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Arthur C. Clarke's gift to science | Ben Macintyre - Times Online
March 21, 2008 Arthur C. Clarke's gift to science Science fiction has always been wellabove the Earth. (He was dissuaded from patenting this idea by a lawyer, who insisted it was too outlandish to be takenin the mind is the inspired though sadly never-attempted idea of keeping hundreds of cats in an insulator with a deviceClarke and other science fiction pioneers is the simple idea that fiction can inspire fact; that making up vivid storiesfact Clarke didn t lose a cent, since you can t patent an idea, and since most people know this one can speculate on whatthe normal course of research, ie it required an original idea, it could have been a long time before a sufficient intellectreceiving "The Exploration of Space" in 1957 for my ninth birthday. A real giant. We shall not look upon his like again.
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