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- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -0/+26Arthur C. Clarke will truly be missed. He was a literary giant and a true visionary.
My hat is off to you sir. Rest in peace. - gothicform, on 03/21/2008, -0/+21His stuff on satellites and their uses for the communications business has been used as prior art in court cases against companies which tried to patent these ideas. Had he done so himself, he would have been one of the richest men alive (every GPS, satellite tv broadcast and so on would be paying him royalties) but instead like Tim Berners Lee he didn't care and simply wanted the advancement of mankind.I think that's why we should miss him the most. Few people put the love of humanity over the love of money.
- HeavyWave, on 03/21/2008, -1/+21Do you even need a reason for that?
- StevieJanowski, on 04/02/2009, -1/+143. The Communications Satellite - Seriously. I guess I should have known that but he is the man
- kcornwell, on 03/21/2008, -0/+12The light of Other Days
The best science fiction book I have ever read. Co-authored by Clark and Baxter.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ejQ6Oc-VKJQC&dq=t ...
If you have any interest in Sci-Fi, this is the book to get. - nutniqs, on 03/21/2008, -0/+8Rendezvous with rama
- hauntedchippy, on 03/21/2008, -0/+8"The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons."
- Willravel, on 03/21/2008, -0/+6I can think of a lot more than 5. Sands of Mars, Childhood's End, Earthlight, and A Fall of Moondust? I mean jeez. The man was a genius.
- Plotinus, on 03/21/2008, -0/+5He didn't do that. He swore repeatedly that it was pure coincidence and that had he noticed before release he would have changed it.
- Owwmykneecap, on 03/21/2008, -1/+6Coming up with HAL by dropping down one letter on the alphabet on each initial of IBM, is such sweet serendipity.
:) - inactive, on 03/21/2008, -0/+4Most of the nerds I know are very wealthy loserssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
- Chainheart, on 03/21/2008, -0/+4Why?
- hauntedchippy, on 03/21/2008, -0/+4As a person or as an author? If the latter then fair enough, each to their own. But if the former then please elaborate.
- Niightwitch, on 03/21/2008, -0/+4Childhood's End is my favorite piece of science fiction.
- tehbored, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3Why only five?
- nullcodes, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3Arthur C Clarke did not invent the communications satellite. He invented the concept of a telecom relay network.
The idea and math behind geostationary satellites was published decades before him by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Herman Oberth and others.
The idea of communications transmit via a geostationary satellite was written about and publish by Herman Potocnik.
Excerpt from his 1928 book "The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor" at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4026/ ... :
"Everything even down to the smallest detail on the Earth's surface could be detected from the space station using such powerful telescopes. Thus, we could receive optical signals sent from Earth by the simplest instruments and, as a result, keep research expeditions in communication with their home country, and also continually follow their activities. "
Also a chapter at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4026/ ... "Providing for Long Distance Communications and Safety" talks about radio communication being being better than optical. - MrMongoose, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3I happen to know quite a lot about the subject, I took a class in college that focused on this movie in particular. There's nothing to really 'get' by watching it, alot of it is pretty open to interpretation. The novels are much more clear as to what exactly is going on. however, you can find which people are hipster douches by watching the movie with them and listening to them try and explain every shot and how it was important to cinema, when they're really just regurgitating what every high-profile film critic has said about the movie. Particularly about the bone-spaceship cut.
Although there are the people who say "that was boring, nothing really happened, what was that ***** at the end?" Yes, those people are probably dumb. - gmanolatos, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3a few more: http://maxim.com/Thingsthatwouldntexistwithoutarth ...
- hauntedchippy, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3I enjoyed it thoroughly. Much as I am enjoying their other collaboration "A Time's Odyssey".
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3He is a contributor to Radar too. He was a problem solver for the radar program. His solutions are what we use today.
- 4d669, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2His third law will live on forever. Funny how a person dies, the legacy dies afterwards and a tiny quote survives.
