RIP Arthur C. Clarke

[wiegeabo]

Just saw this at CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke.ap/index.html

 

[demento]

Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.

Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30 a.m. after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.

Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956, lured by his interest in marine diving which he said was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space.

"I'm perfectly operational underwater," he once said.

Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer.

He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.

He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1723547,00.html

 

[Rando Aces]

thats not good for anyone.

 

[demento]

Beat me by a millisecond.

RIP, Sir Arthur.

 

[DV8]

RIP, Arthur

 

[bored]

I suppose I should have looked for this before I posted another thread.

 

[Whirlysplat]

Sri Lankan young boys should feel much safer....Allegedly! I always found the fact he wrote "Childhoods end" ironic!

 

[Noir]

RIP..

Loved his work..
Esp. Rendezvous with Rama.

 

[Hudson]

I already thought he was dead.

 

[Whirlysplat]

So did I. Weird!

 

[C.F. Kane]

Rest well, Art.

 

[Morg]

RIP Arthur C Clark

 

[batnkevlar]

Sri Lankan young boys should feel much safer....Allegedly! I always found the fact he wrote "Childhoods end" ironic!

Yeah I heard that rumor too... my family's from Sri Lanka, and my dad told me about it... I thought it was funny...

 

[Hudson]

Yeah I heard that rumor too... my family's from Sri Lanka, and my dad told me about it... I thought it was funny...