Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

Sad news :( RIP

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

Truly a sad day, rest in peace Arthur.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

I'm, I had no idea of his age........ or that he was fading. What a legacy he left behind.
Respect.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

I hope he now has the answers to all the mysteries R.I.P

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

He nearly made it to 2010 R.I.P.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

sad loss r.i.p.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

My goodness yes - I hadn't realised :tu:

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

What was spcial about 2010?

Mayan Calander?

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

Sequel to 2001 (based on his short story, The Sentinel).

He will be missed - he and Robert Heinlein were my first intro to SF.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

duh slaps self on head.

Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
 

Synchronicity, or what?

NASA

"Swift normally detects about two gamma ray bursts per week. But March 19 was a special day. The satellite detected four bursts on that day, which is a Swift record for one day. “Coincidentally, the passing of Arthur C. Clarke the day before seems to have set the universe ablaze with gamma ray bursts,� says Swift science team member Judith Racusin of Penn State University in University Park, Pa."

Strangely enough, ACC wrote a short story called "The Star", where an Earth starship on a mission to investigate the causes of a supernova in a distant galaxy discovers the artifacts of a highly developed civilization, carefully preserved on the only planet that remains in orbit around the supernova. Knowing that all life would be wiped out when their sun flared into a supernova, this race of sentient beings left a record of who they were and what they accomplished.

The pictures, sculptures, music, and other relics of a very human-like race doomed to destruction depress the crew and investigating scientists, who are far from their own homes and lonely. What the narrator has learned but not yet communicated to the others is that the supernova that destroyed this civilization was the Star of Bethlehem, which burned brightly in the sky to herald the birth of Jesus Christ.