Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 - RIP

From Yahoo! News:

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Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90

By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.

**snippage**

Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey," Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer.

He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.

He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s.

On the Net:

The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation: http://www.clarkefoundation.org

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