A legend passes.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:31 am
by Porkinator
This guy was awesome and excited my imagination before I understood the pictures in Penthouse.
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertai ... 3220080319RIP Arthur C Clarke
Re: A legend passes.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:22 am
by myxxplyxx
old school science fiction master passes
he had a good long ride
Re: A legend passes.
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:14 pm
by Houdini
Yup great guy with amazing vision of the future. He was credited as the first person to conceptualize satellites in geosynchronous orbit for the purpose of communication. The measurement of that orbit is called the Clark orbit after him. He had that idea in 1945! Amazing guy!