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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Optimus_Prime" data-source="post: 6974550" data-attributes="member: 223603">My favorite person z sir Author C ClarkClarke was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minehead" target="_blank">Minehead</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset" target="_blank">Somerset</a>, England.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-obittimes-3" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-obittimes-3</a> As a boy he enjoyed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy" target="_blank">stargazing</a> and reading old American science fiction <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine" target="_blank">pulp magazines</a>. After secondary school and studying at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Huish_College,_Taunton" target="_blank">Huish's Grammar School, Taunton</a>, he was unable to afford a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University" target="_blank">university</a> education and got a job as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditor" target="_blank">auditor</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension" target="_blank">pensions</a> section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Education" target="_blank">Board of Education</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-13" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-13</a> During the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" target="_blank">Second World War</a> he served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" target="_blank">Royal Air Force</a> as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar" target="_blank">radar</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" target="_blank">Battle of Britain</a>. Clarke spent most of his wartime service working on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Controlled_Approach" target="_blank">Ground Controlled Approach</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide_Path" target="_blank">Glide Path</a>, his only non-science-fiction novel. Although GCA did not see much practical use in the war, it proved vital to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Airlift" target="_blank">Berlin Airlift</a> of 1948–1949 after several years of development. Clarke initially served in the ranks, and was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal#United_Kingdom" target="_blank">Corporal</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Yatesbury" target="_blank">RAF Yatesbury</a>. He was commissioned as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Officer" target="_blank">Pilot Officer</a> (Technical Branch) on 27 May 1943.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-14" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-14</a> He was promoted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Officer" target="_blank">Flying Officer</a> on 27 November 1943.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-15" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-15</a> He was appointed chief training instructor at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Honiley" target="_blank">RAF Honiley</a> and was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization" target="_blank">demobilised</a> with the rank of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Lieutenant" target="_blank">Flight Lieutenant</a>. After the war he earned a first-class <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_degree" target="_blank">degree</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" target="_blank">mathematics</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics" target="_blank">physics</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College_London" target="_blank">King's College London</a>. specialist and was involved in the early warning radar defence system, which contributed to the RAF's success during the  (GCA) radar as documented in the semi-autobiographical  instructor on radar at No 9 Radio School,  In the postwar years, Clarke became the Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946-1947 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-16" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-16</a> and again from 1951-1953<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-17" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-17</a>. Although he was not the originator of the concept of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_satellite" target="_blank">geostationary satellites</a>, one of his most important contributions may be his idea that they would be ideal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication" target="_blank">telecommunications</a> relays. He advanced this idea in a paper privately circulated among the core technical members of the BIS in 1945. The concept was published in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_World" target="_blank">Wireless World</a> in October of that year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-etrelays-18" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-etrelays-18</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-wirelessworld-19" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-wirelessworld-19</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-wirelessworld2-20" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-wirelessworld2-20</a>Clarke also wrote a number of non-fiction books describing the technical details and societal implications of rocketry and space flight. The most notable of these may be The Exploration of Space (1951) and The Promise of Space (1968). In recognition of these contributions the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit" target="_blank">geostationary orbit</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union" target="_blank">International Astronomical Union</a> as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_Orbit" target="_blank">Clarke Orbit</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-foundation-21" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-foundation-21</a> 36,000 kilometres (22,000 mi) above the equator is officially recognized by the  On a trip to Florida in 1953<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-22" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-22</a> Clarke met and quickly married Marilyn Mayfield, a 22-year-old American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorcee" target="_blank">divorcee</a> with a young son. They separated permanently after six months, although the divorce was not finalised until 1964.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-McAleer-23" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-McAleer-23</a> "The marriage was incompatible from the beginning", says Clarke.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-McAleer-23" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-McAleer-23</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" target="_blank">Stanley Kubrick</a>, John Baxter cites Clarke's homosexuality as a reason why Clarke relocated, due to more tolerant laws in regards to homosexuality in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-24" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-24</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalists" target="_blank">Journalists</a> who inquired of Clarke whether he was gay were told, "No, merely mildly cheerful."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-obitnyt-25" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-obitnyt-25</a> However, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock" target="_blank">Michael Moorcock</a> Clarke never remarried but was close to Leslie Ekanayake, who died in 1977. In his biography of  has written Everyone knew he was gay. In the 1950s I'd go out drinking with his boyfriend. We met his proteges, western and eastern, and their families: people who had only the most generous praise for his kindness. Self-absorbed he might be, and a teetotaller, but an impeccable gent through and through.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-26" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-26</a> Moorcook's assertion is not supported by other reports, although in an interview in the July 1986 issue of Playboy magazine<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-27" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-27</a> Clarke stated "Of course. Who hasn't?" when asked if he has had bisexual experiences.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-28" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-28</a> Clarke also maintained a vast collection of manuscripts and personal memoirs, maintained by his brother Fred Clarke in Taunton, Somerset, England, and referred to as the "Clarkives." Clarke has said that some of his private diaries will not be published until 30 years after his death. When asked why they were sealed up, he answered "'Well, there might be all sorts of embarrassing things in them".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_note-29</a></blockquote>

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