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Sir Arthur C. Clarke, R.I.P.

From the eponymous web site:

Sir Arthur C. Clarke Dies

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, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed. Clarke died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. "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," Chase said.

That's about all there is to the announcement, but it lives here.
Sir Arthur dropped off the grid for us a few years ago, some time after the last of his 2001: A Space Odyssey sequels. We never understood the physics, but we always thought his predictions were fun, even if they didn't work out.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 ? 19 March 2008). Requiescat in pace

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).