writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
18-03-2008, 22:10
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writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
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18-03-2008, 22:12
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
An amazing visionary, RIP...
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18-03-2008, 22:13
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
RIP!
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18-03-2008, 22:21
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
good innings RIP
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18-03-2008, 22:23
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
Very, very sad. A legend
RIP.
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18-03-2008, 22:24
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it is hard to express the effect this man's writing has had on me, over the years - I hope he has found it 'full of stars', at long last - RIP
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18-03-2008, 22:25
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
The man who thought of geostationary satellites ... amongst other things.
His was a great contribution to humankind.
I wonder if they're going to shoot his ashes up in a rocket.
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18-03-2008, 22:27
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
Three in one day...
First Captain Birds Eye, then Anthony Minghella, & now the legendary Arthur C Clarke... 
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18-03-2008, 22:27
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
A very sad day indeed. Probrably one of the greatest writers of SCI-FI and as mentioned previously a visionary of the 20th\21st century.
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18-03-2008, 22:48
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There aren't many writers left from the Golden Age of SF...now one less. I remember him alongside Asimov, Heinlein and Sturgeon. Sad he never lived to achieve his ambition to travel in space - but he leaves behind the concept of the geostationary communications satellite. I just hope the next generation will remember his contribution while they're downloading HD-quality movies. 
Ironic he never patented the concept - he might have ended as one of the world's richest men. Oh well - his work at least will never be forgotten. Perhaps when lunar missions are resumed, someone could erect a monument to him in, say, the Tycho crater. Something in black, with dimensions in the ratio 1:4:9...(if you don't know where that comes from, you haven't read him!)
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18-03-2008, 22:50
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
RIP.
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18-03-2008, 23:16
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
Sad to hear this news. He has been a part of my life since I discovered Science fiction in my early teens.
My memory of him is of him walking along a beach in Sri Lanka whilst he introduced one of his TV series - Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World -if I remember correctly.
If there is a life after this one then I hope he is either soaring amongst the stars and maybe calling in to visit his asteroid or swimming in his beloved ocean.
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18-03-2008, 23:20
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
Just seen this on the BBC RSS feed, very sad news indeed.
A legendary man that I owe many happy (and thought provoking) hours to.
My favourite lasting thought is that the coincidence that applying a Ceaser shift of 1 to H.A.L gives I.B.M may not have been the coincidence that it seemed
My thoughts are with his family and friends.
RIP Arthur.
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19-03-2008, 00:32
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Re: writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
Something in black, with dimensions in the ratio 1:4:9...(if you don't know where that comes from, you haven't read him!)
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A Geostationary black slab seems appropriate.
RIP Arthur.
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19-03-2008, 00:34
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R.I.P Arthur thx for many years of thought and debate.
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