On Mar 19, 7:50 pm, "Chris.B" wrote:
A benign great mind with the ability to make us believe almost
anything without attempting to control us.

That rare being who was never corrupted by the power he wielded.

A living transporter of minds, inspiration, ideas and dreams has
returned to his planetary dust.

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.