gwax's rumblings

Arthur C. Clarke died today in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. I won’t even try to sum­ma­rize the amaz­ing things that Arthur C. Clarke has con­tributed to the world, I wouldn’t be able to do him jus­tice; if you care, ask wikipedia. Rest in peace Sir Arthur C. Clarke and thank you for all that you’ve given us.

I’ll leave you with Clarke’s three laws:

1. When a dis­tin­guished but elderly sci­en­tist states that some­thing is pos­si­ble, he is almost cer­tainly right. When he states that some­thing is impos­si­ble, he is very prob­a­bly wrong.
2. The only way of dis­cov­er­ing the lim­its of the pos­si­ble is to ven­ture a lit­tle way past them into the impossible.
3. Any suf­fi­ciently advanced tech­nol­ogy is indis­tin­guish­able from magic.

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