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<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/entertainment/l/54774/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (16)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/entertainment/l/54774-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/entertainment/l/54774-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/entertainment/l/54774-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (2)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/entertainment/l/54774/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><item><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 3/19/2008 9:20:33 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q17</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/54774/1/#q15"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>browntrout</b>&#160;:&#160;...just be prepared to beat someone with it when it comes back down.</i></div>Excellent response]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 3/19/2008 9:17:40 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q16</link><description><![CDATA[I felt really bad about it, but it's one of those things you just can't help. To quote Ray Stanz, 'It just....popped in there'. <br/>But when I first heard about the huge Tsunami in Sri Lanka in December 05, the first thing I thought of was &quot;I hope ACC is okay&quot;. <br/>Don't get me wrong, I was also sad for all those who died then (and still am) but for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about ACC the whole time. I guess it's just because he's the only person I've ever heard of in the whole effected region, but every time I'd hear news on it I kept hoping they'd mention he was okay. <br/><br/>I read the 2001 series as well as RAMA, and the man was clearly a genius. I knew he'd also been very involved in science and technology (though I didn't know he was instrumental in the invention of Radar), and I know he worked with Sierra in developing the RAMA computer game. I never played that, but I heard from someone who did that the degree of scientific innate intellegence someone has to have to beat that game was unreal. I always wanted to try that game, ever since I first read an article about it years ago in Sierra's magazine, where they had a story on the time they traveled to meet Clarke in Sri Lanka, only to have their hotel bombed by a terrorist. (they were okay).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[browntrout @ 3/19/2008 7:10:07 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q15</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/books/l/54774/1/#q14"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>gratheo</b>&#160;:&#160;Wow. At least he lived to a ripe old age...<br/>I'm going to throw a bone up into the air while humming 'The Blue Danube' in his honor.</i></div>...just be prepared to beat someone with it when it comes back down.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[gratheo @ 3/19/2008 4:40:37 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q14</link><description><![CDATA[Wow. At least he lived to a ripe old age...<br/>I'm going to throw a bone up into the air while humming 'The Blue Danube' in his honor.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 3/19/2008 3:49:01 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q13</link><description><![CDATA[It's not often I'll pitch in to threads about dead people, but since I first became aware of him (Mysterious World) he has been a fairly constant presence.<br/><br/><i>&quot;Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy&quot;</i><br/><br/>He's just finding out what's over that next hill now.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 3/19/2008 12:41:53 AM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q12</link><description><![CDATA[Best writer since Shakespeare...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[thebluefrog @ 3/18/2008 11:32:54 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q11</link><description><![CDATA[I read it on my slashdot rss before I made it over here....<br/><br/><br/>/sad]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 3/18/2008 10:09:29 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q10</link><description><![CDATA[NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blankspace73 @ 3/18/2008 9:03:58 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q9</link><description><![CDATA[The science fiction world has lost a major player today. He and his workings will indeed be sorely missed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[steelshooter @ 3/18/2008 8:57:10 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q8</link><description><![CDATA[I will begin my memorial reading binge tonight.<br/><br/>RIP to a great influence on my life.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[psycmoe @ 3/18/2008 8:50:00 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q7</link><description><![CDATA[Sad girl.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[tigertony @ 3/18/2008 8:06:01 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q6</link><description><![CDATA[And so begins his Final Odyssey. He will be sorely missed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[tragluk @ 3/18/2008 7:52:15 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q5</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><i>Along with his DNA sample, Clarke enclosed a note with a brief handwritten wish addressed to that far-flung future: &quot;Fare well, my clone.&quot;</i></div>:)  Always had an eye on the future that one.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[donteatpoop @ 3/18/2008 6:47:44 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q4</link><description><![CDATA[No no no!!! <br/><br/>At least he accomplished a lot in his life.<br/><br/>Rest in Peace.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[suebe @ 3/18/2008 6:47:16 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q3</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/books/l/54774/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>dollyllama</b> : One of, perhaps <i>the</i>, greatest Sci Fi writer of all time.  What a legacy he leaves.</i></div>Agreed. I love everything he did. His legacy does live on, as you said, dolly.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[dollyllama @ 3/18/2008 6:46:31 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54774/1/rss0_91.rss#q2</link><description><![CDATA[One of, perhaps <i>the</i>, greatest Sci Fi writer of all time.  What a legacy he leaves.]]></description></item></channel></rss>