jaehwan
Mar 20th, 2008, 12:59 AM
Don't know if any of you are sci-fi fans, but I saw this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031900875.html?referrer=emailarticle
I just happened to see the little text at the bottom of the Washington Post page. For some reason, no one else thinks it important enough to report.
Anyway, Childhood's End is an AMAZING book. And did you know this?
Clarke also was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.
Granted he had a science degree, but it's pretty amazing that a fiction writer conceptualized the geosynchronous orbits that our cell phones use.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031900875.html?referrer=emailarticle
I just happened to see the little text at the bottom of the Washington Post page. For some reason, no one else thinks it important enough to report.
Anyway, Childhood's End is an AMAZING book. And did you know this?
Clarke also was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.
Granted he had a science degree, but it's pretty amazing that a fiction writer conceptualized the geosynchronous orbits that our cell phones use.