Arthur C. Clarke has died...

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This is really sad news. I was literally thinking today about how old he must be by now and I must get round to planning to a trip to see him in Sri Lanka. I was going to enquire about what his visiting arrangements are, and decided I would finally get round to doing it next year at the latest. I guessed he might possibly make it to 2010, but I guessed wrong...

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ManaByte said:
Fail on so many levels. :(

Reminds me of the dumb kid who walked into Ray Bradbury's panel at Comic Con a few years ago, asked why the room was packed to see "some old dude talk", and then asked "who the fuck's Ray Bradbury?".
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:lol

Kids these days...
 
SantaC said:
who?

RIP anyway
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How can there be so much failure in such a short post.
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Just told some friends about this, we all enjoyed his work so much, specially Childhood's End. He had a great life, and was undoubtedly a genius.
 
Clarke was my introduction to Sci-Fi in about fifth grade, and he made me a lifelong fan.

2001 series, Rama series, The Hammer of God, Richter 10... these books helped form my formative years.

My hat is off to you, sir.
 
Well, I'm not really sad. One of the great writers of our time and I'm very glad to see he lived to a ripe old age :)

He'll be remembered very fondly.
 
This was a triumph. I'm leaving a note here, huge success.

Great man, great author. I think it's more important to be in awe of such a great and long life, than mourn its loss. An old man dying is no tragedy, and his writing will live on for generations.
 
One of the few famous persons I can say I genuinely feel sad to hear he died. I know he lived long and happy life, but it just feels somehow wrong and defeating to think that he's now dead :(
 
industrian said:
I'd have to argue and suggest Philip K. Dick, but both of them are chillin' out in the same place now.

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Well if Clarke was right he'd be chilling in the ground and enjoying non existence. If Phillip K. Dick was right who the fuck knows where he is because he went fucking crazy.

Bummer Clarke didn't get to meet aliens though, that was one of his last wishes.
 
I've only read his collarborative work with Stephen Baxter, but I'm saddened by his passing. As an offer of respect I'm going to the bookstore tomorrow and buying one of his works.
 
Loved his work so much growing up. I even picked up Red Mars (a Kim Stanley Robinson novel) solely on the fact that it had his blessing on the cover.
 
I remembering playing Rama (old Sierra adventure game), and you would die horribly and then Arthur C. Clarke would show up and explain it... I bought the books because of the game, but never finished them. I really should do that.
 
Feral Youth said:
Old British men dying in Sri Lanka.

Hmm, Hmmm

I hear the children are lovely there.
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What the fuck is wrong with you. Sick fuck.

Pay the man some respect. He's lived in Sri Lanka since the 50's. He was Sri Lankan.
 
EternalDarko said:
What the fuck is wrong with you. Sick fuck.

Pay the man some respect. He's lived in Sri Lanka since the 50's. He was Sri Lankan.
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No.


Clarke, 80, widely regarded as a visionary and author of the celebrated 2001: A Space Odyssey and some 80 other books, was quoted as saying in the interview published in London's Sunday Mirror that having sex with children was all right.

''Once they have reached the age of puberty, it is OK... It doesn't do any harm,'' said Clarke, who has lived in Sri Lanka for 40 years.

"I am trying to think of the youngest boy I have ever had because, of course, you can't tell it here. I think most of the damage comes from the fuss made by hysterical parents afterwards. If the kids don't mind, fair enough,'' he was reported to have said in the interview which was conducted at his house.


Now I find it hard to believe that someone would make this up, but yes these are unproven claims.

Truth or lie I won't be getting all weepy eyed or angry for that matter about someone I've never met.

I like his books. You obviously looking at your "emotionally charged" post would kill people who didn't.

I wonder who the sick one really is. Try and develop the idea that people who create great works in the minds of some can be as flawed as those who don't really do much of anything really.
 
Feral Youth said:
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Clarke, 80, widely regarded as a visionary and author of the celebrated 2001: A Space Odyssey and some 80 other books, was quoted as saying in the interview published in London's Sunday Mirror that having sex with children was all right.

''Once they have reached the age of puberty, it is OK... It doesn't do any harm,'' said Clarke, who has lived in Sri Lanka for 40 years.

"I am trying to think of the youngest boy I have ever had because, of course, you can't tell it here. I think most of the damage comes from the fuss made by hysterical parents afterwards. If the kids don't mind, fair enough,'' he was reported to have said in the interview which was conducted at his house.


Now I find it hard to believe that someone would make this up, but yes these are unproven claims.

Truth or lie I won't be getting all weepy eyed or angry for that matter about someone I've never met.

I like his books. You obviously looking at your "emotionally charged" post would kill people who didn't.

I wonder who the sick one really is. Try and develop the idea that people who create great works in the minds of some can be as flawed as those who don't really do much of anything really.
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clearly you don't realize that not only has Clarke and his camp denied making those quotes, but the newspaper that first reported them came up and said that it never happened like a week after he did?
 
I know it is corny but I had a really bad period in my life, and read like a fiend because reading was the only thing that could clear my mind from the stuff I was going through, and it was almost all Arthur C. Clarke works. So I feel like he sort of saw me through this period and although I never met him, I'll miss him. A Great Man.
 
Feral Youth said:
bullshit
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Yes, lets all immediately believe every piece of bullshit we read in the tabloids and the internets. and lets also forgot that it was stated to be false by the paper who published it.
 
Is that from the blu-ray? You don't have a 1080p res version do you?
Would love to use it for my background but the resolution is out of proportion.
 
esbern said:
clearly you don't realize that not only has Clarke and his camp denied making those quotes, but the newspaper that first reported them came up and said that it never happened like a week after he did?
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I always forget the fact everybody admits to their crimes.
 
EternalDarko said:
Yes, lets all immediately believe every piece of bullshit we read in the tabloids and the internets. and lets also forgot that it was stated to be false by the paper who published it.
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So because the paper said it was false you believe it? Actually they retracted their claim. I don't recall them outright saying it was false. Afterall it was the Sri Lankan police who went to the Mirror in the first place, and who then turned around and said it was all a lie.

Don't worry exactly the same thing happened with Matthew Kelly.

It's NEVER true when it happens outside of Great Britain. Mr Paul Gadd aka Garry Glitter was unfortunate enough to get caught with child porn in the UK and then fled to Vietnam and then to Cambodia. Of course the stories you hear about him are true. Even though he also denies it. He isn't so popular so it's good for the press to rip him to bits.

No wonder Judges, Police and Teachers and directors of NHS hosiptals can get away with the crime. You'll only believe that people can be Paodophiles if they have no status in the community whatsoever.
 
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