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Tombstone Blues
Earthsea
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 Posted - 18/03/2008 : 21:50:28
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It's just come through on BBC news 24, can't find anything about it on the net.
I loved his books, I remember reading 'Childhood's End' when I was 14, one of those books that made me see life in a different way.
Sad
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/03/2008 : 22:14:23
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I got a newsflash about it but was looking on the net as well. Love his books still ... Against the Fall of Night is a fantastic book. My favourite quote of his is about UFOs: "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."
there are quite a few newspaper reports |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Borninhove
Discworld
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Tombstone Blues
Earthsea
2186 Posts |
Posted - 19/03/2008 : 11:35:54
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I wondered how long it would be before someone brought this up'
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'On 26 May 2000 he was made a Knight Bachelor for his Services to Literature at a ceremony in Colombo. The investiture of the award had been delayed, at Clarke's request, since 1998 because of an accusation, by the British tabloid The Sunday Mirror, of paedophilia, which was, however, found to be baseless by Sri Lankan police and retracted by the paper soon after.'
Sad how people remember one accusation by one dodgy paper and don't remember that he was cleared and the paper apologised. |
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Borninhove
Discworld
1028 Posts |
Posted - 19/03/2008 : 13:40:53
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Well, just saying what our reaction was - that kind of accusation usually sticks in the mind regardless of the facts. Just have a look at the new(ish) Ben Elton book, Blind Faith, to see how hysterical people get over the subject. Sad indeed - and how many like me and the Mrs remember that and don't know about the acquital?
Just found a quote from Clarke that I liked:quote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Tombstone Blues
Earthsea
2186 Posts |
Posted - 19/03/2008 : 13:52:05
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That's Clarke's third law. The first two are:
1. 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.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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Anubis
Barsoom
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Posted - 19/03/2008 : 17:11:20
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To BiH and spouse:
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Mark Twain.
Just two of the scores of brilliant predictions ACC gave us:
(1) In 1945, the suggestion that satellites could be used as relays for messages spanning continents and oceans ... and that three of them would suffice, if strategically placed. What was seen as wild speculation became reality in August 1960, when the USA launched Echo 1.
(2) Then, in 1968, his filmscript 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film developed some of his important themes more fully; Marvin Minsky (one of the founders of modern Artificial Intelligence) was roped in for structuring the Hal component. |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 22/03/2008 : 00:07:25
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| I was never a fan, though I`d acknowledged his brilliance in the fiction area, and I don`t recall the `paedophile` bit at all. What bugged me was the way some of his fiction was interpreted by some as `probably` fact. Naughty. RIP old lad, anyway. |
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RIP Arthur C Clarke
