, Jamie's company, when she was put on the show. So, not terribly rich, but about what you would expect. $1 - $2 million "net worth" is more attainable than you might think. As net worth includes assets and what not. They have enough money to take substantial risks that might not pay off.
    - mywittyname 6y ago
maddyboo 6y ago
Grant was a hero to a generation of future makers, engineers, artists, and creators.
- kleer001 6y ago
  Same here. You have my feels. I may not be an engineer, but I loved his attitude and work ethic. Gone too soon, far too soon.
JKCalhoun 6y ago
I would love to see a documentary on this man, learn more about his life. I saw only his TV personality but the slim bio I just read suggests he had fascinating life and was kind as well.
- dredds 6y ago
  "The Untold Truth Of Grant Imahara From MythBusters" (2019, 12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0
sushshshsh 6y ago
wow.... horrible news :(
Exuma 6y ago
Damn...how
- entropea 6y ago
  Brain Anyeurism
encom 6y ago
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
- encom 6y ago
  https://archive.ph/qp51G https://archive.ph/qp51G
  - encom 6y ago
    Replying to myself again. OP now points to a different source which actually works.
hasperdi 6y ago
For people who can not view the article, here's an outline link https://outline.com/uGmACW https://outline.com/uGmACW
- kristofferR 6y ago
  Thanks, it's censored in Europe. Edit: Weird, now it doesn't show the GDPR censorship page anymore.
  - pritovido 6y ago
    I can also view it in Spain.
  - numlock86 6y ago
    I can view it just fine here in Germany. Hm, wonder what's up with that.
    - KorfmannArno 6y ago
      Europe != Germany
      - darkwater 6y ago
        But Germany is indeed in Europe. So, if someone says that it cannot be viewed in Europe, as in the whole continent, than saying that you can view it in Germany invalidates the initial assumption. Btw I'm in another European country and I can see the article as well.
  - KorfmannArno 6y ago
    "GDPR censorship page" as in the cookie consent?
    - Hamuko 6y ago
      Usually that refers to HTTP 451 (Unavailable For Legal Reasons) error pages. https://twitter.com/Warin/status/1049566944989536256 https://twitter.com/Warin/status/1049566944989536256
phantarch 6y ago
A hollywood reporter article [1] says that he passed of a brain aneurysm. Tragic way to go and so early. He entertained the heck out of me as a kid. [1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-my...
- dang 6y ago
  (This comment was merged from a thread which originally pointed to a different article.)
axegon_ 6y ago
RIP. Thank you for all the great times I had watching MythBusters a kid! I remember I had to run from school to my house as a kid in order to catch the start of the show. It was awesome!
pixelface 6y ago
Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers in both tech and entertainment. To this day Grant and his coworkers are my 'what do i want to be when i grow up' answer.
- glouwbug 6y ago
  We don't even get cubicles these days
  - neilpanchal 6y ago
    I'd kill for a bog standard, completely depressing, tall walled, beige colored cubicle taken out of an Enron office building.
    - glouwbug 6y ago
      We had them at Intel, and I completely hated it, then 2015 rolled around with hot seats and the open office and I learned how lucky I was
chillee 6y ago
Wow. When I was a kid Mythbusters was one of the only TV shows I watched, and Grant was my favorite on the B team. It was one of the few shows really encouraging kids to do science. What a tragedy.
maxmax_ 6y ago
I never comment here, but this one really hit me. I have so many great memories watching MythBusters and seeing now this headline makes me really sad.
schappim 6y ago
Just when you think 2020 can’t get worse. What a tragedy. RIP Grant!
qserasera 6y ago
This is absolutely devastating.
maccam94 6y ago
I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow. "Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/
sparker72678 6y ago
So, so sad. I absolutely loved Grant, in Mythbusters especially. This is hitting me hard. Fuck 2020.
maccam94 6y ago
I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow. "Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/
- d1str0 6y ago
  This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19. Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.
  - maccam94 6y ago
    I've seen multiple reports of severe blood clotting and strokes in COVID patients, including those who are otherwise asymptomatic, including people under 50.[1] Given that there is a pandemic going around with similar symptoms, I don't think this is a huge leap (but again, I am not saying it's anywhere near certain either). I probably should have used this source in my original comment, I just grabbed the first link I had handy. [1]: https://www.biospace.com/article/covid-19-increases-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-stroke/ https://www.biospace.com/article/covid-19-increases-risk-of-... [2]: https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-about-covid-19-and-abnormal-blood-clotting https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-ab... [3]: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/11/searching-for-ways-to-prevent-life-threatening-blood-clots-in-covid-19/ https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/11/searching-for-ways-...
    - ak39 6y ago
      That COVID wasn't mentioned by reports is itself information. I believe that had Grant tested positive for COVID, the reports would have mentioned that. The fact that it isn't mentioned, makes it unlikely that it is COVID related.
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pininja 6y ago
One of his most recent creations was a Baby Yoda! So sad to hear of his passing, like many others here I was inspired by him and still aspire to be a creative coder and builder like he was. https://youtu.be/I7P4frD_GiE https://youtu.be/I7P4frD_GiE
- thewileyone 6y ago
  Didn't know this ... what an awesome guy ... sadder now ...
- ronyeh 6y ago
  Amazing. What a great engineer, and a great person. Rest in peace, Mr. Imahara. https://www.cnet.com/news/former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-yoda-robot-will-cheer-up-sick-kids/ https://www.cnet.com/news/former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-y...
- dorkwood 6y ago
  "Imahara plans to take the Baby Yoda to children's hospitals to cheer up young patients". Heartbreaking.
Alupis 6y ago
Armed with science, engineering, and curiosity, the Mythbusters crew inspired a generation. Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Still to this day, my friends and I consider the Mythbusters as the final word on so many "myths". Grant's clever use of robotics, sensors and code opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. I still remember the first time I read a temperature sensor on an arduino. Here I was, interacting with the real world, using just a few components and some code... solving no problems but feeling invincible nonetheless. Thanks Grant for inspiring me, and many more like me. There are so few that inspired so much. Rest in peace.
- phaus 6y ago
  >Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren't always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about cool hacks than scientific validity. They decided people being injured by bullets being shot into the sky was a myth mostly because they couldn't locate the bullets they fired into the sky, in spite of talking to one of the leading experts on the phenomenon, talking to a doctor that performed surgery on people injured by bullets fired into the sky, and discovering there are people in prison for seriously insuring people miles away by, once again, shooting bullets into the sky. That was before Grant's time though, he was awesome.
