{"id":1773,"date":"2008-03-19T01:11:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/19\/end-of-the-odyssey\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:03:41","slug":"end-of-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/19\/end-of-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest minds and authors of the 20th Century just died. Arthur C. Clarke was very well known for some of his highly acclaimed books (think about <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> and the collaboration with Stanley Kubrik on the movie with the same name). Some of them were only known to Science Fiction fans (<em>Rendez-vous with Rama<\/em>, <em>The Fountains of Paradise<\/em>, for example).<\/p>\n<p>But Sir Arthur C. Clarke was also the author of significant steps for science like the observation that <em>geostationary satellites<\/em> would be the practical solution to many telecommunication issues. I can vividly remember my reading of <em>Interplanetary Flight; an introduction to astronautics<\/em>, where in 1950 he stated very clearly concepts like the <em>multi-stage rocket<\/em> or the <em>geostationary satellite<\/em> and why they should be prefered to other technical solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The old man (born on 16 December 1917) was living in Sri Lanka where he appreciated the leisure of all-year-long scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p>Science Fiction can no longer be the same after he left us.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V56Lv4w8M9c&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V56Lv4w8M9c&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V56Lv4w8M9c\">YouTube link<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Arthur C. Clarke died at the age of 90 from respiratory complications linked to the post-polio syndrome that forced him into a wheelchair for his last years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest minds and authors of the 20th Century just died. Arthur C. Clarke was very well known for some of his highly acclaimed books (think about 2001: A Space Odyssey and the collaboration with Stanley Kubrik on the movie with the same name). Some of them were only known to Science Fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,27,18,25,26,61,35],"tags":[594,593,598,597,596,600,538,599,595],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-cinema","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-film","category-nature-and-global-warming","category-sciences","tag-594","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-geostationary-satellite","tag-rama","tag-rendez-vous-with-rama","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-sri-lanka","tag-stanley-kubrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}