- estvir, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2Science fiction authors receive little acknowledgement for things like this. Another author I know of who has had real world influence from his ideas are E E 'Doc' Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith#Influence ...
And that doesn't cover everything, in some of his novels in the sort of foreword about the author it mentions other things he has been credited with. - dacheetah, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2They means nerds (i.e. normals) and those freaky people that are not nerds.
- cheez124, on 03/21/2008, -1/+3Ah 2001, how smart people get it, and how dumb people don't. you really see how you friends see things after you watch that movie with them.
- MrMongoose, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2Pretty much every sci-fi author includes one space-sex scene in one of their books. Larry Niven even made it a major plot point of the 'Ringworld' series (unfortunately). But yeah, I was a little freaked-out when I saw the first mention of a space-boner in '2010'.
- sfacets, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2A nerd is someone who feels the need to insult other people n the internet because he/she/it doesn't have the guts to do so in real life... or is that a troll?
- sfacets, on 03/21/2008, -1/+3But aren't Nerds normal, or the norm nowadays?
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -1/+3Did I seriously just read the phrase, "nerds and normals alike?" Come on...
- charlietuna, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2As I recall the characters in every book of his that I read always decided to indulge in an orgy at one point or another. He liked the Sci-fi sex.
- Smills, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2Wow, someone has issues...
- Vostok, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2Spammers are loserssssssssssssssssssssssss
- fieldhockey44, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2You insult nerds, and yet you have a Digg account...
- Vostok, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2If I ever build a spaceship (this is possible, I'm an aerospace engineer) I will name it after Sir Clarke, his books have been my inspiration since I was a boy and he deserves the recognition.
- dankenstein, on 03/21/2008, -0/+2My favorite quote from his diary:
November 20. "....Back at the Chelsea, phoned Ike Asimov to discuss the biochemistry of turning vegetarians into carnivores." - KraxSintax, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the link to the diary. Fascinating stuff.
- MrMongoose, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1First true sci-fi book I ever "read" (book on tape for some random reason) when I was about 12. Only later would I start reading his other works and realize that that book I had enjoyed so much when I was a kid was by the same author.
- MutedAudio, on 03/21/2008, -0/+12010 was just about the first peace of Sci-FI to scare me.
Alone, in the dark. "Look behind you".
*shivvers* - MrMongoose, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1Agreed. One monolith was scary. Millions of monoliths pouring out of a giant monolith turning Jupiter into a sun? Holy balls.
- Meowbiusfox, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1He was a bad-ass among men.
- hoovcluck, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1same thing i thought when i read the headline
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1I'm sure there were quite a few people that disliked him. The question remains in my thoughts, are those people disliked by anyone? Did you like what he left behind?
- dacheetah, on 03/21/2008, -0/+1Nerds don't log into MySpace. Anyone who would call themselves a nerd considers MySpace an atrocity.
- nullcodes, on 03/21/2008, -2/+2Arthur C Clarke did not invent the communications satellite. He invented the concept of a telecom relay network.
The idea and math behind geostationary satellites was published decades before him by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Herman Oberth and others.
The idea of communications transmit via a geostationary satellite was written about and publish by Herman Potocnik.
Excerpt from his 1928 book "The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor" at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4026/ ... :
"Everything even down to the smallest detail on the Earth's surface could be detected from the space station using such powerful telescopes. Thus, we could receive optical signals sent from Earth by the simplest instruments and, as a result, keep research expeditions in communication with their home country, and also continually follow their activities. "
Also http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4026/ ... "Providing for Long Distance Communications and Safety
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- JackSrenton, on 03/21/2008, -2/+1nerds need to go outside and stop logging onto Digg to insult people.
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -3/+01. You don't know bill gates.
2. You don't know Steve Jobs
Have a nice Gay day. - inactive, on 03/21/2008, -3/+0There the same arnt they.
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -11/+4The Sri Lankan teenage boys won't miss him.
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