Great writer. Arthur Clarke dead at 90 today.

loved the movie by kubrick

Def Movie was awesome.

Clarke's most important scientific contribution may be in propagating the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays. He described this concept in a paper titled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in Wireless World in October 1945. The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honour.

He didnt patent the idea and subsequently wrote an essay "How I Lost a Billion Dollars in My Spare Time."