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Old 03-18-2008, 06:15 PM
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Arthur C. Clarke, Dead at 90

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/bo...nd-clarke.html
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don't be sad. the man was a paedophile!
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And 90 years old. He was gonna croak sometime soon.
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Also dead today: the director of The English Patient and the guy who played Captain Birdseye.


1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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He had a good run. RIP
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I am sorry that he died.

I am sorry to find out that he was a pedophile.

Did he do his time in prison?

Also, it's creepy to find out that a well known sci-fi author was also a child abuser.

Please tell me that Stephen King is normal.
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I am sorry to find out that he was a pedophile.

Did he do his time in prison?

Also, it's creepy to find out that a well known sci-fi author was also a child abuser.

Please tell me that Stephen King is normal.
He's pretty weird-looking, so maybe that's all that's weird about him.
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I am sorry that he died.

I am sorry to find out that he was a pedophile.

Did he do his time in prison?

Also, it's creepy to find out that a well known sci-fi author was also a child abuser.

Please tell me that Stephen King is normal.
He's an alcoholic who drinks as he writes but apparently that's considered quite commonplace? poor Stephen
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he denied being a paedophile, in the strict sense of the word, and the sunday mirror retracted its claims that he was one. i don't think he denied he liked teenagers and isn't the age of consent 13 in sri lanka or something?

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he denied being a paedophile, in the strict sense of the word, and the sunday mirror retracted its claims that he was one. i don't think he denied he liked teenagers and isn't the age of consent 13 in sri lanka or something?

i'm much more sad about minghella dying
ditto. 54 is a ripe old age and I'm sure he had much to offer yet.

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i'm much more sad about minghella dying
Why?
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Why?
well. because
rah-rah-rah thirty-mile-long cylindrical spaceship, blah-blah-blah lets go and have a look mr scientist, bloble-hoble-blobble what's your name again mr spaceship explorer man? yah-de-yah i don't know, shall we visit those interesting structures on the island in the cylindrical sea? ping-pong-ping ok after we've both had a wee-wee together. ooh coriolis effect!
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Of course though, Kubrick made the film.
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i mean, that's rendezvous with rama, not 2001
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Ah. Sorry. I saw coriolis effect and immediately thought...
*hangs head*
My bad.
Well then, nevermind.
So, his ideas were better than his execution.
He was what he was and he did what he did.
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He was what he was and he did what he did.
like hitler then
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