British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
Arthur C Clarke who predicted in the early 1940's that if you placed a satellite in geostationary orbit global communications would be possible
without his input satellite communications would not have started as soon as it did the geostationary orbit was named after him now known as the Clarke belt,
He came to fame in 1968 when a short story called The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick.
RIP you will be sadly missed
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BBC NEWS | UK | Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
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