Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 next week — so go leave him a birthday greeting.
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On March 19, the prolific British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90. At his 90th birthday party, in December, Clarke made three wishes: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial…
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY,ARTHUR C. CLARKE!
I'm personally indebted to Mr. Clarke for so many reasons: his profound optimism, particularly about our race as a unified system and our inevitable future contact with extraterrestrial life, has bolstered my ability to think globally; his unshakable commitment…
Arthur C. Clarke is 90 today. He has three wishes:
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday Sunday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.
Like many…
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,…
I think he has a book coming out this month too.
Clarke's work on communication satellites and geosynchronous satellites surely qualifies him for the Nobel Prize in either the Physics or Peace categories.
Hell, why not the Literature Prize as well? That'd put Linus Pauling in his place.
Hmmm, maybe. I'm still annoyed with him for the crappy ending of 3001 The Final Odyssey ;-)
Nice :) I just left him my greeting. He's one of those people, like Carl Sagan or David Attenborough, who inspired me when I was a kid, and still do.
And I keep being amazed that he's still around. He just keeps on going. I'm certainly not complaining; he's proof that not all good people die young.
#2: Clarke didn't invent the geostationary orbit. He only suggested using it for communication satellites. The first to compute the orbit was Herman Potočnik, a little known Slovenian engineer.
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/potocnik/index.htm
Didn't Clarke write an admiring letter to wingnut Donald Luskin? And isn't he a member of the Super Adventure Club?
When I was quite young, I read some stories in sci fi compilations that I could never get out of my head. I couldn't remember who wrote them - until I discovered Arthur C. Clarke, and realized that I did know him, all along, and had already read much of his work.
...Above all, we have a simple remedy for the offensive yet harmless genetic plague that afflicted so many of the colonists. Perhaps it has run its course - but if not, we have good news for you. People of Earth, you can rejoin the society of the universe without shame, without embarrassment.
Heh, heh. :-)
Hah, Clarke's got a long way to go to beat Jack Williamson, who was writing right up until the end, at >100 years old.
"Sri Lanka must be conducive to longevity."
Yep, for Sir Arthur it's an endless source of youth.
#2: Clarke didn't invent the geostationary orbit. He only suggested using it for communication satellites. The first to compute the orbit was Herman Potočnik, a little known Slovenian engineer.
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/potocnik/index.htm