  - aroch 6y ago
    In fairness, if I remember correctly, the bullet myth was testing the narrow condition of "shot straight up into the air" such that the bullet would be returning at terminal velocity and no longer be on a ballistic trajectory. Whereas, most people struck by bullets fired into the air are probably being hit by bullets that are still on a predominantly horizontal trajectory.
    - phaus 6y ago
      Fair enough, but IMO if they are holding themselves to that narrow and frankly completely useless condition then 90% of the episode was wasted effort talking to people about things that, by the definition of their own condition were completely unrelated. I wouldn't consider 46 degrees to be a predominantly vertical trajectory, but its closer to being that than it is horizontal. I'd bet money that people have been injured by bullets between 46 and 70 degree angles at least. I wouldn't rule out higher angles than that either. It could end up having less energy sooner than I imagine, but I would have to see it simulated far more convincingly than they did on the show.
shadykiller 6y ago
RIP. He was my favorite person and in my opinion, most talented on the show.
pontifier 6y ago
For several years Grant had the only other master/slave robot arm I could find on youtube. I was so excited when I found one and saw it was his... I felt a real connection with him, even though I didn't know him personally. It's been a long time dream of mine to be on battlebots, and I treasure the Deadblow T-shirt I got there about 20 years ago. This truly hurts. The 2 videos for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XChu20hTxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XChu20hTxU
- VikingCoder 6y ago
  I desperately want to put an actuated camera on that, and wear a VR helmet, so you can see the arms from your point of view.
grawprog 6y ago
Aww man...i was just heading to bed and took a last look at hn and then this. That really sucks. :(
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kgc 6y ago
Normally when newsworthy deaths occur, I'm not affected. However, Grant's death really hits home for some reason. I first saw him on Mythbusters. He seemed like such a nice and brilliant guy.
olcor 6y ago
All I know about him is that he was the one who created Geoff the Robot in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. That robot was AMAZING, it enabled a lot of good sketches! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson This is not a good year :(
peignoir 6y ago
I wished there was a way to detect aneurysm without the need of an MRI... maybe one day with AI and some blood pressure sensor. My condolences to his family.
- TaupeRanger 6y ago
  The problem, just as in cancer, is not detection. It's what to do once you find it. Many aneurysms/cancers that could be found will turn out to be harmless, and the risk of harming someone physically and/or psychologically from unnecessarily treating them is not negligible. There isn't much we can do for aneurysms unless they are obviously immediately threatening.
  - TheHypnotist 6y ago
    A doctor basically told my mother "The cure could be worse than the problem". So they just monitor.
  - petercooper 6y ago
    This. The risk calculations can be quite scary and people's responses to them can be poor given a powerful human dislike of uncertainty. Consider a totally fabricated and naive example of finding a minor aneurysm with a 0.1% annual risk of rupture versus a 10% risk of death during surgery.. there are many people who would take the surgery to remove the uncertainty. (And this is a highly contrived example, real life is far more complicated!)
b3lvedere 6y ago
Aww damn man. He was awesome to watch. I'll miss him. May he tinker and have fun forever wherever he is now.
peapicker 6y ago
I’m 49. Already hit one funeral this week. 49 isn’t supposed to feel this old. :(
jmlundberg 6y ago
You have got to love him as Sulu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432 Edit. The episodes are free, at https://www.startrekcontinues.com https://www.startrekcontinues.com
- JackFr 6y ago
  Those are AMAZING. How did I not know about this?
pozy 6y ago
Great man and an inspiration through Mythbusters. RIP Grant.
dageshi 6y ago
This is very sad, Mythbusters is just about my favourite tv series of all time.
hydrogenbonds 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that for most of these posts, this is how it goes for HN users: - no idea who this guy is, let's spend 5-10 minutes of my life to find out - hmm yeah, he did good - upvote But maybe we keep doing this for post after post, wasting time and learning stuff that won't help us achieves our actual objectives.
- naavis 6y ago
  Or maybe the person actually had an effect on many people here, and they are legitimately sad that he passed away?
- sanitycheck 6y ago
  I would guess that around 90% of HN's US users have watched Mythbusters, and probably 30-40% of users from elsewhere - which might be half the people reading this post. If you don't know it, I'd totally recommend it - especially the ones with Grant in (S4-13?) Anyway, I'm really sorry to hear this - seemed like a great guy and, as others have said, a fantastic role model.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    HNers should also watch him as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek Continues. It's a fan series that manages to perfectly recreate the original Star Trek, down to set lighting and acting style. It's truly a work of love.
- rvz 6y ago
  Of course that the majority of HN folks here know that Grant has had a major influence in their lives and engineering careers, so they will pay their respects here, which they should. My deepest condolences to Mr Imahara's family. Unfortunately on HN, it now seems to depend on some other things to be able to pay your respects to here. We lost Kobe Bryant (NBA basketball player) and some (including me) wanted to pay their respects here, but it was repeatedly flagged and censored immediately.
- xsmasher 6y ago
  I didn't understand why people cried when John Lennon died; they didn't even know him, right? Then when I heard Elliot Smith died and I had to pull over for a while and I got it.
giorgioz 6y ago
I'm deeply sorry for the loss of Grant having lost an engineer friend the same way. An engineer friend of mine passed away due to brain aneurysm few years ago. Higor was in his twenties and had just achieved moving to Dublin after managing to acquire an Italian citizenship through his Italian ancestors being from Brazil. I fantasize I will build a machine to extract his consciouness before the brian aneurysm saving him (but also causing the brain aneurysm). Being an atheist I guess that's my way to hope for a way to see him again. I miss you Higor
jorgenveisdal 6y ago
Such a truly good person
filmgirlcw 6y ago
Ugh. This one hits hard. I stopped watching MythBusters before he even left the show, but it was one of those shows we always watched in college and his robots were always the best. What a tragic and sad loss.
an-allen 6y ago
Grant Imahara’s curiosity, energy, and brilliance have taught millions of folks the unbridled joy of how to be bewildered by the world and overcome that with sober, rational, reason and scientific method. It gives me hope how the celebration of Grant front and center in my networks.
