Google Privacy Exec. Dies in Nepal Earthquake.

[Trik'Stari]

Confirmed late yesterday, head of privacy for GoogleX and Google adventurer Dan Fredinburg was kill as a result of head trauma during the Nepal Earthquake.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sophia-bushs-ex-dan-fredinburg-dies-from-nepal-earthquake-avalanche-2015254

Dan Fredinburg has died at age 33. The Google exec, who previously dated Chicago P.D. actress Sophia Bush, was killed after a Nepal earthquake trigered a Mt. Everest avalanche on Saturday, April 25. Fredinburg's sister confirmed the news on his official Instagram account.

"This is Dan's little sister Megan. I regret to inform all who loved him that during the avalanche on Everest early this morning our Dan suffered from a major head injury and didn't make it," she wrote Saturday. "We appreciate all of the love that has been sent our way thus far and know his soul and his spirit will live on in so many of us. All our love and thanks to those who shared this life with our favorite hilarious strong willed man. He was and is everything to us. Thank you."

Very sad, sounds like he was a nice guy.

There are no adequate words. Today I find myself attempting to pick up the pieces of my heart that have broken into such tiny shards, I'll likely never find them all. Today I, and so many of my loved ones, lost an incredible friend. Dan Fredinburg was one-of-a-kind. Fearless. Funny. A dancing robot who liked to ride dinosaurs and chase the sun and envision a better future for the world," Bush, 32, wrote Saturday.

"He was one of my favorite human beings on Earth. He was one of the great loves of my life. He was one of my truest friends. He was an incredible brother, a brilliant engineer, and a damn good man," she continued. "I'm devastated and simultaneously so deeply grateful to have known and loved him, and to have counted him as one of my tribe."

[NeatSquidYT]

wow. That was hard hitting from his sister

[gojira]

1,800 others had fallen, too. They were probably nice people as well.. Not to take the seriousness off of this event, but has anyone caught this article? http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/04/24/did-a-ufo-fly-up-near-the-erupting-volcano-in-chile/"a horse shaped UFO"

[Trik'Stari]

1,800 others had fallen, too. They were probably nice people as well.

Very true. Would have said more but for some odd reason I can't get the cursor below the second quote box, even when editing.

[Unlikelyjoker]

This is sad.

But what about the other people? are we just going to ignore them

[VerticalDiscussions]

This is sad.

But what about the other people? are we just going to ignore them

Power and Reputation.... these people deserve as much respect as that Engineer and honestly any sister would say the same for each one of the dead humans.

[Trik'Stari]

This is sad.

But what about the other people? are we just going to ignore them

As I said, I couldn't add any more because I couldn't move the cursor below the second quote box. Anything else I would have written would have been inside that quote box. Not sure why.

[The_Strict_Nein]

1,800 others had fallen, too. They were probably nice people as well.. Not to take the seriousness off of this event, but has anyone caught this article? http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/04/24/did-a-ufo-fly-up-near-the-erupting-volcano-in-chile/"a horse shaped UFO"

 

Volcano's release an intense amount of heat and ash into the atmosphere. Those kind of things colliding with air can set of sparks and lights, similar to that.

[blackadder]

I heard about this on the bbc a few hours ago. this is a startling amount injured and dead already.

just more info

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32470731

[Trik'Stari]

Volcano's release an intense amount of heat and ash into the atmosphere. Those kind of things colliding with air can set of sparks and lights, similar to that.

That last picture though....goddamn.

"Damn nature, you scary"

 

Seems like a lot of odd geological activity happening this week.

[The_Strict_Nein]

That last picture though....goddamn.

"Damn nature, you scary"

 

Seems like a lot of odd geological activity happening this week.

 

Isn't this how 2012 started

 

Mother Nature woke up 3 years too late.

 

Keep your eyes on Yellowstone, is all I'm saying

[Trik'Stari]

Isn't this how 2012 started

 

Mother Nature woke up 3 years too late.

 

Keep your eyes on Yellowstone, is all I'm saying

I read an article about that yesterday, some of the things they said didn't add up right to me. Supposedly the current magma chamber is bigger than it was during the previous eruption (the one a few million years ago), but if it did erupt would be a smaller eruption.... Doesn't sound right at all.

[Speedbird]

RIP in piece.

[The_Strict_Nein]

I read an article about that yesterday, some of the things they said didn't add up right to me. Supposedly the current magma chamber is bigger than it was during the previous eruption (the one a few million years ago), but if it did erupt would be a smaller eruption.... Doesn't sound right at all.

If the magma chamber is more spreadout then the pressure would also be spread. More magma would come out, but the height/spread of the eruption would be less

[Guest]

I'm torn between sadness over death and amusement over the discovery that Google apparently had a 'privacy exec'.

[jaggysnake57]

1,800 others had fallen, too. They were probably nice people as well.. Not to take the seriousness off of this event, but has anyone caught this article? http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/04/24/did-a-ufo-fly-up-near-the-erupting-volcano-in-chile/"a horse shaped UFO"

 

the incedent in napal is tragic but this is a tech fourum and as such, news articals are tech related.....its not a reflection of the people here its just how it is

[Trik'Stari]

If the magma chamber is more spreadout then the pressure would also be spread. More magma would come out, but the height/spread of the eruption would be less

Hadn't thought about it like that. In my mind, "more magma = more heat = more energy overall" etc.

 

Update: Powerful 6.7 magnitude aftershock just hit. Death toll has been updated to approximately 2,169. Very tragic situation. Possible that entire small villages buried by landslides.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/26/aid-starts-to-arrive-in-nepal-as-quake-kills-nearly-2000/

 

Mother nature is a b*tch

[MoonSpot]

1,800 others had fallen, too. They were probably nice people as well.. Not to take the seriousness off of this event, but has anyone caught this article? http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/04/24/did-a-ufo-fly-up-near-the-erupting-volcano-in-chile/"a horse shaped UFO"

 

Wow, left field much?  What does Chile have to do with Nepal though?  They are on opposite ends of the planet. 

Also, I personally am unfamiliar with theblaze.com but after a cursory inspection they've quickly found their way to my list of sites to ignore.

 

This is the first I'm hearing about this earthquake, just woke up, pretty horrific news.

[Trik'Stari]

Wow, left field much?  What does Chile have to do with Nepal though?  They are on opposite ends of the planet. 

Also, I personally am unfamiliar with theblaze.com but after a cursory inspection they've quickly found their way to my list of sites to ignore.

 

This is the first I'm hearing about this earthquake, just woke up, pretty horrific news.

Indeed it is. And The Blaze is just another biased news site, started by Glenn Beck. No different than salon.com (socialists), CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc. All just as biased as the next.

 

Although they do occasionally pick up stories that you won't see anywhere else. (college students being denied the right to free speech, black people being harassed for being conservative, women being harassed for being conservative, governmental abuses, etc.)

[cesrai]

RIP in piece.

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He was a brilliant engineer I think.

[Voids]

It's always sad when someone passes away but Dan probably worked extremely hard to get were he was and for it to end many years too soon seems like a waste of talent. Sometimes life can be very cruel. RIP

[Pomfinator]

I don't know what's worse, the sadness that this man is dead, and that he should be mourned.  Or my bewilderment that Google has a privacy executive.

[Inkz]

They had a privacy department?

[RagnarokDel]

Whenever I read something about a big company executive dying this is what I think about.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoRXhS7vlU

[Snadzies]

That last picture though....goddamn.

 

That honestly looks like something I'd see in Hollywood and I'd think they were exaggerating for dramatic effect.

Absolutely insane.