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Do you have any ACC's Mysterious Universe [aka Mysterious World] fans? He was quite the devotee of mysteries and the unexplained. Of his last three wishes he wanted, evidence of ET, and a solution to the energy problem [an option to oil], as numbers one and two on his list. That's my man! Thanks much for posting his farewell, waht. I bet that had he known what's going on in the ...

Just thought I point out that an amazing coincidence has occurred after Clarke passed. http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...explosion.h tml The burst was detected by Swift at 2:12 EDT on March 19 and was one of five gamma-ray bursts detected that day, the same day that famed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke ...

March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur C. Clarke, the U.K. science- fiction writer and futurist visionary best known for the novel adapted for the film ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' has died. He was 90. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...GFQ&refer=h ome Clarke had an enormous influence...

Originally Posted by binzing The name sounds soo familiar, what did he do? Other than write stories as Evo said. Watch his farewell video and read the wiki page about him. Really he...

That's too bad. IMO 2001 is one of the greatest of all-time. __________________ Formerly "Yomamma"

Originally Posted by arildno Well, I rate Ray Bradbury higher than Heinlein, so for me, only two of the big three have passed away yet. I loved Ray Bradbury, "A sound of thunder", "...

Arthur C. Clarke died DisplayAds("Right1"); March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur C. Clarke, the U.K. science- fiction writer and futurist visionary best known for the novel adapted for the film ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' has died. He was 90....

I hadn't realised that what I quoted in another thread was from 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 ...

Farewell Arthur Clarke. He was a visionary. __________________ The ether of general relativity therefore differs from that of classical mechanics or the special theory of relativity respectively, in so far as it is not 'absolute', but is determined in its locally variable properties by ponderable matter. Albert ...

RIP AC. I enjoyed his stories, which fed my imagination. __________________ Getting the 'right' answer is important, but understanding how to solve the problem (i.e. how you get the right answer) is just as important, if not more so. Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to all Peoples, each day, every day, ad infinitum. - ...