Arthur C. Clarke, inventor of satellite, visionary in technology, dead at 90
By Ryan Block 
posted March 18th 2008 5:55PM
posted March 18th 2008 5:55PM
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur, you'll be dearly missed.
Wonder if they'll send send his body/ashes up into orbit? Always sad when one of these great visionaries dies.
No they won't....they don't want the Navy to shoot it down.
J/K...I hope I can be that old when I die.
A true Master of Sci Fi. Can't wait for movies coming out base on his books.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke
damn, it would have been cool if they made 2061 before he died, Tom Hanks wanted to but never got around to it
Death... the final frontier
Actually, he did once mention sending DNA from his hair into space (to be discovered by alien races... dunno if it was meant to be a joke or not.
Very sad. Truly one of the great ones.
You know I honestly thought that he had passed years ago.
I used to watch the reruns of his "Mysterious World"(?) show from the 1970s on A&E, and he looked pretty old at that time.
Man, that is way tragic. I always had a bit of a fantasy to one day meet him.
-Scott
Tragic? He was 90. He had a good life.
He was my favorite writer all through high school. Childhood's End was my favorite of his works.
I was just about to post a comment about childhoods end. I always thought it should be an actual movie, and not some adaptation based on it.
Great books, great thinker!
I was lucky enough to meet him whilst having a cup of tea in the Imperial Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka back in 98. He was, as you can imagine, quite frail then but was obviously still as sharp as a hawk in that he spotted I was reading a Sci-Fi book - specifically something by Bruce Sterling.
Ended up sharing a cup of tea with him and talking about modern Science Fiction, cost of milk at home etc. I chickened out of asking for his autograph though - something I regret to this very day.
I think I will watch some Space Odyssey tonight.
Of course on the day of Vista SP1, gosh, it never seems like Microsoft's day.
Clarke was an amazing person, may he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace.
Arthur's television work was very dear to me, I used to watch his documentaries on The Discovery channel as a little man and I am convinced he has a big part in my current interests.
You will be missed.
90 or 91?
Truly, one of the most visionary person of our times.
He was probably too smart to believe in God, but amen nonetheless.
Blasphemer!
Now perhaps he knows whether there's a God.
Too smart?
Belief? Re-read The Nine Million Names Of God.
requiescat in pace
So, the headline says he was 90, the text says 91. Which is it?
Other news outlets are saying 90. Wikipedia has his birthday as "16 December 1917," so that'd make him 90.
CRAP!
A great shame. He will be missed!
Rest well smart guy.
My hero, both when I was younger and today. I'm not sure where he was on the whole death issue, but wherever he is, or isn't, I hope he is at peace.
One of the best british visionaries ever and not afraid to think of the unknown.
would have been nice to have met him
Look guys, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
i fail to understand the point of your comment. perhaps you are ignorant of his contributions to both literature and science? or just a dick?
It's a quote from one of his books, prick.
C'mon, m. Serious?
Oh M,
I thought we talked about letting your ignorance pwn you?
Your like a 3rd testicle. Fun to point and laugh at but ultimately useless....
best analogy ever. pwned
let's talk about the importance of quotation marks first, and then i'll concede to being pwned. it was a poorly chosen passage, under the circumstances.
Okay, I admit that I should have used quotation marks.
A very sad day indeed. My childhood reading consisted of novels from the greats: Carl Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and of course Arthur C. Clarke. Ah, maybe it's time to dust off some of his classics again: the crazy alien spaceship in "Rendezvous with Rama" or the Space Elevator in "The Fountains of Paradise". Brings back great memories of carefree summer days.
Speaking of RAMA, wan't there going to be a series of movies coming up soon?
u serious, ive always wanted to see what RAMA would look like on the big screen, it was an amazing series !
Rendezvous with Rama (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933/
yup, Morgan Freeman is going to play the captain, because he said like 8 years ago he wanted it to be turned into a movie, and so hes making it himself.
http://www.revelationsent.com/site/index.html
sad to see Arthur C. clarke go, i only just discovered his books.
The octospiders were pretty badass. I wanna see them on the big screen.
Well said hp540. He will be sorely missed.
That's terrible. I've been re-reading all of his books the last few weeks. I just finished today. That is a little creepy.
What a great scientific mind and storyteller he was. A rare combination.
You should have kept reading. Perhaps by finishing his works, you finished him.
jeebus. that was kind of mean, i just finished reading the Odyssey series, Rendezvous with Rama, Songs of distant planet earth, and a couple others like a week ago
A fitting end to an extraordinary individual. Thank you Arthur C. Clarke for everything you accomplished in your life. I didn't know you, but I wish I had gotten to meet one of the most significant inventors that made this modern technological day that I live in. May you rest in peace.
GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE
Very sad, but wow, at the bottom of the wikipedia article, it says he died on March 19. He even died in the future!
Mr. Clarke lived in Sri Lanka. Local time it probably was the 19th.
His writings definitely impacted me during my teen years. I'm quite saddened to see him move on.
He lived in Sri Lanka.