Last week I shared with you a historical paper by the English writer Clarke in which he described the GEO orbit. France has also experienced a similar prodigy. Like Clarke, his novels are always well documented, generally set in the not-so-far future, and imagine the technologies of the time. He is one of the most famous authors in history, and he is the second most translated author in a foreign language after Agatha Christie…You have probably found him, he is Jules Verne....
Today I want to share with you a little discovery. Arthur Charles Clarke, born in 1917 in the United Kingdom and died on 19 March 2008 (at the age of 90) in Sri Lanka, was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurologist, TV presenter, underwater explorer and inventor. In 1945, just after the end of the WWII and 12 years before the first satellite in history was put into orbit, Sputnik 1, Clarke published an article in the Wireless Wold Magazine, a british electronics journal, in which he proposed a completely surrealistic project:...