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Actually Arthur C Clarke first wrote about communications satellites in Wireless World in the 1940s, initially though letters (here is one from 1945, (PDF), see page 58).  Later he wrote a full article in Wireless World, which gave all the necessary calculations to determine the height of orbit needed to provide a geostationary satellite, etc; I have a paper copy of that article somewhere, but I think it's at work (I couldn't find it on the net).

The point is that these were not works of fiction; these were the groundwork for the real thing.

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Just think; if Microsoft added 'You hereby grant us a license to print money' to their EULA, it wouldn't change its meaning a bit.

Terry

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• Arthur C Clarke's Article - Authored by: TerryC on Saturday, December 01 2012 @ 02:06 PM EST