Arthur C. Clarke: Difference between revisions

He is often credited with inventing the geostationary communications satellite, although in fact he did not originate the idea.

 

# When [[The Professor|a distinguished but elderly scientist]] [[Lecture as Exposition|states that something is possible]], he is [[Chekhov's Classroom|almost certainly right]]. When he states that [[Weirdness Censor|something is impossible]], he is [[Arbitrary Skepticism|very probably wrong]].

# The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

* [[No Poverty]]: In ''The City and the Stars.''

* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Was famously hard to access in his later years.

* [[Technology Marches On]]:

** If you read his collected short stories, many of his 50's stories involve his [[Author Appeal]] communications satellites. The difference between his stories and the eventual reality? His stories always feature ''manned' Space Stations as the communication/broadcast satellites.