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Originally Posted by tsgreer
Hey, it just so turns out that "NASA has detected the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded -- a massive burst of energy 7.5 billion light years away that could be seen with the naked eye from Earth" on the same day that Arthur C. Clarke passed away.
That seems a pretty fitting tribute. Here's the news article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080321...qyaZ5hsGlxieAA |
Interesting: As I seem to remember, one of Clarke's short stories was about a future planetary survey team that discovered the remains of a dead civilization, which apparently thrived until its star went nova. After some date-checking, they realized that the light from the star's explosion would have reached Earth just in time to have guided a certain three wise men to Jerusalem...