No way!

An amazing man.

RIP.

Arthur C. Clarke was a rare talent, extremely gifted in both technical and artistic realms. He was one of the few teachers who could weave together knowledge and poetry in such a way as to convey a profound sense of wonder.

Clarke and Sagan were two of my greatest heroes when I was a young boy, now both of them are gone.

2001 is perhaps the greatest screenplay ever.

RIP Arthur C. Clarke.

I was just watching him on a documentary on 2001. He was wearing a t-shirt that said "I invented the satellite and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".

Respect.

BadComrade wrote:Great... Who's next, Steven Hawking?

There is no god.

If there's one person who could prove it....

R.I.P.

BadComrade wrote:Great... Who's next, Steven Hawking?

There is no god.

This doesn't seem like one of those deaths. The guy did amazing things and lived to be 90. That's as much as any of use can hope for...

I used to have a movie magazine when I was in grade school that showed how they created the special effects for 2001, back in the days before computer graphics, before filmmakers were allowed by NASA to shoot scenes aboard the "vomit comet", even before high-resolution images of the outer planets existed.

Kubrick and his crew themselves designed and built many ingenious devices to create the amazing effects used in the film.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/2001a/page1.html
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/2001a/page2.html
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/2001a/page3.html

I remember reading Childhood's End for our sci-fi class in high school. That story stays with me still, moreso than 2001: A Space Odyssey in a lot of ways.

RIP

i thought he had already been dead...very sad to hear this either way...


so unfair that there's not more people like him around...