{"id":526,"date":"2007-02-09T02:20:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T08:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2007-10-08T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T05:36:18","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-on-the-space-elevator-and-star-trek-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clarke on the Space Elevator (and Star Trek and other things)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/ArthurCClarke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ArthurCClarke.jpg\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"\/media\/TheFountainsOfParadise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/tn_TheFountainsOfParadise.jpg\"  \/><\/a>My all time favorite Sci-fi author is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkefoundation.org\/\">Sir Arthur C. Clarke<\/a>.\u00a0 I do believe I&#8217;ve read every story\u00a0he has written and am eagerly awaiting the completion and release of his &#8220;last novel&#8221; (The Last Theorem).\u00a0 His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fountains-Paradise-Arthur-C-Clarke\/dp\/0446677949\/sr=8-1\/qid=1171008015\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-6009896-6233604?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Fountains of Paradise<\/a> was what introduced me (and countless others) to the concept of a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a tribute to Star Trek and, as part of that, a general greeting to all of his fans.\u00a0 You can find both of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantigravity.com\/blogs\/73\/Arthur-C-Clarke-on-Star-Trek.html\">here<\/a>, at the American Antigravity blog.\u00a0 It has a great opening line;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friends, Earthlings, ETs &#8211; lend me your sensory organs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Arthur Clarke discusses the Space Elevator and the Space Elevator Games at the XPrize Cup.\u00a0 We also learn that as\u00a0the inventor of the satellite telecommunication industry, he\u00a0received the &#8220;astronomical sum of 15 pounds sterling&#8221; for his efforts.\u00a0 He needed a better attorney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A fine read from a real visionary.\u00a0\u00a0Sir Arthur\u00a0Clarke turns 90 this year, on December 16th.\u00a0 We should be marking this event with nearly the same enthusiasm as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurisnight.net\/2007\/index.php\">Yuri&#8217;s night<\/a> is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the thumbnails to view larger versions)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(07OCT07 &#8211; Update &#8211; I stand corrected.\u00a0 Sir Clarke&#8217;s birthday is on December 16th, not the 17th as I had originally posted.\u00a0 I apologize for the error)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My all time favorite Sci-fi author is Sir Arthur C. Clarke.\u00a0 I do believe I&#8217;ve read every story\u00a0he has written and am eagerly awaiting the completion and release of his &#8220;last novel&#8221; (The Last Theorem).\u00a0 His Fountains of Paradise was what introduced me (and countless others) to the concept of a Space Elevator. A couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}