Arthur C. Clarke Joins the Cosmos At Last, Dead at 90
Posted By Tammara On March 18, 2008 @ 5:16 pm In Obituaries | Comments Disabled
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The visionary Science Fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke passed away today in Sri Lanka. As a teenager, I think I read every single one of his books. I loved getting lost in his geeky, dreamy space oriented worlds.
Most people know of him because co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick. It was based on Arthur’s book, “The Sentinel”, which was written in 1948. In the movie, his HAL character was based on an actual demonstration he witnessed in the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility with his scientist friend, John Pierce.
One of the cool things about Arthur C. Clarke was that he envisioned telecommunications satellites way before they were possible. In 1945, he wrote a paper about it which was published in Wireless World. The geostationary orbit is called the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honor. Well Arthur, your body may be gone, but your vision lives on…
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