This just didnt make the news here for some unknown reason.
Arthur C Clarke was quite the visionary and the author. He had a profound effect on my life. I grew up in the outback away from the tv, movies, magazines, crap, etc. When I moved to Perth the first ever movie I saw was 2001: A Space Odyssey (it was being repeated because of Close Encounters, Star Wars, etc). I can still hear the drums now. For this nOOb from the desert 2001: A Space Odyssey burned a memory on my mind that I doubt most children of the television would understand.
Yu fo tong zai mate