Arthur C. Clarke rides the space elevator to the sky

[in_the_annex]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Clarke's Third LawSir Arthur C. Clarke, one of the fathers of modern science fiction, has died today at age 90 in his home in Columbo, Sri Lanka. His main scientific achievement was the conceptualization of telecommunications satellites, and had a hand in the development

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[filmfatale]

A life well lived. RIP.

[admirabilia]

I read the news of this over someones shoulder on the go bus wednesday... The man was a bit of a monolith himself, i've been a fan since my grade 6 book report on '2001'.

Thanks for posting the 90th birthday message. Great stuff... its clear to me how enthusiastic he was about the prospect for science as a tool in its own right. He is totally on the ball about what the current progressive science scene,

I love sci-fi, for a lot of nerdy reasons but one of them is that for me its an escape to a place i probably won't ever reach, thats been landscaped with all sorts of awesomely efficient well designed technology...mmmm buttons!
... but it feels harder and harder these days (maybe just because i'm growing up too) to imagine a pristine future for humans traveling abroad in space... I wonder what kind of stuff he would be writing about were he just begining his carreer now.. oil crash proto-future type stuff...?

I think he was an exemplary dude.