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Saturday, March 22, 2008


Sir Arthur C. Clarke died last week.
In 1945, while a radar technician with the RAF, Clarke originated the notion of communications satellites, describing in most particulars the machines which control modern telecommunications; he was later to regret that he had not patented the idea (though, as a serving officer, he could not in any case have done so).
I'm disappointed that the Telegraph fails to point out that it's called a geostationary, or "Clarke" orbit.

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