bjt2n3904 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215530496 https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215... This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he finished. Projects that will never be completed, now that their creator has died. Grant, and Myth Busters were an inspiration to me as a young engineer. He was barely my age on the show, but influenced an entire generation of future engineers. I checked his Twitter feed. Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today. The world lost a decent person, and a brilliant engineer. Nobody knows their time. That what I leave unfinished would only be personal trivialities, and not angry tweets. That I would be able to have that impact on the next generation.
- slau 6y ago
  It is eerie how much that looks like my workbench. I guess EEs are all the same.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    It's a neurological condition. We go to college to get a diagnosis.
    - 0-_-0 6y ago
      "Don't worry Timmy, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just an electrical engineer."
      - rbanffy 6y ago
        He had the knack https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw
    - pradn 6y ago
      From someone who gets giddy about exciting algorithms, languages, performance numbers - I suppose we're kindred spirits, though across the pond of the hardware-software divide. Glad the world has all sorts of people in love with all sorts of things.
ainiriand 6y ago
I hate this year. I am going to miss him even though I never met him he was kind of a friend.
pasticom 6y ago
It reminds me of an old podcast where the host lost a ton of weight and was healthy again but was complaining that for all the work he put in to be healthy, his body could just one day fail and he’d die.
vmchale 6y ago
Horrible.
indiantinker 6y ago
Super sad! It was due to Grant, Adam, and Jamie that I fancied making things from an early age. I used to do LEGO versions of their builds as a kid that helped me a lot to become a designer and engineer today. The kind of multi-disciplinary notion of life they professed was a key for me to approach my education. I still remember dubbed versions of their show in Hindi on Discovery and my parents allowing to watch it beyond TV as "Whatever is on discovery is good for kids" I resonated a lot with Grant as he was very simple and introvert-ish among the whole lot. This year is like a nightmare. RIP Grant :'(
victorbojica 6y ago
I've really liked Mythbusters. I grew up with their shows. I still think about their shows weekly. I'm really sad about what happened. Grant seemed (didn't get to know him) like a very nice guy and he really inspired me (along with the whole Mythbusters team) and as it appears, a whole lot of other people. Thanks Grant for your work and dedication! You won't be forgotten!
aquaticsunset 6y ago
This was not an expected headline to read this morning. I, like so many others, was shaped by Grant as a kid. It’s a sad day :(
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zxcvbn4038 6y ago
This will hit my kid hard, since he learned to work the TV his two favorite shows were Mythbusters and Popular Mechanics for Kids. When they dropped the B team and when they stopped producing the shows were probably his biggest introduction to the general impermanence of the world.
Unklejoe 6y ago
Damn. He was one of those people who you could just tell was a good dude. I grew up watching him.
BaldricksGhost 6y ago
Only appropriate that this has risen to the top of HN. RIP Grant.
brian_herman__ 6y ago
I wish we could get a black bar for this guy.
- kleer001 6y ago
  Why can't we? Sure he didn't write fundamental software back in the 70s, but he was inspirational for many of the users here.
ravenstine 6y ago
Grant's intelligence and creativity was always inspiring. This is very sad to hear.
antonzabirko 6y ago
Sounds like a corona-induced aneurysm.
RazvanS 6y ago
Sad news. I remember fondly watching Myth Busters show. RIP.
aivosha 6y ago
for all those talking about their benches: good job making this about yourselves ! why pass an opportunity, right ?
- evgen 6y ago
  Exactly. How dare they take a traumatic event and use it to think about what might link them to the victim; to consider experiences and habits you might share with the victim of this unfortunate event is selfish. Don't you all know that this is a time for self-serving finger-waging by ignorant scolds who are here to tell you what is and is not an acceptable format for sharing grief? "Grief does not change you, it reveals you." Would you like to know what I think it has revealed in this instance?
  - aivosha 6y ago
    go fuck yourself
    - dang 6y ago
      Hey, please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how strongly you feel or how badly other commenters are behaving. It only makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
atum47 6y ago
My dad got us direct tv back in 2000. I watched a lot of MTV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel (where mithbusters was broadcasted for us, Brazil). I already had a taste for science and engineering, I use to love Beakman's World (when I was even younger). Is great to see how many people, like me, were inspired by people like Grant. He will be missed, for sure. You should see some of his videos in robot fight.
kahlonel 6y ago
Grant was my childhood hero, and one of a few people who inspired me to pursue robotics. RIP Grant. 2020 fucking sucks.
ezoe 6y ago
I also lost a friend who was very influential among us this year. The death was so sudden and guessing from his tweet before his death, it was probably cerebral apoplexy or similar sudden brain damage. If you have a friend not keep in touch of years, you should consider to have a little chat sometimes because you never knew he or you still alive tomorrow.
thrownaway954 6y ago
kerri said it best "i wish i had a time machine some days" :( it sucks getting old and seeing truly wonderful people pass. man i miss mythbusters. they all had such chemistry and it truly was a wholesome show. grant, kerri, adam, jaime and tory really became part of my life. rip grant... you have no idea how many people you inspired.
Astropop 6y ago
Awful death, blood flow issues in the brain tissue. RIP
Balgair 6y ago
Grant was an inspiration. The whole crew were, are. Their efforts pushed me along the path I am on and made my life measurably better. Grant was core to that. Grant made my life better. I got to meet him one at a Maker Faire. They say, never meet your heroes. Grant was the exception to that rule. Shaking his hand was everything I expected. He was kind to some rando and seemed happy that he was able to make a better life for some stranger he'd never met. I'm so grateful for his efforts. I am so grateful for his humor. I am so grateful for his joy. Thank you Grant.
staycoolboy 6y ago
I'm grateful for Grant, an engineer who isn't a billionaire-egomaniac and still stirred such a passion in so many. How often are engineers role models? At least in this part of history.
WhyKill 6y ago
Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.
Cirpop 6y ago
RIP! Another one of my childhood stars just gone like that...
hermitcrab 6y ago
very sad news. I loved Mythbusters, especially the ones with Grant, Tori and Kari. I still cringe when I think about that time Grant nearly disemboweled himself on camera.
jdofaz 6y ago
I didn't have cable so I rarely saw myth busters, but I was a fan of his for building the Geoff Peterson robot
knd775 6y ago
Where's his black bar?
- kleer001 6y ago
  Good question. IMHO the mods lean more heavily towards older more fundamental CS contributors. I think he def deserved the honor.

