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September 05, 2005

The Science in Science Fiction
Science fiction writers—well, good science fiction writers—rarely make up their science out of whole cloth. One reason is that a surprisingly large percentage are scientists or engineers themselves, and even those who aren't tend to know a lot about this stuff. It was, after all, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who wrote the first technical paper that suggested placing communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit—the altitude where satellites take exactly one day to circle Earth, staying stationary in relation to it. # posted by masquerader @ 11:06 ::

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