Sad News - Arthur C. Clarke dies

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"It is lovely to watch the coloured shadows on the planets of eternal
light."

And now he is.

Joseph T Major

"Dave Downing" wrote in message
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Who's this "aide" people keep mentioning?

"...an aide said" - I saw a post in one of the sci.space groups, with a link
to a blog that mentioned this - but nobody's named the "aide" or the source
of the 'news' - could they (the big media groups) be quoting the blog and
not be willing to say so?

It's a blog for crying out loud - even the blogger doesn't name his source!

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"It is lovely to watch the coloured shadows on the planets of eternal
light."

And now he is.

And in those days, giants walked among us.

--Damon, feeling rather older now

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Who's this "aide" people keep mentioning?

Rohan de Silva

See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/bo...l?pagewanted=1
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It's a sad day...
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Kevin Willoughby lid

Kansas City, this was Air Force One. Will you change
our call sign to SAM 27000? -- Col. Ralph Albertazzie

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Who's this "aide" people keep mentioning?

Rohan de Silva

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/bo...ewanted=1&_r=1
&hp

It's a truly sad day...
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Kevin Willoughby lid

Kansas City, this was Air Force One. Will you change
our call sign to SAM 27000? -- Col. Ralph Albertazzie

"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Who's this "aide" people keep mentioning?

Rohan de Silva

See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/bo...l?pagewanted=1
&_r=1&hp

It's a sad day...

If it's true, then it is indeed a sad day. He had an amazing mind; I've
only read one of his books - an autobiography and he was quite special in so
many ways - involved in early radar tests (the bio mentioned some of the
problems they were having); earliest SciFi writing was in his teens
(remember reading the story from the bio about getting his first stories
published).

All in all, 90's a pretty good innings for anyone, but it's always sad when
someone so significant dies.

I have a recording of him: he introduced the BBC radio adaptation of
_The Chrysalids_ for the BBC Home Service.

On Mar 18, 6:39 pm, Dave Downing wrote:
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Alas! Less than a month before the 40th anniversary of the premiere of
2001:A Space Odyssey.......

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:50 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
Dave Downing made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

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My thoughts and remembrances:

http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...visionary.html