1963 points by jmcgough 6y ago

I met him at filming of one of the early seasons (maybe first?) in Vegas - he was warm and inviting even then before he became a household name. Why do the good people always seem to die young yet assholes live forever? Ugh. We are pretty much the same age so this also hits doubly close to home for me. Prayers for his friends and family.

donatj 6y ago

Brain aneurism. The thought has always kept me up at night, and this only serves to make the fear worse. Poor guy, I really looked up to him. This really puts a damper on my mood which had been on an upswing recently

oski 6y ago
Anyone know if this could have been caused by Covid-19? There have been reports of strokes due to it.
ajeet_dhaliwal 6y ago
Yeah it seems like an area that needs massively more research, the information available on what causes these seems filled with gaps.
- TaupeRanger 6y ago
  Compared to heart disease and cancer, aneurysms are a drop in the bucket. Not that they should be ignored, but if you're choosing where to put funding it's not going to be high on the list.

emerged 6y ago

Is there effective screening for aneurism potential? It runs the male side of my family and I'm approaching due time.

popped 6y ago
Vascular diseases like aneurism are reduced significantly on a plant based diet. Hope you get to read this before it gets downvoted to oblivion.
- haecceity 6y ago
  Why down vote this? People don't like vegetables?
  - hthtegr 6y ago
    It's threatening to their model of how health works. I suspect it's not just a down vote, it's a passionate button smashing one. I was very pro meat and was researching counter arguments to my vegan mother in law when I, sadly, found out the science is about as contested as whether or not aliens have visited earth. I.e. a lot in the general populous but basically not at all in the bonefide nutritional science community.
  - nikolay 6y ago
    Maybe because it's not plant-based, but vegan. We all eat plants - the difference is some don't eat anything else. There are certain supplements, which can help with it [0], specifically: * Alpha-lipoic acid * Calcium * Folic Acid (actually, Folate), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Betaine * Magnesium * Omega-3 Fatty Acids * Potassium * Vitamin C * Vitamin E * Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) * Selenium * Bilberry * Garlic * Ginkgo * Ginseng * Turmeric [0]: http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productid=107&pid=33&gid=000159 http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productid=107&...
  - hthtegr 6y ago
    Downvoting a simple question, really? Shows the magnitude of emotional response people who are insecure about the science of their food choices elicit when threatened.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't do this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mmastrac 6y ago

Fuck. Grant has always been a shining example of engineering spirit. I have looked up to him for a long time.

netmare 6y ago
I remember when they were testing the aerodynamics of something in Mythbusters and needed a quick way to create laminar flow. Grant's solution was to cut both ends of a pack of drinking straws and put it inline with the airflow. Such an elegantly brilliant idea.

dom2 6y ago

As a younger person who hasn't seen many of the celebrities I grew up with pass away, this is probably one of the first celebrity deaths that really affected me. I grew up watching Grant and the whole MythBusters crew. The show was hugely influential and definitely guided me towards an interest in science and engineering. Whenever I think about the science of the MythBusters, I always bring up this xkcd comic.[1] I think science tends to have an ivory tower issue, and those who don't get the resources growing up to be included in standard academic science may feel left out. People like Grant and shows like the MythBusters made the viewers feel included, and instead of just talking down to the viewer about a bunch of facts, the show included them into the process of discovery. I think that's really cool and important. [1] https://xkcd.com/397/ https://xkcd.com/397/

wyxuan 6y ago

Damn. I watched pretty much every episode of mythbusters, so this one hits hard.

fermentation 6y ago

This is such awful news. I looked up to him growing up

godzillabrennus 6y ago

So sad! He was amazing on MB.

TeaDrunk 6y ago

Grant was why I decided to go into STEM. :(

d33lio 6y ago

Wow, this cuts really deep. This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money. Even at 26 I still don't have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn't belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant, since he was one of my childhood "heroes" who never lost his luster or genuine character.

mseepgood 6y ago
> This makes me want to take more risk in life Depends on what type of risk. Some risks make you die earlier.
- wmichelin 6y ago
  Guess they'd better sit inside all the time then, can't risk dying. They clearly meant that they wanted to live life more fully. Thank you for pointing out that people can die on a post about a person dying.
jeffrallen 6y ago
> I still don't have a great way to digest loss I'm about double your age and don't either. And I would be surprised if someone double my age claimed to. Live every day like it could be your last. Don't hold grudges, and tell people you love them. That's the best we can do. And it is apparently what Grant did, as his colleagues all have fond memories of him. RIP, Grant. You were cool.
- nonbirithm 6y ago
  > Live every day like it could be your last. I've apparently been doing this, and you know? I'm thinking it's not going to work out. If I followed those words to the letter, literally believing that I was going to die of a heart attack at any moment, I would go insane. Maybe I am going insane, then. There are a lot of things we take for granted. Sure. I'm incredibly grateful to have both my hands, because if I lost even one of them then I would be severely impacted in my work. I could end up having to take a pay cut or lose my job outright. And I might never be able to draw at the level I could accomplish by still having hands. But I believe there's a reason we take these things for granted, with the side effect in a lot of people of never understanding their importance until it's too late. We do so because if we didn't take anything for granted, we would spend all of the time thinking about what would happen if we suddenly lost body part X or Y, and become constantly aware of every single tendon and muscle in our body and how they were still functional as opposed to dead, and never get anything done. Or at least greatly reduce our mental capacity to think about the important things we want to accomplish with those limbs instead of spending it on fruitless worry. So I have to both understand that yes, it would be horrible if I lost my hands or ability to walk or my sight or my hearing or my life, and then I have to put it out of my mind and do what I want to do while there's still time instead of worrying about it every single day. And even thinking like that becomes counterproductive. I'm 24 and have had this bizzarre chest pain. I went to the doctor and the ER several times for it. Dozens of times. Nothing came of it. Not even a diagnosis of pleurisy, or a diagnosis of anything at all. It was just unresolved and I have to assume it's something in the realm of anxiety or hypochondria. And it still hurts in the most inconvenient moments and is a constant hovering reminder of my own mortality. So now it's 3 in the morning and I need to write this thing. I know I'm only killing myself by failing to fall asleep at 3 in the morning but I don't know if I'm going to be alive tomorrow and I need to get this out there. Need someone to know that before I died that yes, I had thought enough to think of this thing, this concept that nobody else I've ever met has thought of, that nobody else will ever think and if I'm going to die tomorrow there will never be anyone else that will think of it again. So I need to do this, to write this down and move my still functioning fingers and joints over the keys to just get it out, need to finish this before I die because I don't take my own impending death for granted and I was smart enough to realize that fact, so use it. And oh, there's that other thing, that programming project I've spent years on committing to master alone and intend to spend several more years on. If I die that project will never be finished because nobody else cares enough. Sure, someone else realizing I died somehow and telling the community that I intended to finish it but never could because instead I happened to die, out of my control, could motivate someone else to take up the flag. Or not, and as a result the planet overheats 100 years from now without that one thing I wanted to accomplish with my life ever becoming reality. What could possibly be worse for the psyche of human accomplishment, of redefining the status quo, when you're trapped in this box of failing hearts and endless anxiety and just couldn't do it so that's just the end of it all? That's the end of the dream? What else is there to lose? No. Not going to happen. So now it's seven in the morning. And I've failed to get any sleep and failed to eat anything so I'm starving and physically exhausted and my heart is racing and it feels like it's being shoved against my lungs and ribcage and I feel that much closer to dying than before. Then I try and fail to go to sleep since apparently I'm not mentally exhausted yet and go on HN and discover this person formerly a part of Mythbusters is dead of a brain aneurysm at 49, and then I remember that wowaka, the world famous Vocaloid artist, probably one of if not the single most popular Vocaloid artist of all time, died of heart failure at the age of 31, 31 years old for fuck's sake and that means I only have 7 years left if it really comes to the worst possible scenario with my health that me never getting any sleep and worrying about dying all of the time every single day of the past year is not doing any favors. And now it feels like my heart is going to explode inside my chest from remembering this, remembering wowaka and Rolling Girl and dying of heart failure in 7 years at the worst possible time because this important person died tragically and everyone considers 49 to be young, 49 is young, right, and my heart hurts so much it feels like it's being squeezed with a belt, and You get the idea.

