Arthur C Clarke talks about the Cassini mission

[TheDelboy9]

One of the greatest of his creationswas the hal 9000 series. May his memories live on..

[reinforcedpenisstem]

I hope he we can upload his personality into a computer one day. The DNA may be all that we need in time...

[buckfushes]

My computer, your computer IS the Monolith.

[BjornPalmen]

Well, we now know that here is no gateway on Iapetus but there is this equatorial ridge, maybe a ramp to launch satellites millions of years ago? It is 20 km high and badly attacked by falling meteors - but is it 1400 km long and built (!) exactly at the equator!

[NunuQuadros]

clark was a paedophile.

how cud you support this sick bastard and his sick books

[doomroe3]

and what truth would that be?

[DeadMockracey]

Arthur C. Clark still owes me poker money.

[necramericanomicon]

arthur said he dreamed of two big titans growing out of the back of iapetushie

for when dave bowman wanted to go slow dancing with hal 9000 after its cybersex change operation

daisy, daisy, give me your answer true...

[Wystandfp]

What a fabulous mind - and imagination. I'm sad he hasn't lived long enough to learn what lies in the hidden oceans of Enceladus or even Titan.

[StuC5]

I still remember the first time I read '2001'. Up to that time I knew of Iapetus only as the name of a Saturnian moon (more than most people knew, I guess.) The sequence in which it's explained to Dr Bowman that astronomer Cassini found Iapetus to be (inexplicably) 6 times brighter on one side of its orbit than on the other, thrilled me then and still does today. When Voyager approached Saturn I almost expected/hoped it would find that milky surface on Iapetus with the monolith in the middle.

[imaginenoreligion]

A great man.

[hulaqde]

now you can search to infinity,Arthur....see you on the Other Side...Open the Pods,HAL!

[SgtSARS]

Rest In Peace Sir Arthur.

[Rourba]

12/16/1917 to 03/19/08. He was a great science fiction writer,inventor, and futurist. Space odyssey is his best novel.

[Rourba]

12/16/1917 to 03/19/08. He was a great science fiction writer,inventor, and futurist. Space odyssey is his best novel.

[markpacker]

Arthur C. Clark is my hero and inspiration for novel writing.

[dinooney]

What will astronomy be without our dear Sir Arthur Clarke?

[CADAVERHUSK]

I like this man and his books.Good stuff

[robm1969]

Brilliant!!

[cockeye59]

Thanx Arthur... we still need your lessons. Hold out!

[jamesmorgandavies]

Oh gosh ... it's really him!

Damn - you just can't keep a good writer down!

Iapetus may be EVEN WEIRDER than that classic "2001" movie. I'd say a good old unmanned space-probe is obviously called for.

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

Its great to see Arthur again.

[scobum]

thanx. I agree, I remember before we went to the moon and we have learned much since then. also the ocean might be closest to what we might find on space with thermal vents. love this stuff :-)