20 Mar 08
Yea I just saw that on the paper today, it is an awful shame, I think he was certainly a big influence on me deciding to study science in the first place. Although I did end up doing geology, which isn't quite fountains of paradise grade stuff.....😕
Anyone have a personal favourite prediction/idea of his that we can see today. He was almost prophetic at times. He should have patented his Ideas for comms sattellites.
20 Mar 08
Originally posted by MexicoHe said in the article, as you may know, he wrote about the subject, INVENTED the subject of geo-synchronous satellites in 1945! But his lawyer advised him not to try to patent the idea because it was so far fetched. Another reason to hate lawyers, eh. He later wrote and article called 'the history of Comsat's, or how I lost a billion in my spare time'!
Yea I just saw that on the paper today, it is an awful shame, I think he was certainly a big influence on me deciding to study science in the first place. Although I did end up doing geology, which isn't quite fountains of paradise grade stuff.....😕
Anyone have a personal favourite prediction/idea of his that we can see today. He was almost prophetic at times. He should have patented his Ideas for comms sattellites.
20 Mar 08
Originally posted by FabianFnasI read with rapture, his first novel, I didn't know at the time he was only 20, Childhood's end. Another was City and the Stars. Just contemplating being a billion years in the future when I was 13 was awe inspiring. And of course the 2001 series. What a talent! He will be sorely missed. He was writing a final novel when he died, I wonder if anyone will finish it or how close to the end it was.
He gave us much... He inspired us much...
20 Mar 08
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Originally posted by sonhouseAre you sure he was 20? My copy indicates it was first published in 1953, making Clarke about 34.
I read with rapture, his first novel, I didn't know at the time he was only 20, Childhood's end. Another was City and the Stars. Just contemplating being a billion years in the future when I was 13 was awe inspiring. And of course the 2001 series. What a talent! He will be sorely missed. He was writing a final novel when he died, I wonder if anyone will finish it or how close to the end it was.
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