murrays 0 #1 March 18, 2008 Arthur C. Clarke has passed away.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydemon2 0 #2 March 18, 2008 Wow I cant believe he died.Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone! I like to start my day off with a little Ray of Soulshine™!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,563 #3 March 18, 2008 An amazing visionary. RIP Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeflyChile 0 #4 March 19, 2008 QuoteArthur C. Clarke has passed away. "My God, it's full of stars!" RIP Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jheadley 0 #5 March 19, 2008 QuoteWow I cant believe he died. I can, he was really old! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #6 March 19, 2008 Quote Wow I cant believe he died. I can't believe he was still freakin alive! "Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance, others mean and rueful of the western dream" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #7 March 19, 2008 Something about his books really make them stick in my head - maybe it's just that the ideas are so original. Songs of Distant Earth was a pretty good novel, although Clarke angered a lot of Sci-Fi fans by stating both in the forward and the novel itself that extra-terrestrial life does not exist. His rationale is that if E.T. did exist, we would have discovered them by now. In the article linked in the first post states that geo-synch orbits are called Clarke Orbits. Maybe some people do, but I worked in astronautics for some years, and helped launch near-earth, polar and geo-sync orbits, and I never once heard the latter called a Clarke Orbit.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #8 March 20, 2008 QuoteSomething about his books really make them stick in my head - maybe it's just that the ideas are so original. Songs of Distant Earth was a pretty good novel, although Clarke angered a lot of Sci-Fi fans by stating both in the forward and the novel itself that extra-terrestrial life does not exist. His rationale is that if E.T. did exist, we would have discovered them by now. In the article linked in the first post states that geo-synch orbits are called Clarke Orbits. Maybe some people do, but I worked in astronautics for some years, and helped launch near-earth, polar and geo-sync orbits, and I never once heard the latter called a Clarke Orbit. Well they should refer to them that way. They were his idea. He wrote about them before the space age began. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #9 March 20, 2008 The attached image from joyoftech.com says it the best....-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #10 March 20, 2008 QuoteQuoteSomething about his books really make them stick in my head - maybe it's just that the ideas are so original. Songs of Distant Earth was a pretty good novel, although Clarke angered a lot of Sci-Fi fans by stating both in the forward and the novel itself that extra-terrestrial life does not exist. His rationale is that if E.T. did exist, we would have discovered them by now. In the article linked in the first post states that geo-synch orbits are called Clarke Orbits. Maybe some people do, but I worked in astronautics for some years, and helped launch near-earth, polar and geo-sync orbits, and I never once heard the latter called a Clarke Orbit. Well they should refer to them that way. They were his idea. He wrote about them before the space age began. Another one from Joy Of Tech regarding satellites... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
