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. :-)
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