Arthur C. Clarke, engineer, author and visionary has died.
He was good.
Another one gone.
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Arthur Clarke, author of a number of important science fiction books, member of the British Interplanetary Society, co-inventor of marvelous technologies, and accomplished scuba diver, has died at the age of 90, in his long time home of Sri Lanka.
My favorite book of his was Childhood's End,…
Pretty cool. Via Afarensis.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.
Which science fiction writer are you?
I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.
Which science fiction writer are you?
PZ made me do it.
He had a good long run, and although I think his later books were awful and the flaws of his earlier ones were colored over by my own youth, there's no denying he was an influential science fiction writer. Arthur C. Clarke died today in Sri Lanka.
Stunning Gamma Ray Burst Explosion Detected Halfway Across Universe
ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2008) A powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye. [truncated]
"... GRB 080319B was one of four bursts that Swift detected, a Swift record for one day. 'Coincidentally, the passing of Arthur C. Clarke seems to have set the universe ablaze with gamma ray bursts,' said Swift science team member Judith Racusin of Penn State University in University Park, Pa."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080321093110.htm