Comments on Did Arthur C. Clarke Predict GPS?
'But as for details of frequencies and powers, I'll have to leave that to the experts to work out; I'll get on with my science fiction and wait to say -I told you so!' (Read
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"Considering he's the one that figured out the Geo-sync orbits currently in use, this is not all that surprising. Clarke was quite a visionary and Mathematician to boot."
(Dewtey 7/29/2010 7:17:40 AM) |
"No doubt - take a look at more than forty of Arthur C. Clarke's visionary ideas."
(Bill Christensen 7/29/2010 9:30:53 AM) |
"That passage also predicts sat-phones too.
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( 9/5/2010 1:18:20 AM) |
"I hadn't thought about it, but you're right; he says that "It might even make possible world-wide person-to-person radio" (with automatic dialing no less!)."
(Bill Christensen 9/5/2010 2:44:07 PM) |
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