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Old March 28th 08, 09:01 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
Chris.B
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Default OT - Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

On Mar 23, 1:13 pm, "
wrote:

Take away his belief in monkeys and a strict adherence to lack of
facts and all you are left with is an obvious idea about geostationary
orbits. A logical conclusion that only requires the escape velocity
and orbital period of any celestial object.

It's not as if he invented any hardware to do the job.

But then I found his work arduous and unsatisfying. Asimov was a
little more childish and rather inclined to crescendos of counter-
attacking but ultimately they were of the same genre of losers that
provided nothing.


Get over yourself. :-)