Mysteries of outer space

The article you ran on Arthur C. Clarke, Sir Arthur C. Clarke: The top sci-fi author (The Jakarta Post. Jan. 7, 2001) and an earlier article, the title and date of which I forget, are very interesting.

2001: A Space Odyssey has now "matured", and, the way it was with Orwell's 1984, one can see which of the forecasted events have come true. The geostationary station and the supercomputer HAL may still be forthcoming. I think, however, that the most intriguing event forecast in The Sentinel is the discovery of the monolith, an alien artifact left on the moon by visitors from outer space, to find out, among other things, whether man is capable of leaving his cradle (Earth) to engage in space flight (so the story says).

In an article titled Arthur C. Clarke: Prophet of the space age in an issue of Reader's Digest some 40 years ago, Arthur C. Clarke expresses his belief that man will encounter intelligent life if man ventures far enough into space. I think that the proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence and subsequent encounters with these ETI will surely rock man's cultural foundations, and man will have to redefine his existence.

Nice articles, why don't you run more articles of this kind?

RUDI WILSON

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