December 16, 1917 was born Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke made an enormous contribution, not only in literature but also in science, the popularization of space flight. His idea of ​​creating a system of communication satellites in geostationary orbit ensured the creation of the second half of the XX century, almost all global communication systems, including the Internet - so that you are reading this thanks to Arthur C. Clarke,% username%.





Organization chart of global communications via satellite, published Arthur C. Clarke in 1945, was implemented in the second half of the last century . Геосинхронная orbit was named in honor of science fiction - Orbit Clark. Nine years after the publication of this article Clarke wrote a letter to the Director, Department of Science of the US National Weather Service with a proposal to use satellites to predict the weather, the idea later implemented.



The idea of ​​a space elevator popularized by Arthur C. Clarke proposed in the work «Фонтаны Paradise ». Previously, this idea was expressed in the article N. Artsutanov in "Komsomolskaya Pravda" dated July 31, 1960 and Clark learned about the idea of ​​an album of drawings "Wait for us, stars" Alexei Leonov and artist Sokolova, who gave the author Leonov.



Modern science is developing in accordance with the so-called «тремя laws Clark », set forth in his book" feature of the future. "

The First Law: If honored, but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. If he says that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
Second Law: The only way to discover the limits of the possible - leave these limits, in the impossible.
Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Blockquote>
 

One of the most famous works of Arthur C. Clarke was a collaboration with Stanley Kubrick to create a cult film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Served as the basis for a film selected Kubrick story "All", and after Clark wrote the script based on the novel of the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."





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