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  • #16
    Let's not forget he envisioned the geostationary satellite in 1945! 17 years before Telstar...
    I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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    • #17
      RIP.

      All three of them are gone now. First Heinlein, then Asimov and now Clarke.
      Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
      "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
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      • #18
        Hats off for the man

        May his spirit dwell in the cosmos forever.
        "post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
        "I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon Miller

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        • #19
          RIP

          Co-Founder, Apolyton Civilization Site
          Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
          giannopoulos.info: my non-mobile non-photo news & articles blog

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
            RIP.

            All three of them are gone now. First Heinlein, then Asimov and now Clarke.
            You forgot Stanislaw Lem
            bleh

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            • #21


              RIP
              Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
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              • #22
                RIP.

                Libraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
                I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. Sure

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                • #23
                  Great stories

                  RIP
                  Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
                  Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
                  I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking Man

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                  • #24


                    RIP

                    He was certainly one of the big ones.

                    Though, Rama Revealed is a bit weird
                    With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                    Steven Weinberg

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                    • #25
                      I read Childhood's End and & The Wind from the Sun.

                      I recalled Childhood's End as being very good.

                      RIP!
                      bleh

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                      • #26
                        Good author and I liked his tv shows from the 70's and early 80's.
                        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                        • #27
                          If you don't like reality, change it! me
                          "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                          "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                          "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                            • #29
                              RIP One of the authors that introduced me to SF along with Asimov.
                              <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
                              I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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                              • #30
                                NO!
                                Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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