wallabie 6y ago

A brilliant man who elevated Asian representation on mainstream American TV. Rest in peace.

4x5-Guy 6y ago

That just bites.

amerine 6y ago

damn

woutr_be 6y ago

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

Aeolun 6y ago
It's just, such a terrible thing to think about. Nothing you can do either.
- woutr_be 6y ago
  It is, she was on life support for about a week, the doctors had said that there was no chance she would ever wake up, so her parents decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. I can't even begin to understand what they must've gone through, such a terrible thing to happen to anyone. I went to see her the night before (as did many of her friends), it's very unsettling knowing this is the very last time you'll ever get to see that person. And especially given her age, it's very upsetting how unforgiving life can be.
input_sh 6y ago
My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems". A day after that the pain didn't stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up with no apparent long-term damage. Definitely a terrible situation to be in. About 4% of people have it, and a small percentage of those only find out when it bursts.
- fbnlsr 6y ago
  4% seems to be a scary high number. Glad your SO made it fine.
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chris_wot 6y ago

Damn, I loved watching Myth Busters and Grant. I'm very sad to see he has died so young.

alkibiades 6y ago

was just watching mythbusters a few hours ago for the first time in years.. RIP Grant Not sure about the timing but I wonder if Hulu was recommending the show because of his death or it was just random

mkl 6y ago
It's possible Hulu's recommendations have a "what's suddenly popular" component, so it could be recommended in response to a number of people choosing to watch it in response to the news. Or it could be a total coincidence; it's a great show, it should be recommended!

mhh__ 6y ago

Absolutely brutal. When I saw the headline I was almost hoping he died in some kind of bizarre robotics accident.

ben174 6y ago
At first glance what you say seems insensitive but after thinking about it it’s rather endearing. Dying doing what you love, like Steve Irwin.

dfinninger 6y ago

The Mythbusters were incredibly influential in my desire to pursue engineering. I also liked watching Battlebots, seeing all the crazy things they would come up with... I wish the best for his friends and family.

jwilber 6y ago
Oh man, I forgot about battle bots. Loved that show - haven’t thought about it in years but wow, must be loads of fun building those things... RIP to an all around positive addition to our world.
someperson 6y ago
Yeah, Grant Imahara's did such great work on Robot Wars!
kregasaurusrex 6y ago
I'd recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbusters team surely inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers with a can-do mentality. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo

WatchDog 6y ago

That's really sad. Grant seemed like such a genuine, kind-hearted intelligent dude. My condolences to his family.

kanobo 6y ago

So very sad to lose a hero, I was lucky to be crammed right next to him at Pershing Square in a very crowded group at the March for Science in Downtown Los Angeles a couple years ago. He was very friendly, I was starstruck. I wish I could have chatted with him more.

datameta 6y ago

Honestly this hit me harder than any announced passing in the last few years. What a brilliant and pleasant human being.

runjake 6y ago

Grant warrants a black bar.

danpalmer 6y ago
Agreed. He's inspired many "hackers" over the last 15+ years. Many are still early in their careers, but Grant's inspiration shouldn't be underestimated.
kleer001 6y ago
"When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect" I agree. That follows. He may not have been a founding member of a computer based community, software, or protocol, but he certainly inspired many of us.
- danpalmer 6y ago
  My guess is that the age demographic of the moderators may be more tuned to earlier CS community contributors. I often recognise the names from references in university lectures, but don't have much of a connection to them. Grant on the other hand is someone who I grew up with on my TV, inspiring me to make things.

ericbarrett 6y ago

Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions. Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life. He was a good man and I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.

GloriousKoji 6y ago

I normally don't care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn't as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and the biggest explosions were a small circuit fuse burning off.

emag 6y ago
I'm in my 40s, and he both influenced me, and has affected me, more than I can ever state...
andrewstuart2 6y ago
It's hard to think of him as a celebrity, even. He felt just like a guy you'd hang out with at work or after work.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you're from and where I'm from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be "he strikes me as someone you'd be friends with". I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don't tend to think in terms of "people we hang out with after work", we generally have "friends we first met at work" and "coworkers with no other social relationship". I know it's a small thing, but that's where cultural differences usually manifest, and I find them very interesting.
  - kabacha 6y ago
    I'm not sure where are you from initially but I think it's a flaw with english language itself. There are just too few words to describe relationships in english, everything is very binary, e.g. You either love someone or you don't where other languages are have many more words to describe your relationship with someone; see famous example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

egeozcan 6y ago

He was one of my heroes. Amazing person overall. RIP.

Mockapapella 6y ago

Had to do a double take on this one. He always seemed like a genuine and kind person, it's weird to see "Grant Imahara" and "Dies" in the same sentence.

aortega 6y ago

What the flying fuck, 2020. This was unexpected. Everybody knows that the only ones capable of getting shit done in Mythbusters were Jamie and Imahara, with Savage a distant third.

8note 6y ago
Scottie? She built a lot of the early stuff
- aortega 6y ago
  Just realized she also died, WTF.
  - colinmcd 6y ago
    That was Jessi Combs, Scottie's still around.
    - aortega 6y ago
      I have no idea who are those two girls. And I saw a lot of the show.

