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Science fiction writer, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at his home on the island nation of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

Clarke was best known in popular culture as the author of the story that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but his greatest contribution to technology is creating the conceptual framework for geostationary satellites

 

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