{"id":972,"date":"2008-04-03T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T05:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2008-04-03T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T05:12:41","slug":"more-tributes-to-sir-arthur-c-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"More tributes to Sir Arthur C. Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you undoubtably know, there have been many, many tributes to Sir Arthur C. Clarke in all forms of media.\u00a0 My own modest effort was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=959\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few\u00a0of these tributes, however, I think are especially noteworthy, and are the subject of this post.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a tribute from Yuri Artsutanov, including him singing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to Sir Clarke (in English yet!)<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-1pByC_15E4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This next YouTube effort is a tribute from his adopted homeland, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7QRas62F2Zs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"170\" src=\"\/media\/AstronomyMagazineLogo.jpg\"  height=\"49\" style=\"width: 170px; height: 49px\" \/>Jeremy McGovern from Astronomy Magazine&#8217;s Astronomy.com gives his tribute <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/asy\/default.aspx?c=a&amp;id=6763\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Mat Kaplan at The Planetary Society gives his (and others) thoughts <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/radio\/show\/00000281\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Mat&#8217;s show continues to be, IMHO, the best Science Internet\/podcast show out there.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re unaware of his shows, or just haven&#8217;t been listening lately, you&#8217;re missing a real treat.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/SpaceFrontierFoundationLogo.gif\"  \/>Finally, on July 19th, The Space Frontier Foundation will be hosting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space-frontier.org\/PressReleases\/2008\/20080321arthurcclarke.html\">&#8220;Arthur C. Clarke\u00a0Banquet&#8221;<\/a> at the Foundation&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space-frontier.org\/Events\/NewSpace2008\/\">NewSpace2008<\/a> conference in Washington D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you undoubtably know, there have been many, many tributes to Sir Arthur C. Clarke in all forms of media.\u00a0 My own modest effort was here. A few\u00a0of these tributes, however, I think are especially noteworthy, and are the subject of this post. The first is a tribute from Yuri Artsutanov, including him [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}