ShakataGaNai 6y ago

Normally I ignore the "rich and famous" obits, however Grant's passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best. With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it's been a hard year for Mythbusters.

pininja 6y ago
I also rewatched all of Mythbusters early in college as I was struggling to figure out what I wanted to be. They really showed the fun to be had building wacky projects!
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
See with the Mythbusters (sidekicks), I can't really see them as rich; I mean I'm sure they made some decent money off of it, but I doubt it set them up for life and I wouldn't be surprised if they got screwed over in that show in favor of Jamie / Adam. I never heard why they were let go / quit the show, although I've always suspected it was because the show just wasn't as popular anymore.
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- bena 6y ago
  Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have a reported net worth of about $8 million. Grant and Tory have reported net worths of $2 million. And Kari is about $1.5 million. Not bad, but both Jamie and Adam were well respected visual effects artists, builders, and model makers before Mythbusters. Mythbusters primarily shot at Jamie's shop. Grant and Tory both worked at ILM. Kari was an employee of M5, Jamie's company, when she was put on the show. So, not terribly rich, but about what you would expect. $1 - $2 million "net worth" is more attainable than you might think. As net worth includes assets and what not. They have enough money to take substantial risks that might not pay off.
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maddyboo 6y ago

Grant was a hero to a generation of future makers, engineers, artists, and creators.

kleer001 6y ago
Same here. You have my feels. I may not be an engineer, but I loved his attitude and work ethic. Gone too soon, far too soon.

JKCalhoun 6y ago

I would love to see a documentary on this man, learn more about his life. I saw only his TV personality but the slim bio I just read suggests he had fascinating life and was kind as well.

dredds 6y ago
"The Untold Truth Of Grant Imahara From MythBusters" (2019, 12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0

sushshshsh 6y ago

wow.... horrible news :(

Exuma 6y ago

Damn...how

entropea 6y ago
Brain Anyeurism

encom 6y ago

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

encom 6y ago
https://archive.ph/qp51G https://archive.ph/qp51G
- encom 6y ago
  Replying to myself again. OP now points to a different source which actually works.

hasperdi 6y ago

For people who can not view the article, here's an outline link https://outline.com/uGmACW https://outline.com/uGmACW

kristofferR 6y ago
Thanks, it's censored in Europe. Edit: Weird, now it doesn't show the GDPR censorship page anymore.
- pritovido 6y ago
  I can also view it in Spain.
- numlock86 6y ago
  I can view it just fine here in Germany. Hm, wonder what's up with that.
  - KorfmannArno 6y ago
    Europe != Germany
    - darkwater 6y ago
      But Germany is indeed in Europe. So, if someone says that it cannot be viewed in Europe, as in the whole continent, than saying that you can view it in Germany invalidates the initial assumption. Btw I'm in another European country and I can see the article as well.
- KorfmannArno 6y ago
  "GDPR censorship page" as in the cookie consent?
  - Hamuko 6y ago
    Usually that refers to HTTP 451 (Unavailable For Legal Reasons) error pages. https://twitter.com/Warin/status/1049566944989536256 https://twitter.com/Warin/status/1049566944989536256

phantarch 6y ago

A hollywood reporter article [1] says that he passed of a brain aneurysm. Tragic way to go and so early. He entertained the heck out of me as a kid. [1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-my...

dang 6y ago
(This comment was merged from a thread which originally pointed to a different article.)

axegon_ 6y ago

RIP. Thank you for all the great times I had watching MythBusters a kid! I remember I had to run from school to my house as a kid in order to catch the start of the show. It was awesome!

pixelface 6y ago

Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers in both tech and entertainment. To this day Grant and his coworkers are my 'what do i want to be when i grow up' answer.

glouwbug 6y ago
We don't even get cubicles these days
- neilpanchal 6y ago
  I'd kill for a bog standard, completely depressing, tall walled, beige colored cubicle taken out of an Enron office building.
  - glouwbug 6y ago
    We had them at Intel, and I completely hated it, then 2015 rolled around with hot seats and the open office and I learned how lucky I was

chillee 6y ago

Wow. When I was a kid Mythbusters was one of the only TV shows I watched, and Grant was my favorite on the B team. It was one of the few shows really encouraging kids to do science. What a tragedy.

maxmax_ 6y ago

I never comment here, but this one really hit me. I have so many great memories watching MythBusters and seeing now this headline makes me really sad.

schappim 6y ago

Just when you think 2020 can’t get worse. What a tragedy. RIP Grant!

qserasera 6y ago

This is absolutely devastating.

maccam94 6y ago

I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow. "Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/

sparker72678 6y ago

So, so sad. I absolutely loved Grant, in Mythbusters especially. This is hitting me hard. Fuck 2020.

maccam94 6y ago

d1str0 6y ago
This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19. Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.
- maccam94 6y ago
  I've seen multiple reports of severe blood clotting and strokes in COVID patients, including those who are otherwise asymptomatic, including people under 50.[1] Given that there is a pandemic going around with similar symptoms, I don't think this is a huge leap (but again, I am not saying it's anywhere near certain either). I probably should have used this source in my original comment, I just grabbed the first link I had handy. [1]: https://www.biospace.com/article/covid-19-increases-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-stroke/ https://www.biospace.com/article/covid-19-increases-risk-of-... [2]: https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-about-covid-19-and-abnormal-blood-clotting https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-ab... [3]: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/11/searching-for-ways-to-prevent-life-threatening-blood-clots-in-covid-19/ https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/11/searching-for-ways-...
  - ak39 6y ago
    That COVID wasn't mentioned by reports is itself information. I believe that had Grant tested positive for COVID, the reports would have mentioned that. The fact that it isn't mentioned, makes it unlikely that it is COVID related.
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pininja 6y ago

One of his most recent creations was a Baby Yoda! So sad to hear of his passing, like many others here I was inspired by him and still aspire to be a creative coder and builder like he was. https://youtu.be/I7P4frD_GiE https://youtu.be/I7P4frD_GiE

thewileyone 6y ago
Didn't know this ... what an awesome guy ... sadder now ...
ronyeh 6y ago
Amazing. What a great engineer, and a great person. Rest in peace, Mr. Imahara. https://www.cnet.com/news/former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-yoda-robot-will-cheer-up-sick-kids/ https://www.cnet.com/news/former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-y...
dorkwood 6y ago
"Imahara plans to take the Baby Yoda to children's hospitals to cheer up young patients". Heartbreaking.

