RIP Arthur C. Clarke
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Finally an RIP thread about someone I've heard of...
- mikotondria30
Ah bless him - a giant among men, an astounding vision this man had - he will be talked of in 100 years from now....Thanks, Arthur - you stretched many minds.
- utopian0
250 children died in Iraq today, but who the fuck cares they were nobody!
- hold me...madirish
- none of them were visionariesLlyod
- no they didn't.********
- that's an entirely different question, utopian.********
- Maybe in advanced societies, everyone will get a long obituary.AndyRoss
- Yeah, well Iraq doesn't give a fuck Arthur C. Clarke dies. Can we not have this pretentious shit every time.ETM
- what ARE you talking about ?mikotondria3
- ernexbcn0
RIP Arthur.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
- ********0
Thank you, Arthur. RIP.
- Point50
Sri Lanka huh?
- CyBrain0
One of the best sci fi writers ever. Maybe the best. This man was brilliant on many levels.
- ********0
my favorite futurist
RIP
- ********0
I loved all the Rama books, still so vivid in my mind. I wish I could live in Sri Lanka and wear a sarong for the rest of my life. Of course the civil war is a major issue - maybe the Jersey shore.
- ********0
This is not a celebrity cult. ACC gave us the script for "2001". Not sure about that raining-frog poltergeist series in America, but anyway ACC is responsible for most of my nightmares. I hope he rests in peace.
- dr_pangloss0
Another Giant Dies... so it goes... rip
- 5timuli0
Today is a bad day.
- spifflink0
He also pretty much came up with the concept for satellite and satellite based communication.
- Bluejam0
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
good bye mr clarke
- babaganush0
Yeah but he wasn't just keen on black holes in outer space...the guy was a fucking paedophile- THAT also shouldn't be forgotten.
- he was cleared.
http://news.bbc.co.u…Bluejam - and what if he was, having a different sexual preference is not a crime, acting upon it is..vrmbr
- he was cleared.
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It shouldn't be "forgotten" that the Sunday Mirror is full of shit (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worl... and you shouldn't believe everything you read on the toilet wall.
