http://www.mylot.com/w/keywords/arthur+c+clarke.aspx MyLot Discussions About arthur c clarke en-gb http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1835091.aspx Having an Internet presence is a must for modern authors because of the nature of the increasingly digitized world we live in. Not all authors embrace cyberspace equally, however -- for some, the Internet is just another place to market. What authors who lived before the Internet became mainstream do you think would have really embraced new technologies and which do you think wouldn't really have gotten excited about them? I think most classic sci-fi and speculative authors would have been fascinated with the Internet if they had had a chance to see it -- for instance, I can easily imagine Jules Verne blogging about science, geography, history, and the writing process. One of the later fathers of sci-fi, Arthur C. Clarke, even made a YouTube video at age 90, shortly before his death. On the other hand, I think someone like Shakespeare might feel dissatisfied with an online world increasingly composed of two minute videos, 120 character Twitter messages, and several paragraph blog posts. I think the Bard would prefer bringing grand projects to life on the stage or quite possibly in film rather than try to appeal to those with short attention spans online...I bet he'd be a good online marketer, though, and it is true that he was quite a versatile artist so I may be selling him short. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:11:02 GMT echomonster http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1627614.aspx Just typed in a response (quite politely) to someone's question, and was told it used objectionable language under Mylot's T&C. Had to spend 10 minutes figuring out exactly what I'd done to upset it, and then I realised. I'd mentioned an author who wrote an awful lot of science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and won numerous awards and critical acclaim for doing so, who'd come in the top ten of any list of scifi writers ever, along with people like Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C Clarke. His stories have become major selling movies, including things like Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report. He's influenced generations of writers since. He was also a bit bonkers towards the end, but that's by the by. If you haven't figured it out, his first name was Philip, Middle Initial K, and his surname rhymes with 'Wick'. And that was the objectionable part. Tch, honestly ;) Has anyone else had this problem here? Typed something perfectly innocent, and ran straight into the brick wall of the language filters? Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:16:57 GMT Wolfechu http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1600991.aspx What are your top ten "Great American Novels"? In your opinion, because you have read and enjoyed them, not because a website gave you the information. You have personally read the books. Mine are: 1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. 2. Dune by Frank Herbert. 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. 4. A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. 5. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. 7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. 8. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. 9. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. 10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway. I have read these novels over and over and enjoyed them immensly every time. So, how about you. What are your top ten "Great American Novels? Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:05:07 GMT shopgirl http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1440463.aspx I was sadden to read this this evening. I looked but didn't see any thing amoung my friends so I thought I'd post it. This was a great man, a great scientist and a great writer. He was involved in the developement of radar and came up with the idea of communication satallites. Here is the artical I read for you folks. Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, has died at age 90, an associate said. Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. He died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said. "He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit," he said. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick shared an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for "2001." The film grew out of Clarke's 1951 short story, "The Sentinel," about an alien transmitter left on the moon that ceases broadcasting when humans arrive. As a Royal Air Force officer during World War II, Clarke took part in the early development of radar. In a paper written for the radio journal "Wireless World" in 1945, he suggested that artificial satellites hovering above fixed spot above Earth could be used to relay telecommunications signals across the globe. He is widely credited with introducing the idea of the communications satellite, the first of which were launched in the early 1960s. But he never patented the idea, prompting a 1965 essay that he subtitled, "How I Lost a Billion Dollars in My Spare Time." Clarke wrote dozens of novels and collections of short stories and more than 30 non-fiction works during a career as a writer that began in the 1950s. He served as a television commentator during several of the Apollo moon missions and co-wrote a 1970 account of the first lunar landing with the Apollo 11 crew. So, have any of you read any of his books? Did you like them? What was your favorite? [u]Dolphin Island [/u] was probably my favorite. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:22:31 GMT ElicBxn http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1443575.aspx I know there are so many others that have affected where modern fiction, especially sci-fi, is today, but between these two (My favorite 2 Sci-Fi writers for as long as I can remember), who had the biggest impact? Who had the biggest impact on you personally? With Clarke's recent passing, alot of stories have focused on his importance in both literature and science, but when asked he would always praise Isaac Asimov as far more important than himself. How do you feel? Can you even choose? Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:18:22 GMT heathcliff http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1440377.aspx Author Arthur C. Clark best known for the above titled work has passed away. He was 90 years old. He was a wonderfully talented writer. Are there any other fans out there? Another of my favorite books is "The Hammer of god" Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:41:27 GMT ersmommy1 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1155691.aspx Synchronous Classifications Synchronous Orbit - An orbit where the satellite has an orbital period equal to the average rotational period (earth's is: 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.091 seconds) of the body being orbited and in the same direction of rotation as that body. To a ground observer such a satellite would trace an analemma (figure 8) in the sky. Semi-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) - An orbit with an altitude of approximately 20,200 km (12544.2 miles) and an orbital period of approximately 12 hours Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) - Orbits with an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,240 miles). Such a satellite would trace an analemma (figure 8) in the sky. Geostationary orbit (GSO): A geosynchronous orbit with an inclination of zero. To an observer on the ground this satellite would appear as a fixed point in the sky. Clarke Orbit - Another name for a geostationary orbit. Named after the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Supersynchronous orbit - A disposal / storage orbit above GSO/GEO. Satellites will drift west. Also a synonym for Disposal Orbit. Subsynchronous orbit - A drift orbit close to but below GSO/GEO. Satellites will drift east. Graveyard Orbit - An orbit a few hundred kilometers above geosynchronous that satellites are moved into at the end of their operation. Disposal Orbit - A synonym for graveyard orbit. Junk Orbit - A synonym for graveyard orbit. Areosynchronous Orbit - A synchronous orbit around the planet Mars with an orbital period equal in length to Mars' sidereal day, 24.6229 hours. Areostationary Orbit (ASO) - A circular areosynchronous orbit on the equatorial plane and about 17,000 km(10557 miles) above the surface. To an observer on the ground this satellite would appear as a fixed point in the sky. Heliosynchronous Orbit - An heliocentric orbit about the Sun where the satellite's orbital period matches the Sun's period of rotation. These orbits occur at a radius of 24.360 Gm (0.1628 AU) around the Sun, a little less than half of the orbital radius of Mercury. Special Classifications Sun-synchronous Orbit - An orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that the satellite passes over any given point of the planets's surface at the same local solar time. Such an orbit can place a satellite in constant sunlight and is useful for imaging, spy, and weather satellites. Moon Orbit - The orbital characteristics of earth's moon. Average altitude of 384,403 kilometres (238,857 mi), elliptical-inclined orbit. Pseudo-Orbit Classifications Horseshoe Orbit - An orbit that appears to a ground observer to be orbiting a certain planet but is actually in co-orbit with the planet. See asteroids 3753 (Cruithne) and 2002 AA29. Exo-orbit - A maneuver where a spacecraft approaches the height of orbit but lacks the velocity to sustain it. Orbital Spaceflight - A synonym for Exo-orbit. Lunar transfer orbit (LTO) - Prograde Orbit - An orbit with an inclination of less than 90°. Or rather, an orbit that is in the same direction as the rotation of the primary. Retrograde orbit - An orbit with an inclination of more than 90°. Or rather, an orbit counter to the direction of rotation of the planet. Almost no satellites are launched into retrograde orbit because the quantity of fuel required to launch them is much greater than for a prograde orbit. This is because when the rocket starts out on the ground, it already has an eastward component of velocity equal to the rotational velocity of the planet at its launch latitude. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:08:39 GMT hendraktp http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1155687.aspx Telecommunication satellite is a kind of satellite (later explained) that’s very close to our daily life. Arthur C. Clarke was one of the pioneers of this field; he fostered the idea of a worldwide satellite system. Echo I is a passive communication satellite launched in 1960. It was not equipped with a two-way system yet, and it was rather functioned as a reflector. Not very long after then, the Telstar I, an active communication satellite, was launched in 1962, with receiving and transmitting equipment, and was an active participant in the reception-transmission process. Telstar created the world’s first international television link. Therefore, Mirabito & Morgernstern in their book, The New Communication Technologies: Applications, Policy, and Impact, 5th edition, said that Telstar had paved the way for today’s communication spacecraft. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:05:41 GMT hendraktp http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1155684.aspx The first known fictional depiction of a satellite being launched into orbit is a short story by Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon. The story was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly, starting in 1869.[1][2] The idea surfaces again in Jules Verne's The Begum's Millions (1879). In 1903 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) published Исследование мировых пространств реактивными приборами (The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices), which is the first academic treatise on the use of rocketry to launch spacecraft. He calculated the orbital speed required for a minimal orbit around the Earth at 8 km/second, and that a multi-stage rocket fueled by liquid propellants could be used to achieve this. He proposed the use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, though other combinations can be used. During his lifetime he published over 500 works on space travel and related subjects, including science fiction novels. Among his works are designs for rockets with steering thrusters, multi-stage boosters, space stations, airlocks for exiting a spaceship into the vacuum of space, and closed cycle biological systems to provide food and oxygen for space colonies. He also delved into theories of heavier-than-air flying machines, independently working through many of the same calculations that the Wright brothers were performing at about the same time. In 1928 Herman Potočnik (1898–1929) published his sole book, Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-motor (The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there. He conceived of a space station in detail and calculated its geostationary orbit. He described the use of orbiting spacecraft for detailed peaceful and military observation of the ground and described how the special conditions of space could be useful for scientific experiments. The book described geostationary satellites (first put forward by Tsiolkovsky) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays. In 1945 the English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917) conceived of the possibility for mass artificial communication satellites in his Wireless World article.[3] Clarke examined the logistics of satellite launch, possible orbits and other aspects of the creation of a network of world-circling satellites, pointing to the benefits of high-speed global communications. He also suggested that three geostationary satellites would provide coverage over the entire planet. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:02:34 GMT hendraktp http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/30829.aspx Hi friends Michael Crichton is undoubtedly the best <a href="http://www.computersciencemba.com" alt="Computer Science MBA" target="_blank">science</a> fiction author with the all time hit Jurassic park and many other books.What do u think?? Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:55:35 GMT restlessguy