Alupis 6y ago

Armed with science, engineering, and curiosity, the Mythbusters crew inspired a generation. Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Still to this day, my friends and I consider the Mythbusters as the final word on so many "myths". Grant's clever use of robotics, sensors and code opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. I still remember the first time I read a temperature sensor on an arduino. Here I was, interacting with the real world, using just a few components and some code... solving no problems but feeling invincible nonetheless. Thanks Grant for inspiring me, and many more like me. There are so few that inspired so much. Rest in peace.

phaus 6y ago
>Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren't always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about cool hacks than scientific validity. They decided people being injured by bullets being shot into the sky was a myth mostly because they couldn't locate the bullets they fired into the sky, in spite of talking to one of the leading experts on the phenomenon, talking to a doctor that performed surgery on people injured by bullets fired into the sky, and discovering there are people in prison for seriously insuring people miles away by, once again, shooting bullets into the sky. That was before Grant's time though, he was awesome.
- aroch 6y ago
  In fairness, if I remember correctly, the bullet myth was testing the narrow condition of "shot straight up into the air" such that the bullet would be returning at terminal velocity and no longer be on a ballistic trajectory. Whereas, most people struck by bullets fired into the air are probably being hit by bullets that are still on a predominantly horizontal trajectory.
  - phaus 6y ago
    Fair enough, but IMO if they are holding themselves to that narrow and frankly completely useless condition then 90% of the episode was wasted effort talking to people about things that, by the definition of their own condition were completely unrelated. I wouldn't consider 46 degrees to be a predominantly vertical trajectory, but its closer to being that than it is horizontal. I'd bet money that people have been injured by bullets between 46 and 70 degree angles at least. I wouldn't rule out higher angles than that either. It could end up having less energy sooner than I imagine, but I would have to see it simulated far more convincingly than they did on the show.

shadykiller 6y ago

RIP. He was my favorite person and in my opinion, most talented on the show.

pontifier 6y ago

For several years Grant had the only other master/slave robot arm I could find on youtube. I was so excited when I found one and saw it was his... I felt a real connection with him, even though I didn't know him personally. It's been a long time dream of mine to be on battlebots, and I treasure the Deadblow T-shirt I got there about 20 years ago. This truly hurts. The 2 videos for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XChu20hTxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XChu20hTxU

VikingCoder 6y ago
I desperately want to put an actuated camera on that, and wear a VR helmet, so you can see the arms from your point of view.

grawprog 6y ago

Aww man...i was just heading to bed and took a last look at hn and then this. That really sucks. :(

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kgc 6y ago

Normally when newsworthy deaths occur, I'm not affected. However, Grant's death really hits home for some reason. I first saw him on Mythbusters. He seemed like such a nice and brilliant guy.

olcor 6y ago

All I know about him is that he was the one who created Geoff the Robot in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. That robot was AMAZING, it enabled a lot of good sketches! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson This is not a good year :(

peignoir 6y ago

I wished there was a way to detect aneurysm without the need of an MRI... maybe one day with AI and some blood pressure sensor. My condolences to his family.

TaupeRanger 6y ago
The problem, just as in cancer, is not detection. It's what to do once you find it. Many aneurysms/cancers that could be found will turn out to be harmless, and the risk of harming someone physically and/or psychologically from unnecessarily treating them is not negligible. There isn't much we can do for aneurysms unless they are obviously immediately threatening.
- TheHypnotist 6y ago
  A doctor basically told my mother "The cure could be worse than the problem". So they just monitor.
- petercooper 6y ago
  This. The risk calculations can be quite scary and people's responses to them can be poor given a powerful human dislike of uncertainty. Consider a totally fabricated and naive example of finding a minor aneurysm with a 0.1% annual risk of rupture versus a 10% risk of death during surgery.. there are many people who would take the surgery to remove the uncertainty. (And this is a highly contrived example, real life is far more complicated!)

b3lvedere 6y ago

Aww damn man. He was awesome to watch. I'll miss him. May he tinker and have fun forever wherever he is now.

peapicker 6y ago

I’m 49. Already hit one funeral this week. 49 isn’t supposed to feel this old. :(

jmlundberg 6y ago

You have got to love him as Sulu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432 Edit. The episodes are free, at https://www.startrekcontinues.com https://www.startrekcontinues.com

JackFr 6y ago
Those are AMAZING. How did I not know about this?

pozy 6y ago

Great man and an inspiration through Mythbusters. RIP Grant.

dageshi 6y ago

This is very sad, Mythbusters is just about my favourite tv series of all time.

hydrogenbonds 6y ago

I'm pretty sure that for most of these posts, this is how it goes for HN users: - no idea who this guy is, let's spend 5-10 minutes of my life to find out - hmm yeah, he did good - upvote But maybe we keep doing this for post after post, wasting time and learning stuff that won't help us achieves our actual objectives.

naavis 6y ago
Or maybe the person actually had an effect on many people here, and they are legitimately sad that he passed away?
sanitycheck 6y ago
I would guess that around 90% of HN's US users have watched Mythbusters, and probably 30-40% of users from elsewhere - which might be half the people reading this post. If you don't know it, I'd totally recommend it - especially the ones with Grant in (S4-13?) Anyway, I'm really sorry to hear this - seemed like a great guy and, as others have said, a fantastic role model.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  HNers should also watch him as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek Continues. It's a fan series that manages to perfectly recreate the original Star Trek, down to set lighting and acting style. It's truly a work of love.
rvz 6y ago
Of course that the majority of HN folks here know that Grant has had a major influence in their lives and engineering careers, so they will pay their respects here, which they should. My deepest condolences to Mr Imahara's family. Unfortunately on HN, it now seems to depend on some other things to be able to pay your respects to here. We lost Kobe Bryant (NBA basketball player) and some (including me) wanted to pay their respects here, but it was repeatedly flagged and censored immediately.
xsmasher 6y ago
I didn't understand why people cried when John Lennon died; they didn't even know him, right? Then when I heard Elliot Smith died and I had to pull over for a while and I got it.

giorgioz 6y ago

I'm deeply sorry for the loss of Grant having lost an engineer friend the same way. An engineer friend of mine passed away due to brain aneurysm few years ago. Higor was in his twenties and had just achieved moving to Dublin after managing to acquire an Italian citizenship through his Italian ancestors being from Brazil. I fantasize I will build a machine to extract his consciouness before the brian aneurysm saving him (but also causing the brain aneurysm). Being an atheist I guess that's my way to hope for a way to see him again. I miss you Higor

jorgenveisdal 6y ago

Such a truly good person

filmgirlcw 6y ago

Ugh. This one hits hard. I stopped watching MythBusters before he even left the show, but it was one of those shows we always watched in college and his robots were always the best. What a tragic and sad loss.

