Arthur C. Clarke has gone to the great geostationary obrit in the sky.

By Ian | March 18, 2008

Via CBC we have the sad news that visionary has passed away at age 90. Best known as a Science fiction writer for the novel of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, he wrote many, many, other fact and fiction novels.  I am most thankful for his short stories, (in particular :The Nine Billion Names of God) He also conceptualized geostationary satellites (known as Clarke Orbits) for use in telecommunications.

Also much quoted are his “Clarke’s three laws”:

  • “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
  • “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
  • “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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