Cole, it is a poetic license. Not meant in any way to imply that Prof is dead. Legacy stands for what he has already accomplished, and gives a sense of history in the making at this point in time.
We can look back at the very early 90s when Prof Koplin was already working on a concept and technology meant to explore and conquer one of the last frontiers of this planet: the stratosphere.
What Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)has done for underwater exploration one day will be what Koplin will be remembered for, when it comes to the stratosphere. One of the father(s) of this exploration technology and adventure.
And he will be remembered for the many and important applications of what first of all should be a "peaceful" technology.
Allowing people to communicate, and share into the potential of this technology to study sun spots, cosmic rays, climate change, biodiversity, what lays under the ice in Antarctica, the geophysics of tectonic plates, telluric movements and earth crust displacement theories,in brief planet earth and the science that goes with it.
I just hope that GTEM is the right vehicle for mankind to accomplish some of the above. And believe the TAO partnership is the best news for a long time.
