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He invented the concept of the [[communications satellite]]<ref>[http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelays.html 'Extra-Terrestrial Relays' Wireless World, 1945]</ref> and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 [[Stanley Kubrick]] movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Both the movie and the book were based on "The Sentinel", a short story written by Clark in 1948. He lived in [[Sri Lanka]].

He invented the concept of the [[communications satellite]]<ref>[http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelays.html 'Extra-Terrestrial Relays' Wireless World, 1945]</ref> and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 [[Stanley Kubrick]] movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Both the movie and the book were based on "The Sentinel", a short story written by Clark in 1948. He lived in [[Sri Lanka]].

Clarke subscribed to the idea of [[panspermia]] to account for the the origin of life on earth.  He claimed that he was unable to decide if creationists are "really mad, or only pretending to be mad.  He was a self-proclaimed atheist and left written instructions that his funeral have "no religious rites of any kind."

Clarke subscribed to the idea of [[panspermia]] to account for the origin of life on earth.  He claimed that he was unable to decide if creationists are "really mad, or only pretending to be mad.  He was a self-proclaimed atheist and left written instructions that his funeral have "no religious rites of any kind."

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