an-allen 6y ago

Grant Imahara’s curiosity, energy, and brilliance have taught millions of folks the unbridled joy of how to be bewildered by the world and overcome that with sober, rational, reason and scientific method. It gives me hope how the celebration of Grant front and center in my networks.

bjt2n3904 6y ago

https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215530496 https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215... This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he finished. Projects that will never be completed, now that their creator has died. Grant, and Myth Busters were an inspiration to me as a young engineer. He was barely my age on the show, but influenced an entire generation of future engineers. I checked his Twitter feed. Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today. The world lost a decent person, and a brilliant engineer. Nobody knows their time. That what I leave unfinished would only be personal trivialities, and not angry tweets. That I would be able to have that impact on the next generation.

slau 6y ago
It is eerie how much that looks like my workbench. I guess EEs are all the same.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  It's a neurological condition. We go to college to get a diagnosis.
  - 0-_-0 6y ago
    "Don't worry Timmy, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just an electrical engineer."
    - rbanffy 6y ago
      He had the knack https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw
  - pradn 6y ago
    From someone who gets giddy about exciting algorithms, languages, performance numbers - I suppose we're kindred spirits, though across the pond of the hardware-software divide. Glad the world has all sorts of people in love with all sorts of things.

ainiriand 6y ago

I hate this year. I am going to miss him even though I never met him he was kind of a friend.

pasticom 6y ago

It reminds me of an old podcast where the host lost a ton of weight and was healthy again but was complaining that for all the work he put in to be healthy, his body could just one day fail and he’d die.

vmchale 6y ago

Horrible.

indiantinker 6y ago

Super sad! It was due to Grant, Adam, and Jamie that I fancied making things from an early age. I used to do LEGO versions of their builds as a kid that helped me a lot to become a designer and engineer today. The kind of multi-disciplinary notion of life they professed was a key for me to approach my education. I still remember dubbed versions of their show in Hindi on Discovery and my parents allowing to watch it beyond TV as "Whatever is on discovery is good for kids" I resonated a lot with Grant as he was very simple and introvert-ish among the whole lot. This year is like a nightmare. RIP Grant :'(

victorbojica 6y ago

I've really liked Mythbusters. I grew up with their shows. I still think about their shows weekly. I'm really sad about what happened. Grant seemed (didn't get to know him) like a very nice guy and he really inspired me (along with the whole Mythbusters team) and as it appears, a whole lot of other people. Thanks Grant for your work and dedication! You won't be forgotten!

aquaticsunset 6y ago

This was not an expected headline to read this morning. I, like so many others, was shaped by Grant as a kid. It’s a sad day :(

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zxcvbn4038 6y ago

This will hit my kid hard, since he learned to work the TV his two favorite shows were Mythbusters and Popular Mechanics for Kids. When they dropped the B team and when they stopped producing the shows were probably his biggest introduction to the general impermanence of the world.

Unklejoe 6y ago

Damn. He was one of those people who you could just tell was a good dude. I grew up watching him.

BaldricksGhost 6y ago

Only appropriate that this has risen to the top of HN. RIP Grant.

brian_herman__ 6y ago

I wish we could get a black bar for this guy.

kleer001 6y ago
Why can't we? Sure he didn't write fundamental software back in the 70s, but he was inspirational for many of the users here.

ravenstine 6y ago

Grant's intelligence and creativity was always inspiring. This is very sad to hear.

antonzabirko 6y ago

Sounds like a corona-induced aneurysm.

RazvanS 6y ago

Sad news. I remember fondly watching Myth Busters show. RIP.

aivosha 6y ago

for all those talking about their benches: good job making this about yourselves ! why pass an opportunity, right ?

evgen 6y ago
Exactly. How dare they take a traumatic event and use it to think about what might link them to the victim; to consider experiences and habits you might share with the victim of this unfortunate event is selfish. Don't you all know that this is a time for self-serving finger-waging by ignorant scolds who are here to tell you what is and is not an acceptable format for sharing grief? "Grief does not change you, it reveals you." Would you like to know what I think it has revealed in this instance?
- aivosha 6y ago
  go fuck yourself
  - dang 6y ago
    Hey, please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how strongly you feel or how badly other commenters are behaving. It only makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

atum47 6y ago

My dad got us direct tv back in 2000. I watched a lot of MTV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel (where mithbusters was broadcasted for us, Brazil). I already had a taste for science and engineering, I use to love Beakman's World (when I was even younger). Is great to see how many people, like me, were inspired by people like Grant. He will be missed, for sure. You should see some of his videos in robot fight.

kahlonel 6y ago

Grant was my childhood hero, and one of a few people who inspired me to pursue robotics. RIP Grant. 2020 fucking sucks.

ezoe 6y ago

I also lost a friend who was very influential among us this year. The death was so sudden and guessing from his tweet before his death, it was probably cerebral apoplexy or similar sudden brain damage. If you have a friend not keep in touch of years, you should consider to have a little chat sometimes because you never knew he or you still alive tomorrow.

thrownaway954 6y ago

kerri said it best "i wish i had a time machine some days" :( it sucks getting old and seeing truly wonderful people pass. man i miss mythbusters. they all had such chemistry and it truly was a wholesome show. grant, kerri, adam, jaime and tory really became part of my life. rip grant... you have no idea how many people you inspired.

Astropop 6y ago

Awful death, blood flow issues in the brain tissue. RIP

Balgair 6y ago

Grant was an inspiration. The whole crew were, are. Their efforts pushed me along the path I am on and made my life measurably better. Grant was core to that. Grant made my life better. I got to meet him one at a Maker Faire. They say, never meet your heroes. Grant was the exception to that rule. Shaking his hand was everything I expected. He was kind to some rando and seemed happy that he was able to make a better life for some stranger he'd never met. I'm so grateful for his efforts. I am so grateful for his humor. I am so grateful for his joy. Thank you Grant.

staycoolboy 6y ago

I'm grateful for Grant, an engineer who isn't a billionaire-egomaniac and still stirred such a passion in so many. How often are engineers role models? At least in this part of history.

WhyKill 6y ago

Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.

Cirpop 6y ago

RIP! Another one of my childhood stars just gone like that...

hermitcrab 6y ago

very sad news. I loved Mythbusters, especially the ones with Grant, Tori and Kari. I still cringe when I think about that time Grant nearly disemboweled himself on camera.

jdofaz 6y ago

I didn't have cable so I rarely saw myth busters, but I was a fan of his for building the Geoff Peterson robot

knd775 6y ago

Where's his black bar?

kleer001 6y ago
Good question. IMHO the mods lean more heavily towards older more fundamental CS contributors. I think he def deserved the honor.