To: Hacksaw
AC Clarke - very entertaining. Safe bets. By that I assume you mean overblown hack.
25 posted on
08/19/2006 7:37:19 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
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To: freedumb2003
""AC Clarke - very entertaining. Safe bets."
By that I assume you mean overblown hack."
You'd be wrong. You also owe much of the real world to Mr. Clarke. He was a communications engineer, and is the person who first suggested geosynchronous communications satellites. Once upon a time, they called it the Clarke Belt. Perhaps his best story, IMHO, is "Childhood's End."
242 posted on
08/20/2006 8:23:41 PM PDT by
Old Student
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