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19 Mar 2008, 7:26 pm

This thread is to commemorate the writer Arthur C. Clark, most famous for the book and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.



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19 Mar 2008, 8:18 pm

RIP :(


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19 Mar 2008, 8:25 pm

Thanks for the adventures Mr. Clarke



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19 Mar 2008, 10:01 pm

Count me among the carbon-based bipeds who mourn his passing. Time to dust off the Rama novels again.



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20 Mar 2008, 11:09 pm

One of his books i like is called The Songs of Distant Earth. Humans have had to go from Earth it got destroyed by the Sun going supernova. it's set past that on a diffrent planet. He will live on in thought and print :D :D



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22 Mar 2008, 6:20 am

didnt miss him , dont like space odyssee 2001 , was a movie we had to watch with school in a media class


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28 Mar 2008, 11:32 pm

Popularmechanics.com honored him with an article.


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